From Brian Willoughby Sent Wed, Oct 24th 2018, 04:32
From Brian Willoughby Sent Wed, Oct 24th 2018, 04:32
On Oct 23, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Alex Timchak <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Nicer keybed Nicer? =E2=80=A6 or just closer to a piano? For those of us who never studied piano, piano action is not nicer. It = might be familiar for those who play a different instrument, but I = prefer to consider the synthesizer as its own instrument. Some amount of = weighting is crucial, just for the ergonomics of playing an instrument = that responds well, physically, but in my opinion the piano suffers from = its purely mechanic heritage. I=E2=80=99m not saying that people can=E2=80= =99t get around the limitations of piano action and then even learn to = prefer it, but without the prior bias I don=E2=80=99t think a synthesist = would naturally choose piano action. =E2=80=A6 or did you mean nicer just because it has an extra octave or = so of keys? > and 32 paraphonic voices, but really wouldn't you think to maximize = the sample side they would want poly aftertouch? Or is there still no = current manufacturer of poly aftertouch? To my knowledge, Ensoniq was the last (and only?) manufacturer to build = poly aftertouch keyboards on a large scale. That=E2=80=99s quite = significant, since basically all synths are manufactured with a keybed = from a third party. There have been other polyphonic keyboards, but I = don=E2=80=99t get the impression that any of them sold in very high = quantities. There may be a modern poly aftertouch keyboard being made - and I forget = the brand - but my impression is that they=E2=80=99re far from mass = production. Maybe this is the VAX MIDI keyboard? Anyway, I once requested a =E2=80=9CList of synths that respond to = Polyphonic Aftertouch=E2=80=9D and the two responses that came through = only listed a total of two synths. It would be nice to see a =E2=80=9CList= of synths throughout history with Poly AT keyboards." > Way out of my league and hate to be critical but it just seems to be = begging for that extra expression possibility...at least they said MPE = should be supported soon. But kinda defeats the purpose of fancier = keys... >=20 > https://www.sequential.com/product/prophet-xl/ I sure hope that the Prophet XL responds to MIDI polyphonic aftertouch = already. It=E2=80=99s been part of the MIDI standard since the = beginning. In addition, I don=E2=80=99t think there=E2=80=99s much about = MPE that a three-decade-old MIDI synth wouldn=E2=80=99t be able to = handle out of the box, assuming you=E2=80=99re willing to open the = manual and make a few settings. New synths might not be marked with = =E2=80=9CMPE=E2=80=9D but you should be able to get everything working = with some reading and configuration. Brian Willoughby