I know this has been discussed before but I'm bringing it up again.
I have a Kurzweil K2600X (88 note weighted), and I just find that the action is very limited and not at all what I would *really like*. Hands up anyone else who feels the same about their keyboard.
All i want is a dedicated USB (NO midi needed)88 note weighted midi controller with pitch, mod, maybe a few sliders and a couple of buttons (play stop and record for example), where the primary focus is on EXCELLENT and highly ACCURATE action. Also, for VSL a breath controller would be cool, and a three pedal piano style pedal controller for piano.
I use Ivory Piano, which is a great piano synth/library. I emailed their tech support asking for advice. They said they USED the K2600 in creating Ivory just because it was so accurately linear. Mine isn't. They said get it calibrated, service people said it's fine. I haven't used the internal sounds, synthesizer or sample option or *anything* else on it for years now.
The action I'm looking for is the feel and touch of a steinway grand - enough response and resistance to feel like a grand but not overly heavy, and not as light as an upright of course. Doesn't any body make something like this now? With Ivory you have a real alternative to owning a grand piano (if you can't afford one).
Next quarm: MIDI spec. How useless is 127 points of velocity?! here we are discussing 24bit vs 16bit and the thousands and thousands of velocity points there, and we are playing in with just 127!! Is it just me? Am I ignorant or is that just really redundant!!? I realise of course that audio is different to midi but to my mind the MIDI velocity should be *at least* 12 bit/16bit at minimum and that includes mod and pitch wheel.
So who else would like a midi controller as I've described with those basic features that *ignores* midi spec and just prints it's own spec through USB at 16bit resolution? They would have to re-write logic for us of course but hey that's not a big deal!
Miklos.
I have a Kurzweil K2600X (88 note weighted), and I just find that the action is very limited and not at all what I would *really like*. Hands up anyone else who feels the same about their keyboard.
All i want is a dedicated USB (NO midi needed)88 note weighted midi controller with pitch, mod, maybe a few sliders and a couple of buttons (play stop and record for example), where the primary focus is on EXCELLENT and highly ACCURATE action. Also, for VSL a breath controller would be cool, and a three pedal piano style pedal controller for piano.
I use Ivory Piano, which is a great piano synth/library. I emailed their tech support asking for advice. They said they USED the K2600 in creating Ivory just because it was so accurately linear. Mine isn't. They said get it calibrated, service people said it's fine. I haven't used the internal sounds, synthesizer or sample option or *anything* else on it for years now.
The action I'm looking for is the feel and touch of a steinway grand - enough response and resistance to feel like a grand but not overly heavy, and not as light as an upright of course. Doesn't any body make something like this now? With Ivory you have a real alternative to owning a grand piano (if you can't afford one).
Next quarm: MIDI spec. How useless is 127 points of velocity?! here we are discussing 24bit vs 16bit and the thousands and thousands of velocity points there, and we are playing in with just 127!! Is it just me? Am I ignorant or is that just really redundant!!? I realise of course that audio is different to midi but to my mind the MIDI velocity should be *at least* 12 bit/16bit at minimum and that includes mod and pitch wheel.
So who else would like a midi controller as I've described with those basic features that *ignores* midi spec and just prints it's own spec through USB at 16bit resolution? They would have to re-write logic for us of course but hey that's not a big deal!
Miklos.