Weighted Keyboard - what do they feel like?

[Andrew Tarpinian]

There is reason that synth action exists, my guess is that weighted wouldn't be suitable for your style of playing. 

Or your can just go Roli...

> On Mar 20, 2016, at 3:45 PM, foRUMS 4 punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jay
> 
> I think I will not got for the weighted option as I have never had such a keyboard.  It might feel odd suddenly having a weighted keyboard as my main controller..
> 
> ..Just wish the S61 was not so expensive...   :(
> 
> Paul
> London
> www.punkdisco.co.uk
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Vaughan (ibisum) [mailto:ibisum at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 19 March 2016 18:18
>> To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
>> Subject: Re: Weighted Keyboard - what do they feel like?
>> 
>>> 
>>> I’m thinking about the NI S61 for a main controller but: what would the S88
>> “weighted” keyboard feel like?  I’ve never tried a weighted keyboard
>> before..  I have a piano; would it just feel exactly like my piano?
>>> L    << me asking a very dumb question….
>>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> It ‘should’ feel like a piano - these weighted keys mean that you’ll feel a
>> similar force coming up as going down - it literally means the keys are
>> levered, like in a piano.  This provides a subtle degree of responsiveness in
>> that the key travel will have a standard counterpoint to your action.
>> 
>> At the moment I have a Virus Indigo2 on top of my CLP31 electric piano,
>> which has weighted keys.  I absolutely love this combination right now, its a
>> delight on the arthritis.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ;
>> --
>> Jay Vaughan
>> ibisum at gmail.com
> 
> 
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