Weighted Keyboard - what do they feel like?

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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.
> 
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> ;
> --
> Jay Vaughan
> ibisum at gmail.com
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