Weighted Keyboard - what do they feel like?

[punkdISCO]

Morning Andrew 

Yeah, I won't be getting the weighted version. Apart from it being possible I won't like it, it's even more expensive than the expensive s61...

Paul
London 
www.punkdisco.co.uk

> On 20 Mar 2016, at 20:45, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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