[AH] Re: [sdiy] replacement keyboards available

[Andre Majorel]

On 2003-03-24 11:15 -0800, greg montalbano wrote:
> At 08:01 PM 3/24/03 +0100, Andre wrote:
> >On 2003-03-24 18:58 +0100, jhaible at debitel.net wrote:
> >>
> >> Are these rubber dome keyboards, or metal contacts?
> >
> >Metal. Motif-6 keyboards look and feel exactly like DX7 keyboards.
> >If you open a DX7, you'll see that each key has two contacts at
> >the end of thin springy metal blades. The feel is very different
> >from that of a rubber dome keyboard.
> 
> This sounds very similar to the (unjustly underrated) Korg DW8000 
> keyboard---same kind of metal contacts (although the Korg also has those 
> metal weights inside the plastic keys).

So do the DX7/Motif and the SL161. The (cheaper) SL61 doesn't.
I've tried one and... well, I hope the SL161 is better than
that. As for the DW8000, I haven't touched one since when they
first came out so I can't compare.

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André Majorel <amajorel at teaser.fr>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/