All,
>>I've never really been that keen on the AN1x's keyboard 'feel'- I've been
>
>Darn right. Only keyboard I've had with a worse action was an Akai AX-60 - I
>think it had no felt under the keys so it was always literally "banging" on the
>keyboard when you played. Sometimes Yamaha is infuriating in their designs, you
>get this "What were they thinking?" feeling about certain things. I have a
>Yamaha A3000 sampler which uses SCSI 1 to communicate! Talk about slow... 1984
>technology in a unit released in 1997. What were they thinking? But, the AN1x
>is still one of the best VA synths for the money out there.
One man's junk is another man's treasure, I guess. I've always liked the feel of my AN1x's keys. Much better, IMHO, than the D-50 I used before that -- I was breaking sharps at the rate of one/month! Even though I could do the repairs myself, the costs were getting significant.
I should say that I'm predominantly an organist, rather than a pianist, so weighted keys are not a priority for me. Besides analog synth sounds -- and the Annie's keys feel just fine for that -- I tend to use the AN1x to control (in rough order of frequency) Clavinet (external module), brass (external), second manual on the organ, guitar sounds (external), Rhodes (external) and finally, acoustic piano. The last two are a stretch on the Annie, but the rest are fine.
Regards,
-BW
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