(Bruce, please sprinkle smilies throughout as needed. I'm going to rant here,
and they slow down my typing.)
Bruce Wahler said:
> Mike,
>
> The PCR-80 has POLYPHONIC aftertouch! :^)
In the same sense as the PCR-30 and PCR-50, yeah. Which is in the same sense
that the PCRs and the Evolutions and the M-Audio keyboards have any aftertouch
at all. Namely, you can assign the data to a slider and put it into your
sequencer that way.
Screw that.
As a trained organist (not pianist, ORGANIST) who played instruments like the
Multimoog, Liberation, and CS80 in their heyday, I would be far happier with a
keyboard that had aftertouch and no velocity than a keyboard with velocity and
no aftertouch. Being able to sprinkle the data in later, event by event,
hardly constitutes performance.
Someone had a very funny April Fool article a year or two ago with a
photoshopped picture of a MIDI controller with one single key, that used
mapping to change the key's MIDI note number on the fly, arguing that it
wouldn't REALLY slow anyone down, right?
Well, there may be a gazillion people out there who are perfectly happy with
velocity and no aftertouch on their controllers and who think only of
aftertouch as data you paint in later with a mouse (the tyranny of the
piano--BAH!), but I'm not one of them and I refuse to be one of them. I demand
aftertouch: good usable springy comfortable well-designed reliable aftertouch!
I am happy with mono ("channel pressure data"), but it would be nice to get
back into poly again even if it means retraining: I haven't had a Prophet-T8
in my studio for over a decade.
mike
--
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"Well actually, pedant isn't a verb." (n. rothwell)
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