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Subject: FW: [motm] keyboard question

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2001-08-29

Yeah, this is a good point. Ages ago my master keyboard was "sludgy" and
something just "wasn't right." Then I thought I had fried it because I was
only getting 4 voices out of it instead of the 8 that I was supposed to.
Turned out I had a very subtle MIDI loop going on in my system, and once
that was fixed everything was fine.



-----Original Message-----
From: alt-mode [mailto:alt_mode@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 9:11 AM
To: josephcasbarian@...; motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [motm] keyboard question

Joseph,

You might want to check the configuration on your Hammond. I have used mine
to
control my MOTM and modular stuff through an Expressionist without any
problems. I
have managed to get the XK-2 setup munged up enough that it was spewing out
lots of
garbage MIDI messages that could certainly clog up any device and generally
bog down
performance.

I have not used the velocity sensitivity of the XK-2 to provide a CV for the
MOTM
stuff so I don't know if there is an issue there but I have used it with
other MIDI
devices and the velocity sensitivity seems to be OK. The XK-2 does not
support MIDI
after-touch so you can't map that to a CV.

I hope that helps.

Eric


--- josephcasbarian@... wrote:
> Hi group,
> I don't know very much about MIDI, but i'm using a Hammond xk-2(b-3
> clone)and find it to be unsatisfactory. As my controler, it runs into
> an expressionist for the CV, but it seems kind of slugish. It seems
> like there is some sort of delay in the signal. I have to keep my
> playing very deliberate, pressing the keys down hard and simple. What
> I mean by all that, is that it isn't very sensitive. It sucks as a
> performance instrument used to control my MOTM. Is it the conversion,
> or that I have two independent CVs out? Is there a better keyboard
> for the Expressionist? Or is it to be expected?
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph Casbarian
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