Quite frankly, I hated the feel of the m-Audio and edirol
keyboards.....they have too much horizontal movement in the key bed and
the sharp edges of them would shred the skin off your fingers if you
were doing a gliss or a slide.....I have a SQ80 for poly pressure and
whats not the same as a cs80s aftertouch is the speed the SQ80 takes to
revert from pressure to no pressure(it is too slow on the on the return
to no aftertouch)Now if Alesis could change the good channel aftertouch
they have to poly after touch, not only would it benefit all of their
keyboards since they all can receive poly aftertouch , but it would make
all of the software that claim to have it as a modulator ,a bigger
prize.....I think Alesis owes me a favour......
David Rogoff wrote:
> Wavecomputer360 wrote:
> > Hi Tim, hi Laurie,
> >
> > I think you hit the nail on the head... it´s the performance of the
> > instrument, the way controls are laid out and the way the machine
> responds
> > to you as a player which makes the CS80 stand out. And this is why
> all
> > virtual emulations are pointless as the sum of it all makes it the
> > instrument it is, not only the sound generation (which is rather
> simple,
> > compared with, say, and Oberheim Xpander and such). Like Peter
> Forrest once
> > said, other polysynths would wipe the floor with the CS80 when it
> comes to
> > modulation routings and such but the CS80 would blow them all away
> when it
> > comes to richness of sound and sheer performance power.
> >
> Most definitely! Once again, the great things about the CS-80, for
> me,
> are the feel and poly-aftertouch of the keyboard, the ribbon
> (including
> being able to sweep down to D.C.), the choice of sustain I & II (for
> nice mono/sustained sounds on a poly-synth), the ring modulator, and
> having all the performance knobs. I like the sound, but to me it's
> not
> the big deal. Now, give me an Oberheim 8-voice SEM box controlled
> from
> a CS-80. That instrument could caress like a feather or kill a
> tyrannosaurus from a mile away...
>
> As I've mentioned, I picked up a MIDIBoard and a Roland A-50 a while
> ago
> to try and have a poly-aftertouch MIDI controller, but I'm still
> working
> on restoring the A-50. How do we get Edirol (=Roland, who made the
> A-50
> and A-80) or M-Audio to add this? Their MIDI/USB keyboards are
> getting
> nicer all the time with more programmable knobs and sliders. How do
> we
> convince them that there's a market (other than a few dozen of us
> here)?
>
> David
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