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hey
Please no flame war over my post...

I am with you and I am sure the rest here understand the need for aftertouch. I hate it as much as you to go back and add this in the midi. Lucky for me, I don't do live performance. I do all my stuff in the studio and with much time. I see your point very clearly.

(boy if I knew this was going to do this on this group, I never posted the asking...)


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Metlay 
  To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:22 AM
  Subject: RE: [AN1x] external midi controller


  (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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