Doepfer

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Bakis Sirros 
<synth_freak_2000@y...> wrote:
> dieter say:
> "<snip> Especially many people playing the TKB were a little bit 
dissapointed as it is much more difficult to play the TKB than a 
normal keyboard as one has no tactile reponse (like the white and 
black keys and the pressed key on a normal keyboard). You have to 
look at your fingers very carefully and cannot play blind like a
normal keyboard. Anyway - we will manufacture the TKB but I hope that 
the users will not complain about exactly this behaviour." <snip>

Back when I worked for the US distributor of EMS gear, we contsantly 
heard this about the KS touch sensitive "keyboard".  Usually the 
comments came from people less interested in synthesis and more 
interested in live playing of preset or standard type sounds.

BUT - this is a musical instrument, you have to practice it to master 
it.  I *love* the KS, I don't think of it as a keyboard at all, it is 
a wonderful tactile way to control pitch and timbre and timing.  The 
skill set I developed to play it bears no relationship to the finger 
excersizes I used to learn to pla piano of even play leads on my 
minimoog.  Expecting it to be similar to keys with mechancical action 
is like thinking a flute is pretty much the same as a trombone, you 
just have to know how to exhale.

I *really* *really* want this new product.