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Hello, please is it possible to know since when it features the Fatar TP/40GH keybed ?
I have read that pre 2011 versions used another model (TP10/MDR)

On the same forum few users had complained for a supposed clunking noise while triggering the keys at low volume control room, reason of this would be the “case” resonance. Can anyone comment this? I have no chance to test this master keyboard but it would surprise me if the physical noise would sounds unbearably loud: couldn’t the case be filled with antiresonance material? Or those people are used to play as quite as a laptop speaker? The instrument is also on sale without case, few bucks less than the normal price… is this option for those who find the keybed so acoustically clumsy maybe? 

Is the USB interface class compliant (no need of driver installation), as usual on other Doepfer Midi interfaces?

Owners feedback on this instrument “at large” would be precious to me, any other consideration is heartily welcome.

Best regards
Diego

Hello,

you find my comments written inline.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2018 11:39
> An: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: [Doepfer_a100] Doepfer LMK4+ Master keyboard specs and reviews
>
>
> Hello, please is it possible to know since when it features the
> Fatar TP/40GH keybed ?
> I have read that pre 2011 versions used another model (TP10/MDR)

Please contact our keyboard specialist Matthias Marass
(keyboards@doepfer.de). He knows such details.

> On the same forum few users had complained for a supposed
> clunking noise while triggering the keys at low volume control
> room, reason of this would be the “case” resonance. Can anyone
> comment this?

The LMK keyboards use the FATAR hammer mechanics TP/40GH (or TP10/MDR in
older versions). It's impossible to built a hammer mechanics that does not
generate an audible noise. It depends upon the user's sensitivity if he
feels that this is too loud.

> I have no chance to test this master keyboard but
> it would surprise me if the physical noise would sounds
> unbearably loud: couldn’t the case be filled with antiresonance
> material? Or those people are used to play as quite as a laptop
> speaker? The instrument is also on sale without case, few bucks
> less than the normal price… is this option for those who find the
> keybed so acoustically clumsy maybe?
>
> Is the USB interface class compliant (no need of driver
> installation), as usual on other Doepfer Midi interfaces?

Please contact our software engineer Christian Assall (software@doepfer.de)
or our keyboard specialist Matthias Marass (keyboards@doepfer.de). They know
such details.

> Owners feedback on this instrument “at large” would be precious
> to me, any other consideration is heartily welcome.
>
> Best regards
> Diego
>
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> Posted by: Diego Ragnini <diegora@free.fr>
> ------------------------------------
>

Just to clarify 
After my enquiry on this list I have had the chance to try an LMK2+ 8 years old and the keybed was absolutely silent, they keybed soft and responsive
So the rumours I had found on a forum about resonant clunky keybed, on my opinion, are just rant. 

Yesterday I have tried a Studiologic SL88 Studio, mounting the fatal TP100LR, and the keybed sounds noisy and even much harder than the LMK2+ 

> Il giorno 06 dic 2018, alle ore 11:38, Diego Ragnini diegora@free.fr [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello, please is it possible to know since when it features the Fatar TP/40GH keybed ?
> I have read that pre 2011 versions used another model (TP10/MDR)
> 
> On the same forum few users had complained for a supposed clunking noise while triggering the keys at low volume control room, reason of this would be the “case” resonance. Can anyone comment this? I have no chance to test this master keyboard but it would surprise me if the physical noise would sounds unbearably loud: couldn’t the case be filled with antiresonance material? Or those people are used to play as quite as a laptop speaker? The instrument is also on sale without case, few bucks less than the normal price… is this option for those who find the keybed so acoustically clumsy maybe? 
> 
> Is the USB interface class compliant (no need of driver installation), as usual on other Doepfer Midi interfaces?
> 
> Owners feedback on this instrument “at large” would be precious to me, any other consideration is heartily welcome.
> 
> Best regards
> Diego
> 
>