Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Wow, and to think I like my VFX & VFX-SD's feel better than anything
I've found more recently in the stores.  Maybe because I find it's
more like a piano, the resistance to movement is more or less constant
from the top to bottom of travel; other keyboards seem to increase
resistance the closer you get to the bottom of the key travel, as if
you're compressing a spring.

To each his own, I guess.

--> Steve

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:15:20AM -0700, john bluhm wrote:

> I also think the key action is too heavy. I think the key travel
> distance is too deep for my taste, too.
> 
> What I did was shorten the key travel distance by an eigth inch. I
> did this by attaching pieces of rubber (which I carefully cut to
> size) to the key stops. The shorter key travel allows me to play
> much faster than I could with the standard keyboard.
> 
> As for getting rid of the stiffness, I took a screw driver and
> twisted the springs open until I liked the 'feel'. I twisted open
> each key spring at three places - that yielded a touch that feels
> very much like an old Hammond [sp?] organ. Hope that helps.

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