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Re: aftertouch problem

2012-03-21 by Fabio

thanks a lot for the detailed reply, I hope there will be a fix for this soon...

sky

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
>
> no they work of off coil boards as magnetic feilds the harder you press the high the metal plate is to the coils and a stronger magnetic field is sensed and that information is sent to the scanner cpu then to the uart and then to cpu
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> there rubbers under 2 sets off stops the botoom ones which the ke hits for velocity and are also for pressing hard down onto get hard over time
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> im am getting quotes from a few manufacturers for making new ones in the uk for replacements
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> whell these get hardened from time and oxygen so that they lose the elasticity so that it take the force of broken fingers to get a response from them i notice its worse on the sd1 than it is on the vfx and eps16+ and sq80 which seem to fair better
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> i have resorted to setting it to the lowest settings in the system page
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> some people have cut them down a little bit to allow more response but i think its time we found a permanent solution with a better material than the one used for the sd1 models as my asr10 does not suffer the same nore does my ts10 or 16+ or my sq80 or my vfx-sd
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> but everyone including myself have noticed how much harder it is to trigger the sd1 poly at
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> and as seeing that these keyboards are the best for it and no new tech ever offers it then these make grat keyboard controllers for doing poly at including new synths that recieve it but dont have it in there keyboards
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> as most are using fatar keybeds and they dont provide the electronics for producing poly at
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Fabio 
>   To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:38 PM
>   Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] aftertouch problem
> 
> 
>     
>   Hi there, I have an SD1/32 and the aftertouch is barely usable (black keys works a little better)... is there a potentiometer or something inside the synth that can be tweaked? my kawai k3 has 2 "screw" type potentiometers inside that I tweaked to obtain a decent feel with it...
> 
>   Sky
>

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