hi synchro,
i totally agree with you on this!it SHOULD be
different/difficult to play after all!
bakis.



--- synchro1 < synchro1@... > wrote:

> --- 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.
>
>

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