From PHILLH@TOWERS.COM Tue Jun 25 07:19:03 2002
Subject:Re: Roland VK-8

--- In CloneWheel@y..., "elggobo" wrote:
> Just tried a VK-8 for 2nd time - although through headphones.
Great
> keyboard. A couple of gripes though - wondering if anyone else has
> had same issues:
>
> - have to push in all DBs and turn off percussion to have 'other
> tones' on their own
>
> - When playing percussively, the keys double trigger. If the key
is
> moving back up fast enough, it rebounds against the upstop and
plays
> a note again (albeit a short one).
>
> I'll be interested to see if Roland provides an update to fix this
or
> some kind of workaround...
>
> James

Thank god, I'm not crazy. I thought that I was the only one who
noticed this problem on the VK-8. I've tried two, and both of them
had the double-trigger worse than any CX-3 I've tried. In the VK-8 I
think that it makes the keyboard almost unuseable.