From dougb415@yahoo.com Tue Jun 10 22:57:39 2003
Subject:Re: Electro Velocity response experiment

Hey wait! I was gonna ask him the same darn thing! I'd part with my VK-7 in a second to get an Electro....

-Doug

Damon Fibraio wrote:
Hi. Want to trade your electro for my vk7? Unfortunately, Ilive in the U.S,
and don't know if you need the converter thingie to switch between power
supplies. Let me know.

At 06:02 PM 6/10/2003, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>I've been trying out an Anatek Pocket Curve that I just got from Mark
>(thanks again Mark).
>
>Its interesting but ultimatly not enough to compensate for the damage
>playing the Electro seems to have done to my fingers. Here's a quick
>synopsis:-
>
>Problem:
>To get the Electro piano sounds to,
>a) cut through the rest of the band
>b) sound, tonaly, sharper
>c) try to 'compress' the velocity response so that there are no sudden
>loud notes
>My subconcious way of achieving the above has been to really 'lay into'
>the keyboard. The result has been to cause some serious and painful
>damage to my fingers. I was not sure that it was from playing the Electro
>so I had a piano specialist video tape me playing each of my keyboards
>(Electro, Trinity, Hammond X2, Hammond L122). When we sat and carefuly
>analysed the tapes you can see that I hold my fingers tighter, harder and
>more curved just to get more force behind my playing in order to
>compensate for the Electro keyboard.
>
>Method:
>I am being trained to play differently, I am seeing a chiropractor, a
>massage specialist and my doctor. I hope these things will treat my
>pain. But how to treat the cause?
>a) The Pocket Curve. If you switch the Electro MIDI local off and take a
>MIDI cable into the Pocket Curve and then back into the Electro you can
>use the various settings available on the Pocket Curve to alter the way
>the Electro respondes to velocity. It does exactly this. Downside is
>that it applies this modification to all MIDI note information coming
>in. This means in practice that your left hand bass suddenly has equal
>prominance to your right hand melody lines. Although some settings are
>better than others the problem is that I don't want the modified velocity
>curve to be applied to notes at the far left hand end of the
>keyboard. This is a shame as I was hoping this would be my problem solver.
>b) Use the Electro as if it were simply a rack and trigger it from my
>Trinity. The Trinity has infinatly adjustable velocity responce that can
>also be split into three ranges of keys. This of course defeat one of the
>main reasons for buying the Electro, e.g. just taking the one keyboard to
>gigs. So this is a non starter.
>c) Sell the Electro and replace it with another hammond clone. This
>realy appears to be the only route left to me.
>
>Solution:
>My Electro is for sale for 1000 UK pounds (or equivalent). I will also be
>interested in anyone wanting to part exchange for a good hammond clone
>(CX3, VK7, VK8, XK1 etc)
>
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