From k2mojo@groovedaddies.com Wed Feb 18 01:27:02 2004
Subject:Re: M-Audio Keystation Pro 88

That's exactly what my gripe is. Why if I want to play a full 88-
note keyboard, my only choice is to buy a hammer-weighted keyboard?
When I want to use just one good catch-all controller, to me 88 keys
is the best way to go. Not only do your glissandos sounds fuller
since you can start up at the very top of the keyboard range, having
all 88 keys is very handy if you do a lot of splits and zones. I
know some feel the opposite, but for me it's much easier to play
piano parts on a non-weighted keyboard than it is to play Hammond
smears on a hammer-weighted keyboard.
Currently the only two 88-note keyboards I know of that aren't
hammer-weight are the Kurzweil SP88 (semi-weighted) and the Roland
RS-9 (non-weighted). Both still have "piano shaped" keys however
(not the traditional cut-away synth-style keys on most non-
weighted's), they just have lighter action. Unfortunately they
don't have the sliders/drawbars that could make them a great
controller for both piano AND Hammond playing. If the M-Audio
Keystation Pro 88 had non-weighted keys you could do both very well,
it seems to me. Now that I think about it, an 88-note Nord Electro
would probably do very well, especially if they got their acoustic
pianos up to speed.

Ed Fliege
k2mojo@groovedaddies.com

> They have the non weighted 61 key model that lists for $329- it
has
> the faders.