Do you use 'aftertouch' much?
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From: AKA gray asphalt on 25 Feb 2007 23:05 There's a new Edirol keyboard with aftertouch and some other nice features. There is a real big price difference between the M300 and the older M30. What do you think?
From: Rick Paul on 26 Feb 2007 01:42 I don't know about those specific keyboards, but, as for the question in the subject regarding aftertouch, I don't use it much, but, it is indispensible with some sounds/instruments I use frequently, like some of the guitar samples with Cakewalk's Dimension and a number of the Garritan libraries. I have two keyboards I use as MIDI controllers. One that is more of a piano-like thing (Roland Rhodes MK-80), with no aftertouch, and then another that is more of a synth thing (Alesis QuadraSynth Plus Piano), which does have aftertouch. I don't think I'd want to be without at least one keyboard that had aftertouch at this point. Rick -- ======================================= Rick Paul Closet Cowboy Music (ASCAP) Web: www.RickPaul.info MySpace: www.myspace.com/rickpaulmusic ======================================= "AKA gray asphalt" <goodidea1950(a)hotmail.spam.com> wrote in message news:G1tEh.25065$7d1.14853(a)newsfe12.phx... > There's a new Edirol keyboard with aftertouch and some other nice > features. There is a real big price difference between the M300 and the > older M30. What do you think? > >
From: polymod on 26 Feb 2007 08:36 "AKA gray asphalt" <goodidea1950(a)hotmail.spam.com> wrote in message news:G1tEh.25065$7d1.14853(a)newsfe12.phx... > There's a new Edirol keyboard with aftertouch and some other nice features. > There is a real big price difference between the M300 and the older M30. > What do you think? I only use aftertouch when both of my hands are already engaged inaction and my other digits can't do the job. Poly
From: Barry on 26 Feb 2007 11:02 On Feb 26, 8:36 am, "polymod" <poly...(a)optonline.net> wrote: use aftertouch when both of my hands are already engaged inaction and > my other digits can't do the job. > > Poly I don't believe I woulda told that on here Poly! lol -- I've used it in the past, I'm exactly sure what all it implicates, I just know a struck chord is allowed to finish? or am I thinking "effect tails" The difference would be... upon exporting a grand mix, you actually hear the last chord or lick fade oppossed to an abrupt stop. Barry
From: Rick Paul on 26 Feb 2007 13:37
What you're describing sounds a bit more like effect tails. I usually just select past the end of the MIDI sequence by a few measures (or maybe even longer) when exporting, to allow any synth releases and/or effect tails (especially long reverbs) to ring out. Otherwise SONAR has no way of knowing how long a MIDI sound or effect tail will be. Even when you use SONAR's effects tails flag, it only sets it for a predetermined number or seconds, which may or may not be long enough for your particular synth release/reverb tails. (Of course, if you set it long enough to cover any bases you'd ever encounter, it will be long enough -- I think the default is either 5 or 10 seconds.) What aftertouch does is completely dependent on the programming for the MIDI sound you're using. For example, with the Dimension guitar patches I mentioned in my post, it tends to do a little pitch bend/vibrato-type thing which feels like what you might get if a guitar player moved his fingers around a bit while holding the strings down. For Garritan Stradivari, I believe it controlled vibrato depth while mod wheel controlled vibrato speed, though I may have those reversed. It definitely controls vibrato depth with Garritan Jazz & Big Band -- another controller (CC17, I think -- definitely not mod wheel, which controls volume) is used for vibrato speed -- and I think the same is true for Garritan Personal Orchestra. Rick -- ======================================= Rick Paul Closet Cowboy Music (ASCAP) Web: www.RickPaul.info MySpace: www.myspace.com/rickpaulmusic ======================================= "Barry" <brryprrsh(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1172505755.800796.226270(a)s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com... > On Feb 26, 8:36 am, "polymod" <poly...(a)optonline.net> wrote: > use aftertouch when both of my hands are already engaged inaction and >> my other digits can't do the job. >> >> Poly > > I don't believe I woulda told that on here Poly! lol > -- > > I've used it in the past, I'm exactly sure what all it implicates, I > just know a struck chord is allowed to finish? or am I thinking > "effect tails" > > The difference would be... upon exporting a grand mix, you actually > hear the last chord or lick fade oppossed to an abrupt stop. > > Barry > > |