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Post by kilroyrock on Jun 16, 2020 12:28:24 GMT -6
Also - I have a feeling that real keyboard players would be just fine with the cheap Keystation 88 I have - e.g. a great guitar player will sound great on a Squier. But am I not doing myself any favors with the Keystation? I haven't shopped for a new midi controller in a decade and a half...I'm sure there are much better ones out there. Has velocity control on these come a long way? Can I buy a $200 midi controller that would be better than the KS88? Or is the problem just my playing? I had an maudio 49 and it was ok, but buying a used novation remoteSL for 100 bucks 5 years ago was a significant step up in key triggers. There's a lot more to fiddle with from the controller, and has a screen so you can modify settings and know what's happening too. That way you don't have to envelope a bunch of hits and drag up. |
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Post by popmann on Jun 16, 2020 14:25:38 GMT -6
I also want to kind of clarify--for the purposes a of only playing something on a recording, I don't know how much a VPC1 (or insert other nice controller) will make a difference. I mean you will absolutely hear and feel it with them sitting right next to each other triggering the same instance of the same Ivory or whatever--but, being able to turn more even and realistic expression into "better tracks" does involve probably playing more than just when you want a piano track.
I spend a lot of time tweaking the under the hood response between my keyboard(Kronos88) and VIs. Because I PLAY a lot. The Kronos piano engine I've tweaked for like ten years--I had someone play mine and go "wait these are STOCK? How did you get that to sound like that?" --and we dug through settings, but at the end of the day, it's just a shit ton of a ply testing--different songs/dynamics/ranges show this and that issue, and I address it...it's piano engine has a more complex version of Keyscape's "Velo Sens" knob. That knob is doing a LOT of different things under one knob. If there's ever been an example of what I mean--Keyscape HAS a velocity scaling setting--meaning the thing where you calibrate your keyboard. There is (I just looked) a Keystation 88 preset--did you select it? I'm asking because I don't think a lot of people take the time--and it's a HUGE difference...but, anyway--AFTER you get that velocity mapping matched up to your keyboard, there's ALSO the Velo(city) Sens(itivty) knob that changes the way the samples respond to velocity. Other call it diferent things--"velocity to volume" is one of the more confusing yet literal ones--because part of what it's doing is telling you how much VOLUME difference there will be from velocity--too much, and it will be unforgiving of...less controlled playing...too little and it's a very noisy and one dimensional instrument. So you tune that AFTER you have the velocity mapping all set up.
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