[A6] sending midi

[Chris Pickett]

David Evans wrote:

>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:07:30PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
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>>David Evans wrote:
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>>> Anyway, the A6's keyboard doesn't do poly pressure.
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>>Yeah, that's what I meant.  I read about it in my handy "Midi for the 
>>Professional" book :)
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>  Ahh, OK.  The lack of generally-available poly pressure is a bummer, though
>you can go and buy some pretty cheap Ensoniq synths that have it (there was
>a discussion on AH about this recently).  Once their patent runs out I'm sure
>it will become more common.
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That's crazy that they have a patent on something that's part of the 
MIDI spec.

What's the best master *synth* keyboard out there?  For piano action, 
it's almost undoubtedly an 88-key Yamaha S-90 or Motif 8, not even a 
Kurzweil.  But I don't know about synth feel ... I read somewhere (that 
"tweakhead" website or something) that you can only get 76-key synth 
controllers.  What gives?

Chris