Question about Key Action handling/velocity/power.
Posted: 16:16, 11 December 2017
I have bought a RD-2000 as my very first keyboard due to its really amazing key action feel.
I could have gone with the FD90 but I figure that the 2k, should I get some skill in a year or two, has the bigger ceiling in sounds and whatnot.
However, the pricing still stung my wallet bad, and now I'm wondering about key action resilience.
Right now, I am a bloody beginner and I have the weakest hands possible.
I am using the "Jazz Scat" tone as a benchmark for velocity since it has that nice "dow!" sound at the highest velocity range.
Thing is, on standard, "medium" settings, I can only achieve that if I do the sharpest downward thrust of my fingers I can muster, and even then, it often barely scratches that peak range.
Only if I use two fingers and a super decisive downward "snap", bottoming out it is the most consistent.
I'm not doing any meteor strikes or anything, just "bam" down go the fingers as if the thing owes me money and won't give it up until I give it a stinging slap across the face.
(Not that my baby hands generate much force...)
Am I risking damage to the keys? My fingers really are weaksauce,
Do you guys just don't give a hoot and just let those arms and wrists fly into the keybed when it's needed?
(I'm starting with Hanon so I'm not using my wrists or arms to add to the force for now)
Would really ease my mind...
Especially if you could give me some reassurance that with further finger strenght/training things become more smooth and not as snappy, unless snappy, again, doesn't matter and the RD can just take that no worries.
Thanks.
I could have gone with the FD90 but I figure that the 2k, should I get some skill in a year or two, has the bigger ceiling in sounds and whatnot.
However, the pricing still stung my wallet bad, and now I'm wondering about key action resilience.
Right now, I am a bloody beginner and I have the weakest hands possible.
I am using the "Jazz Scat" tone as a benchmark for velocity since it has that nice "dow!" sound at the highest velocity range.
Thing is, on standard, "medium" settings, I can only achieve that if I do the sharpest downward thrust of my fingers I can muster, and even then, it often barely scratches that peak range.
Only if I use two fingers and a super decisive downward "snap", bottoming out it is the most consistent.
I'm not doing any meteor strikes or anything, just "bam" down go the fingers as if the thing owes me money and won't give it up until I give it a stinging slap across the face.
(Not that my baby hands generate much force...)
Am I risking damage to the keys? My fingers really are weaksauce,
Do you guys just don't give a hoot and just let those arms and wrists fly into the keybed when it's needed?
(I'm starting with Hanon so I'm not using my wrists or arms to add to the force for now)
Would really ease my mind...
Especially if you could give me some reassurance that with further finger strenght/training things become more smooth and not as snappy, unless snappy, again, doesn't matter and the RD can just take that no worries.
Thanks.