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DeltaJockey · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:25 pm Post subject: Speed of keyboard triggering

Hi guys,

I originally bought my Kross 61 as a small footprint keyboard controller to take on the road along with my laptop and virtual synths, with the advantage of having the excellent built in freestanding workstation capability. I know there's been some debate of the quality of the keybed, and I accept the limitation of this considering what it was designed for. (eg. thinness and lightness of the plastic keytops).
However, one of the issues I find with it, is the time response from when pressing a key, particularly when playing fast transient sounds.
An example of this is when playing Native Instruments, Session Strings, with the animator. I seem to miss triggering notes frequently using the Kross, but when using any other keyboard I don't have this problem. It actually works well with a Korg Microkey! But I prefer the larger keys.

I've played around around with velocity settings, and I know this keybed seems to have a fairly large "dead spot" in the travel before triggering, but taking this into account I still can't get it right.
I believe the problem is independent of velocity settings.
I find the keybed on my Kronos 61 does not have this issue no matter what I adjust the velocity curve
to. (yes it is a more substantial keybed, but a little too substantial for light travelling.

I'm quite happy with the keybed feel otherwise, and the Kross in general,

Any similar experiences, with anyone?

Chris
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tommymandel · Senior Member Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 272 Location: NYC

Possibly. It's hard for me to love or hate the Kross-61 keybed, because precisely that - just when you think, 'Gee, this is triggering smooth' on say, the internal piano sound, it makes you sound like a fool triggering something else. I can't pin it down though.

Dragan · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:48 pm Post subject:

I triggered another synth (novation MiniNova) directly via MIDI and it works excellent with the factory default velocity. Then I triggered some piano samples via Ableton and the result was very good. No big difference as when playing the Kross Grand Piano itself. I have 88-keys though where the key action differs from the 61-version.
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