Today at church, someone other than me performed on our new AT. The Italian Grand Piano was selected and the song sounded great!
The performer suggested adding a sustain to make the AT more piano composition friendly.
There are quite a few pedals available on the market. Rather than go with a hit or miss approach, I thought that I would see which pedals other users have and how well they work.
A sustain pedal makes a huge difference, and not just for piano sounds. The Korg DS1H pedal allows for "half pedalling" which a true piano player would appreciate, though I just use a simple switch type double pedal, of unknown vintage, which has served well, over the years, and can be used for una corda, on SGX-2 engine piano programs, or as a soft pedal.
For a church setting, the further addition of an expression pedal would be very useful, particularly for traditional pipe organ type sounds, allowing for quiet background playing before the service starts, and swelling the volume using the pedal, when it's needed for hymns. This could all be done by hand using the main Volume control, of course, but an expression pedal allows this to be done hands-free.
Interestingly, when I play the AT during the Service, I don't find myself adjusting the volume control. By modifying the way keys are depressed, I can vary the volume enough to negate moving the volume slider.
The half damper pedal calibration feature on the Nautilus is worth performing since it allows the pedal response to match a real half damper pedal's behaviour. Using a damper pedal on the organ Programs and Combis allows for the playing of some quite extensive chords :-)
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