On 6/15/2019 4:53 AM, Paul wrote:
On 6/15/2019 3:25 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 6/15/2019 2:30 AM, Paul wrote:
You won't believe this:Â* It was something like a 24 pin
header, with only 12 of the pins connected!
It's an easy mistake to make if the connector is in a tough-to-see
spot, as many of them are. I've seen socketed DIP ICs installed with
one row of pins all on the outside of the socket.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* But I've never had a keyboard with an after-touch strip.Â* I must
say I don't really like it.
. . . .Â* how the aftertouch affects the voices, in some cases, it
either adds
a vibrato, or makes the note louder, or both.Â* Doesn't seem too useful,
musically, but then again, it would depend of the kind of music you want
to create. I hope there is an easy way to turn the aftertouch off!
I don't know if there's a way to globally turn off aftertouch (you
could disconnect the strip, I suppose), but it's almost certainly a
parameter in the patch that creates the voice. Factory presets are
usually created to show off as many features of the instrument as
possible. Get into the patch editor and you'll probably find how to
change what it modulates, or turn it off in that patch.
Or just don't press the keys so hard.Â*Â* 
Â*Â*Â*Â* Yes, I have the manual.Â* Just haven't looked into it in
detail yet.Â* I would imagine I would have to turn the aftertouch
off for each patch.
Â*Â*Â*Â* Now that I've played with it a bit, it seems to be a fairly useful
function for voices like violins, where you sometimes want heavy vibrato
at the end of a note.
Â*Â*Â*Â* But I have another problem:Â* The pitch wheel doesn't work, or only
works intermittently.Â* Could be a bad potentiometer that needs to be
replaced.
Also, the both modulation wheel, and the pitch wheel on the
left, are both made of this soft rubber, and for some dumb reason,
the engineers made them side-by-side, such they they rub each other!
So as I turn one wheel, the other wheel follows it!
****-poor design. I might have to sand down one, or both
of the wheels, so they don't touch anymore.