6HD keybed losing velocity sensitivity ?

[valiant]

I have been playing the Holy Grail piano a lot. I also practise on acoustic pianos to build up finger strength. With the Holy Grail Piano I use a velocity setting in the range 20-28 as I find that most closely resemble the touch of the acoustic pianos I play.

However, lately, I've found when I play soft passages that notes don't sound as if the keys are not as responsive to velocity as they used to be when I first played my 6HD Fusion.

I keep a dustcover over the keyboard to avoid that dust gets into the keys because I know from experience that that may affect the key contacts and consequently key velocity responsiveness, so I find it hard to believe that dust could be an issue here.

Has anyone else had this experience ?

I was getting ready for a recording session and also to do some live gigs, so I am keen to sort out this issue as soon as possible.

Regards,

[mps]

Most modern keyboards have two switches per key. the first contact is for note info, the time between the first and second contact is measured to produce your velocity info. That is my understanding. So I don't think that the relationship can change. They are mounted and cannot move.

May be that your touch is changing from all of your practicing?

[valiant]

Thanks for your reply, mps ! That would mean that as you say: either my touch is changing, or there may be dust in the pickups.

With other keyboards I have experienced that keys would have to be hit progressively harder in order to make sound until they would no longer produce any sound regardless of how hard they were hit. Taking the keyboard for service, having the key contacts cleaned for dust would fix that problem.

[Hollow Sun]

valiant said:

With the Holy Grail Piano I use a velocity setting in the range 20-28

That seems a low setting!

Here at HS Towers, we have ours set to 50 (6HDs and 8HDs) as this is the best compromise for playing internal sounds and playing external modules, etc.. Works for us.

That said, none of us are 'pianists' but my daughter is classically trained and finds the HGP on my 8HD quite playable and expressive (as does her piano teacher).

I don't know what to suggest other than to say the synth action of the 6HD keyboard is maybe not ideally suited for effective piano playing.


Steve