Gary,

Awhile back I had to play at a church as a guest and didn't bring my own keyboard, because they told me that they had one of the good Yamahas there.

Got there and wasn't supposed to play until last, so I sat out in the church and listened to the other groups. Even the home church's choir/band, the piano sounded like someone banging as hard as they could the whole time. The young lady was compensating by turning the Volume fader down. But the sound of the thing was PLUNK, PLANK, PLUNK, the Volume fader just made it less apparent.

When I got to the stage, we were to go on last, the first thing I did was start punchin' those buttons on that Yammy frantically, trying to remember how to get that thing into Velocity Curve or Touch edit mode. Finally found the right menu item, no time for esoterics, I set the thing to "Hard" touch and played our part of the show.

I think Yamaha sampled that same model C once and have used it in every keyboard since then. They do have a distinctive sound that can be quite nice in a mix, but only once you get that critical Velocity Curve set to match your playing style. They come with a default that is just too light, man. And if you are using it as Controller keyboard to fire other synths, the Yammies simply send Velocity data that is too high most of the time.

When we got done, I tried to show the young lady what was up, but she was more interested in how "easy" the piano was to play than how it sounded, so I returned it back to the "Soft" setting that made it sound like Bang, Bang, Bang.

People.

Doing themselves in more often than not...


--Mac

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