It's easy to test, if you've got both:
Hook up a Montage as a MIDI keyboard controller for a MODX. All of a sudden your pianos (and everything else with velocity dynamics of significance) sound much brighter and fuller, for far less finger/hammer effort.
Any good quality MIDI keyboard has the same impact, if you'll excuse the pun.
And for anyone wondering, no. Changing the control curves of sensitivity in the settings of the MODX does not come close to fully solving this problem of a difficulty in actuation of the hardest 1/3rd of key action on the inbuilt keyboards.
So significant is the night and day difference when you plug in a Montage keyboard as controller of a MODX, so suddenly does your MODX sound like a Montage, that the DAC differences become somewhat ... not a thing. Almost, seemingly, the DACs are so close that any differences they might have are hard to audibly discern. Probably show up at extreme volumes on great systems for audio engineers and EQ curve peepers.
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btw I first fully realised this difference in keyboard actuation when doing sound design with significant velocity sensitivity on the MODX, and then porting the sounds to a Montage. Sensitivity on the MODX design was really only using the first 2/3rds of velocity, which gave the Montage playing experience a kind of infuriating "I'm playing harder why isn't it opening up more" sense, as if a lot of the extra player velocity was capped too early, or (far worse) was screaming too far past where it was useful and starting to sound horrid in ways that seemingly weren't there on the MODX (hidden by the velocity actuation difficulties of normal playing impacts on MODX keys).
Hook up a Montage as a MIDI keyboard controller for a MODX. All of a sudden your pianos (and everything else with velocity dynamics of significance) sound much brighter and fuller, for far less finger/hammer effort.
Any good quality MIDI keyboard has the same impact, if you'll excuse the pun.
And for anyone wondering, no. Changing the control curves of sensitivity in the settings of the MODX does not come close to fully solving this problem of a difficulty in actuation of the hardest 1/3rd of key action on the inbuilt keyboards.
So significant is the night and day difference when you plug in a Montage keyboard as controller of a MODX, so suddenly does your MODX sound like a Montage, that the DAC differences become somewhat ... not a thing. Almost, seemingly, the DACs are so close that any differences they might have are hard to audibly discern. Probably show up at extreme volumes on great systems for audio engineers and EQ curve peepers.
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btw I first fully realised this difference in keyboard actuation when doing sound design with significant velocity sensitivity on the MODX, and then porting the sounds to a Montage. Sensitivity on the MODX design was really only using the first 2/3rds of velocity, which gave the Montage playing experience a kind of infuriating "I'm playing harder why isn't it opening up more" sense, as if a lot of the extra player velocity was capped too early, or (far worse) was screaming too far past where it was useful and starting to sound horrid in ways that seemingly weren't there on the MODX (hidden by the velocity actuation difficulties of normal playing impacts on MODX keys).
Statistics: Posted by DugLess — Fri Jun 07, 2024 5:46 am