some questions about receptor and controllers...

[Kaius]

Hi there folks ... I'm going to get a receptor in a couple of weeks...

but i'm having doubts about a controller that will suit receptor and my needs...

Ill have some fusion, prog and jazz gigs to make
My ideia is to run clonewheel, some analog stuff ( leads pads ), rhodes, wurli, mellotron, clavis and some small old akai samples of strings and orchestra.
but mostly ... B4. for bread and butter i have kurz pc2, p90 and a k5000s for additive wierdnss.

but i need a lightweight controller when i use only the receptor.

and instead of two or three manuals ... one 76 ( or 88 with light touch, (b4) that i will use with split ( for dual manual b4 )

I was thinking about: cme uf8 (only 2 zones, and just one preset )
or maudio pro88 ( 4zones and 10preset ) both have fader /drawbars.
what about the action of the keys? .. will it be slugish for b3? im a pretty fast player, with strong hands, but I dont like to play b3 stuff on a keyboard like p90. bloody gliss, if you know what I mean

I cant demo these keyboards in my country ( portugal ) any muser uses any of them live?


will doepfer D3c ( or B4d ) work in the next patch?

if not ... can I program the faders in the midi controller to work around it? ( like maudio 88 or cme uf series )

what is faster and safer? to have a midi controller with "x" zones ( splits, layers etc) and load the vsts on each midi channel and change the midi channel and program changes with the controller...

OR make "multis" in Receptor and dont program the midi controller?

many thanks!

[DanTimis]

I have an m-audio pro88 and I am pretty happy with it. I play a lot of classical piano and I much prefer weighted keys. But, if you do a lot of B4 gliss I wouldn't get the pro88, the keys are too heavy. On the other hand you can program the faders to work like drawbars, and that works very well.

[Andreas]

I tried the CME uf8 today and I don´t think it´s what you would like considering it has one of the heaviest actions I´ve ever tried on a masterkeyboard. I liked it a lot, because it feels more like a piano than the competitors, the M-audio Pro-88 has lighter action and the Fatar sl-990 xp feels ever more synthish even if they say it has "True Piano Weighted Hammer Action"

Andreas.