What's the best 61-key or better control keyboard?

[gunnare]

The novations seem to have good velocity response. This week I was tired of the wrong velocity curves in my AKAI MPK49, Line6 KB37, and the Project5 controller. It sounds like I play at full force even when I play gentle. So I made a Velocity-curve midi plugin that you can insert before ("before" is very important) the VST-instrument you are using. It is a much better experience to play the controllers now. I have checked in a sequencer , and there was a big difference between controllers while playing gentle. You can download the plugin from www.memorymoon.com. Just scroll all way down on the download page.

My Roland PCR300, Novation remote25 and YamahaKX88 have all good velocity curves.
Typically the controllers with good curves by default have adjustable curves, while the poorly implemented velocity keyboards have no adjustable curves, probably because they do not understand the problem, and just implement velocity in a linear way. The Roland, Yamaha and Novation keyboards are very good. I read that they increased the scanning rate on the Novation Impulse.

[mkdr]

The novations seem to have good velocity response. This week I was tired of the wrong velocity curves in my AKAI MPK49, Line6 KB37, and the Project5 controller. It sounds like I play at full force even when I play gentle. So I made a Velocity-curve midi plugin that you can insert before ("before" is very important) the VST-instrument you are using. It is a much better experience to play the controllers now. I have checked in a sequencer , and there was a big difference between controllers while playing gentle. You can download the plugin from www.memorymoon.com. Just scroll all way down on the download page.

My Roland PCR300, Novation remote25 and YamahaKX88 have all good velocity curves.
Typically the controllers with good curves by default have adjustable curves, while the poorly implemented velocity keyboards have no adjustable curves, probably because they do not understand the problem, and just implement velocity in a linear way. The Roland, Yamaha and Novation keyboards are very good. I read that they increased the scanning rate on the Novation Impulse.

You sure have a lot of Midi-keyboards...

[gunnare]

The novations seem to have good velocity response. This week I was tired of the wrong velocity curves in my AKAI MPK49, Line6 KB37, and the Project5 controller. It sounds like I play at full force even when I play gentle. So I made a Velocity-curve midi plugin that you can insert before ("before" is very important) the VST-instrument you are using. It is a much better experience to play the controllers now. I have checked in a sequencer , and there was a big difference between controllers while playing gentle. You can download the plugin from www.memorymoon.com. Just scroll all way down on the download page.

My Roland PCR300, Novation remote25 and YamahaKX88 have all good velocity curves.
Typically the controllers with good curves by default have adjustable curves, while the poorly implemented velocity keyboards have no adjustable curves, probably because they do not understand the problem, and just implement velocity in a linear way. The Roland, Yamaha and Novation keyboards are very good. I read that they increased the scanning rate on the Novation Impulse.

You sure have a lot of Midi-keyboards...

I am very interested in control surfaces. I hope to be able to build a hardware synth of one of my synths one day. Last week I cut the old Novation Remote25 and made it tilted like a Minimoog. Painted it with black car-paint. And labelled all the controls for memorymoon with an expensive labelling machine that my brother has got.

The velocity implementation on the MPK49 should be discussed. Has anyone compared it to another controller while all controllers playing the same piano patch? I did this with 3 controllers today, and compared the results in the midi-editor of Reaper. MPK49 is mostly around veloctiy 80-120. The new plugin that I made makes it into a usable instument. The exp curve creates more low velocity values, and you avoid the typical problem that fast runs have max velocity.

[Nantonos]

Any opinions on the Korg microKEY 61? (Yes, I'm aware it uses mini keys, not full size keys).

[Sendy]

Any opinions on the Korg microKEY 61? (Yes, I'm aware it uses mini keys, not full size keys).

Not directly on the product, but the mini keys on the MicroKorg XL are without a doubt the nicest mini-keys I've played, they're very fun and morish and quite easy to play despite my fingers being almost as big as each key.

If the microKey came out after the XL, it may use the same keybed.