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Thanks for this and parent too! I didn't realise that this is precisely what I've been missing in my compositions: I never quite understood that poly aftertouch

Thanks for this and parent too! I didn't realise that this is precisely what I've been missing in my compositions: I never quite understood that poly aftertouch is actually rare! Anyone know of weighted keys that implement this?

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
Gem S2/S3 - from the early 90s. And they haven't been made for a very long time. Poly-AT is mechanically pretty hard to do so it's quite expensive. It wasn't considered a prime selling feature because not many people really wanted it. The people who did want it were desperate for it, but it's taken until now for it to start appearing in mainstream products. Still no modern weighted keys, unfortunately.
radiowave 4y ago
The only ones I know of are the Roland A-80 (somewhat rare) and Kurzweil MIDIBoard (very rare), both circa 1988. The Gem S2 and S3 (as mentioned by TheOtherHobbes) from around 1992 - these do indeed have poly aftertouch, but neither of them are weighted. Ensoniq was the company who most consistently used poly aftertouch in their keyboards during this era, but AFAIK only ever on the synth-weight keys. For their models that had weighted keyboards, they would use a keybed made by Fatar which only provided regular aftertouch, not poly.