Christoph Clause

I haven't yet, but need to do that! I think my problem is not so much the internal sounds, but more the controlling of other external sounds. The new midi solutions box I am getting will solve my problems with that though. I just wish the PX had more control over the velocity settings.

Thanks for that suggestion. I tried it and set the level at 126. It appears that I CAN in fact hit a 127 velocity, so I am incorrect. In order to get that velocity though, I have to hit the keys extremely hard. Harder than I would ever play. I really have to smash down on the keys as hard as I can to get that level, and this is when set to the 'light' touch setting. I don't even want to do that test too much as it seems like I could break the keyboard hitting that hard! I wonder if there are any other velocity curve adjustments besides the 3 'light, normal, heavy' settings? It doesn't seem like there is from what I can tell. I've ordered one of these, which should help with controlling external MIDI gear and Virtual Instrument plugins etc. http://www.midisolutions.com/prodvel.htm

Internally, I know that the velocities are not reaching their maximum because of the sound of the patches. For example, if I have the basic 0-0 ConcertGrand patch loaded, and I send midi information from my DAW at velocity 127, I know how the piano sounds at that velocity level. It is not possible to create the same brighter sound from playing the PX keyboard. UNLESS I go into the system settings / general / touch and set that to 'off', then set the 'touch off velocity' to 127. Then every key I play will be at 127 and the patch sounds with the maximum velocity. When setting the touch back to light, normal or heavy, it is impossible to create the maximum 127 velocity sound on the patches. That's how I know that the velocities are not reaching their maximum values for the internal sounds as well as t the MIDI output. I wonder if it's possible that something is wrong with my particular PX? I bought it about 4 years ago, and I think it's always been this way. I just didn't really notice until recently when I was trying to play the sounds from my Yamaha Reface CP. It's impossible to get the 'bite' out of the Rhodes and Wurli sounds on it, which are quite nice. They sound very mellow when controlled from the PX because of the velocity issue.

I have a PX-5S and really love it. I have discovered something about the keyboard velocities though that I am wondering if anyone else out there has experienced. It seems impossible to get the highest velocities out of the keyboard. Like in the range of about 115-127. Changing the velocity settings (light / normal / heavy) doesn't help. The only way I can actually send a velocity of 127 (to both the internal sounds AND the Midi outputs) is to set the velocity setting to 'OFF' and make the off velocity level 127. I am a professional pianist and the most I can get out of it is MAYBE about 122-124 and that's literally only if I slam my hands ridiculously hard onto it. Any normal type of heavy playing does not get above about 110 or so. Seems like something is wrong, or perhaps there is some other adjustment or setting I am missing? Thank you to anyone who might have some insight into this.