“Organ mode” is a way to configure your keyboard so that it triggers on the first contact. All synth keyboards have two contacts - one that triggers very early in pressing the key, another further down. Normally, they measure the time between the first and the second contact, and then calculate the velocity based on that. That means that a note is only triggered once you get past the second contact, which in turn means that you have to press the key pretty deep to trigger a note.
If you have a keyboard that triggers on the first contact, you lose the velocity information, but get very early triggering of notes with far less key travel - great for those cool organ glides.
That’s not what I meant - see explanation above - but it would be cool to have as well. I personally don’t need it because I simply invert my sliders in the background rack
I figured you did the inversion in C3 for current setups but having the device do it would save a lot of programming! Never thought about how the contacts respond. Would be interesting to see if it makes a really appreciable difference.
planing and 3D Design is done. As already said I’m in close contact with Torsten to get it perfect… at least for him.
Here are the specs:
FATAR TP/8O with 61 keys and channel aftertouch
Pitchbend & Modulation
10 Fader (can be used f.e. for 9 drawbars + masterfader)
4 Faderbanks. Illuminated switches next to the faders show selected faderbank.
9 Potentiometer
2.4" OLED which can be controlled via SysEx row by row with different font-sizes.
2x4 Arcade-Buttons for firing samples or other useful stuff
Panic-Button
2x4 illuminated general purpose buttons (f.e. can be used for transport)
1x3 illuminated buttons above the pitch&modwheel. They send standard midi CC but can be assigned to whatever you like within Cantabile (f.e. transpose)
MIDI I/O
power and MIDI over USB
4 pedal-inputs in a selectable configuration (selection (if switch or if expression) needs to be done in my workshop)
Housing made from 1.5mm black powder-coated aluminum
Sidepanels made from plywood painted with black warnex
Dimensions: 980 x 291 x 111mm
Weight: Hard to tell now. Less than 10kg for sure.
Here is a short animation of the 3D Modell:
Pricing:
This really depends on the quantity in total:
1-2: 1600€
3: 1300€
4: 1200€
5: 1150€
6 -10: 999€
Prices incl. 19% German VAT excl. shipping.
But please note: I can not make individual changes on the housing. The price-drop comes from manufacturing the exact same parts over and over again.
With that said: If you are really interested in one of these boards but you are not happy with something, tell us now! I can not make any changes later on. And if Torsten is happy with your advice and wants me to include it, okay. But otherwise it’s take it or leave it more or less.
Changing the keybed to another synth action is not possible due to a different mechanical layout.
You can decide over fader-/pot-caps, arcade-button-color and pedal-configuration though.
We will wait for any suggestions or people who wants to join the group-buy till the 17th of April.
Given that the keyboard isn’t to my liking I’d be more interested in a control surface only that I could velcro to any keyboard. The lighter and slimmer the better.
At the moment I’m starting to code an iPad Cantabile control surface in MIDI Designer Pro.
No weighted keys - it has a waterfall organ-type keyboard (Fatar TP-8O), but with velocity and aftertouch (channel pressure). Plays very nice for organ-y stuff and synth work; wouldn’t be my preferred keybed for piano stuff.
Since this beauty was built specifically for my use with Cantabile, I guess this ball is in my court. I might do this over the Christmas holidays; no promises, though…
So if anyone likes to join… you are welcome.