Slight niggles: Playing into the black keys is a little heavier than I'd like, but still perfectly responsive and nothing i can't live with. Also, the red/green/orange LED is completely useless to me with my red/green colour-blindness!

Overall, I'm delighted with it, and very relieved that I haven't made an expensive mistake, having bought it entirely on spec.

Perhaps "let off" is an acceptable term; but in the case of these Kawai digital actions, it's simply a silicon rubber nub that restricts key movement slightly as it passes by.  It does make if feel slightly more realistic, but you can only feel this on an acoustic at very slow speed.  In my opinion this is the reason you should always play "to the bottom" of the key, because the that's they only way the jack is properly triggered.  It's probably a part on the Kawai action that will wear out over time.

They won't wear out on my VPC1...I didn't like the way they felt so I ripped those suckers out.

Archikeys:
Let off ... okay, that's what it's called.  Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, I would agree about the vpc1 being "good enough".  It's not perfect, but pretty good.  If you have a decent keyboard already, I would not buy; but if you are looking for an upgrade, I would go with this one.

Personally I think it should be called the "escapement"  it's the point on an acoustic grand where the jack is pulled out from under the hammer.  It's built this way because it enables no direct contact between the key press and the string.  The hammers are "thrown" at the string as the lifting jack is tripped out.  To me the "liftoff" is the adjustable button that trips the jack, but that's not what you feel.  Perhaps "let off" is an acceptable term; but in the case of these Kawai digital actions, it's simply a silicon rubber nub that restricts key movement slightly as it passes by.  It does make if feel slightly more realistic, but you can only feel this on an acoustic at very slow speed.  In my opinion this is the reason you should always play "to the bottom" of the key, because the that's they only way the jack is properly triggered.  It's probably a part on the Kawai action that will wear out over time.  The best thing I see about the action is the staggered balance pins.  where the balance point is more inboard on the black keys.  It also has front guide pins which are also staggered.  Most digitals don't have any front guide pin as far as I know, but Casio has a front guide frame which can create unwanted noise in the form of clicks as the mechanism begins to wear.  I wish they wold go into more detail about the location and operation of the three individual sensors.  Where are they placed? And exactly what does each one do?

I'm thinking about replacing my ageing Technics PX-228 with a VPC-1.

Can anyone tell me what the resolution of the Kawai F-30 damper pedal is? I know it says "supports half-damper", but I'm hoping it has a similar resolution to the pedal on the Kawai CN series, which seems to be 128 steps (my Technics has 7 steps).

You should have started a new thread for your question.

Ian

Well, I tested my F30 damper pedal and I was able to change the value with a mean value increment of 10.

So that leads to 127/10 = some 12 or 13 different levels.

I had not expected much better behaviour form the really VERY cheap carbon type potentiometer, which is  also a very small type, some 16 mm in diameter.

But al long as it does NOT crackle, for me its  resolution is sufficient.

Greetings,

Geert

Is it not the case that PTQ's velocity wizard will display all the steps it receives, though?

Yes, this information can be easily checked in PTQ's MIDI events window.

Kind regards,
James
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Can anyone tell me what the resolution of the Kawai F-30 damper pedal is?

I've been asked not to provide the exact number, however I can tell you that - with the latest v1.04 firmware update - the VPC1 is capable of transmitting over 50 damper pedal steps.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
James
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EDIT: I should add that the exact number of achievable steps is dependent on the condition of the F-30 pedal unit.

Can anyone tell me what the resolution of the Kawai F-30 damper pedal is? I know it says "supports half-damper", but I'm hoping it has a similar resolution to the pedal on the Kawai CN series, which seems to be 128 steps (my Technics has 7 steps).

Ian

http://youtu.be/D618MKyqU7w

I didn't notice a MP-11 but then wasn't looking as I didn't know of such a keyboard

The MP11 was not publicly exhibited at NAMM.

James
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