akai mpk88

Typical weak product designed to fool virtual musicians who have never felt an Oberheim MC3000 or Yahama KX88..
It's not so much the action that I find most pathetic, but the lack of a quality triggering section.
I could trigger 10-12 layers using the ancient beasts from above, but even the Fatar FPWood while having similar heavy action is more cheap crap with a new hair color....
MIDI 2 Specs. are available but these developers know that virtual players don't spring for quality, hence the continued weak regurgitations over and over.
I gave up on controllers live and use the MC3000 at home since I don't perform classical, but I have 2 x pieces of crap that are great for synths and even Dixie/Ragtime using Modartt's rare sostenuto pedal.
You guys don't know how lucky you are to have Modartt as a developer, but I kind of doubt from what I read here that sostenuto gets much use. Just another reason developers know they can continue making crap controllers and people will come around posing and talk about action, blah,blah blah.....and never once comment on the sos, or number of triggered layers. Real Pianists just don't use this stuff, and when they do want a decent way to trigger more layers than these rip off 88 noters, they buy Digital Pianos from Kurzweil, Yamaha or Viscount for a couple of large since the keybed is fine tuned with the layers. So as long as you keep buying junk and never making demands other than " But I can't afford more than 200 Dollars ", you will be limited in your abilities to trigger more than the basic 4-5 layers, and be stuck with Chinese slave labor junk. Hey maybe someday we can have prisoners in the USA build our controllers, since a moron could snap together the garbage they seem to sell for a controller these days.
Oh BTW, in spite of my performance comprimised 88'rs I use the M Audio's because it's at least meant for a real time use. Snapshots, Mute all controllers features, transports for multitrack hardware and software sequencer transports....at least they thought people who use both hands would be buying their disposable controller..
Other than what I menyioned above, the Akai with it's drum pads is GGGGRRRRRAAAAAYYYY888888888888...!!!!!!!!

Cheers.