Discussion regarding keyboard technology?

Well, SMF, the 'standard MIDI file', limits Pianoteq's existing capabilities plenty, but you're out of luck finding any discussion of that here. Numb acceptance of the manufacturers' reluctance to produce anything better is the reason.... for what can discussion do about that situation?

A one-time contributor here with moniker 'sebion' (which AFAIK he uses elsewhere) went private with investigating the commercial chances of turning upright actions into cash. On the electrical engineering side his chances are excellent; his problem will be getting a supply of actions. But his rationale is perfect: why bother with *simulating* a mechanical action? Use a real one!

Pity about the action-supply problem. And that's why Pianoteq is valuable. Its sims are as practical as it can get for users, which keeps everyone here pretty much occupied with exploiting what it does offer, and quite often suggesting improvements, along with noting bugs and felt limitations. Big discussions nope.

Lot2learn has posted here at least once, maybe in the Creations sticky.

Meantime sebion's Home Page is (maybe was) http://sebion.wordpress.com/. The vid of Fur Elise, he's visibly using Pianoteq, & fair to assume he's still doing so whenever the rest of the rig he uses there is the same. With the Jesu, joy of Man's Desiring vid, he's using what he calls a modern upright action. And during one of the Comments at end of one of the pages was a simple announcement of a French piano manufacturer's email, an invitation to chat good as (colemann.com). Perhaps that was fellow-feeling, wrung out of the guy despite seeing seb as a competitor, and maybe enough fellow-feeling to gift an action. One action. And it'd be nice to think seb's now inside the company, working at his intentions from there.

Reverting to topic, the most recent discussions concerning a specific keyboard were of the Kawai VPC1; but mostly slanted from an already-persuaded/committed-to-buy perspective, on account mostly of affordability, and complaining about delayed supplies.

You can use pianoteq velocity graphic to test a given MIDI keyboard.
The velocity graphic have a red bar that hines when you hit a key. It shines in the graphic pointing indicating the midi value.

You can start hit a key note very slowy and gradually increasing the velocity, and see how de graphic's red line (velocity indicator) responds.

Thanks to you both for the replies.   I have the Pianoteq demo so I will try the utility.

I have two keyboards.   The first is a Kurzweil K1200 Pro 88 key semi-weighted master keyboard/synth.  Yesterday when scouring the manual I found that it has only eight velocity levels to make any velocity map. 

My second keyboard is a recently purchased Yamaha Tyros 5 76 key also semi- weighted.  As I have just spent just under £4000 on the Yamaha I do not have £1000 spare to buy the desirable Kawai VPC1.

Now IF the VCP1 has only eight or sixteen velocity steps to make a velocity map then despite the Kurzweil being only semi-weighted I would buy Pianoteq 4.5 American Grand and try to make do.

I do have a Knight K10 acoustic piano so do appreciate the advantage of fully weighted acoustic action.

Anyone here using Pianoteq with a semi-weighted keyboard?

Ian