What's aftertouch?

What's aftertouch?

What's the weakneess if my keyboard doesn't have it?

Thanks!

Google is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftertouch

If you press harder on a key that's already being held down, it'll send a signal for a specific action. If it's a lead sound, it'll often turn on vibrato. Sometimes it'll create a volume swell or a filter change. On a lot of tones though it can be pointless, like for piano sounds.

If you're talking about a keyboard controller used to controller external modules, the module needs to be able to repond to it as well.

LOL.

I said the same thing regarding this topic on another forum.

Aftertouch means hard (no aftertouch means soft).

And, aftertouch means wet (no aftertouch means dry).

I guess I don't spend enough time here to be sick of hearing some questions always being repeated yet.

Well, the question was already answered, so I felt it was ok to spew my usual idiocy. I would never be sarcastic right off the bat with a newbie question.

Aftertouch is something you disable so as to avoid spitting tons of superfluous MIDI data to your sequencer, which screws up your timing.

Okay, fine, it can also be cool at times.

I never thought of that. I did disable the recording of it in DP when I was working with some patches I hated the aftertouch effects of though. That was for a class so I couldn't rewrite any of the patches.

Its not that its been asked too much, its just that the OP didn't take the twenty seconds to go to google.com, type "aftertouch" and hit enter.

FWIW, I have no problem with the OP but just wish people would learn to look before asking...it keeps the S/N ratio higher around here

OP? Osteitis pubis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteitis_pubis

Its not that its been asked too much, its just that the OP didn't take the twenty seconds to go to google.com, type "aftertouch" and hit enter. FWIW, I have no problem with the OP but just wish people would learn to look before asking...it keeps the S/N ratio higher around here

See here's the thing.........

It takes about the same amount of time to ask a forum as search in wiki or google.

wiki and google will generally give you some biased opinion, or some ad that some company has paid thousand's for......

...whilst a forum will give you, after a few answers, probabably the actual definition, plus a few opinions as to whether it's useful or not.

Would you prefer if the OP got the definition of aftertouch first from google, then asked this forum what they thought of it?

There's that OP again. Optimus Prime?

And I heard DP used here. Double pen . . . naw.

It takes more time if you don't have an account

Ironically, forums will give you opinions because people have paid thousands to companies

For glossary Wikipedia is just fine. For "what sequencer is the best" there's a forum.

Fair enough. But then, what sequencer is the best?

They all suck if you own any hardware.

I use this one.

Because it's crazy as {censored}.

The pressing question, though is.....is there "before touch?"

yes, but it doesn't leave the same sticky residue on your fingers