Sometimes is just quicker to draw it in. But I mostly use it to open filters a bit more, change lfo amplitudes. I use aftertouch for anything available.
It depends what the source synth is capable of. I have also keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch and here's a small demo showing what kind of tricks you can play with it. It just feels and sounds so great! Aftertouch is a great modulation source but one thing to be careful about is that it generates a LOT of midi messages.
This may not be a problem for you but it is worth being aware of. Midi messages of normal aftertouch is not that much of data, not even worth of being aware unless you don't want to use it. Even monophonic aftertouch is one the most "intruding" continuous controllers. For as long as you "hold" a key, repeated AFT data is sent, even for mnimal variations of pressure.
No midi! I love using aftertouch for vibrato when playing lead sounds, which I find much more natural than doing the same with a mod wheel.
I will often modulate the rate at the same time to give me more expression. Using vibrato via aftertouch rather than mod wheel makes it much easier to use the pitch wheel when soloing.
Recently I saw a guy on youtube play a solo and he was using the mod wheel for vibrato while also using the pitch wheel. When I have a rhythmic patch which is created with looped envelopes, I like modulating the envelope slopes to give me rhythm variation.
Modwheel,pitch, velocity , sus pedals also can be used to play those fx. I've learned a lot on this thread. For example, I did not know that most keyboards just had mono aftertouch. Just presumed they were all poly, and I could see where poly would be beneficial. Now I've got to find which are and which are not I just read [guess where? The guy even said that he "can't SEE famous keyboard players pressuring on the keys, wchich means they don't use aftertouch" Aftertouch should be a standard feature in every keyboard.
Also a full half damper pedal works well. Joined: Aug I don't remember ever playing a keyboard that had it and using it. Perhaps the Prophet T8 did. It's also great for horn parts which I suck at, but I've heard it used effectively. Also nice for strings. It's also nice with a split keyboard, so you can affect the tone or volume of one part without wasting a hand or foot, while keeping other zones you might be playing in unaffected. But my favorite use is when playing a synth lead, pressing down to control vibrato instead of MOD wheel.
USA, greater NY area. I think the reason we don't get to chat on poly-AT much is because of the dismal number of instruments that currently offer it. I am not exactly sure wether it is the cost savings in manufacturing of doing channel pressure monophonic vs. I personally like it a lot on synthesizers Poly AT that is. But I'll take monophonic over none - Roland Jupiter Joined: Jul Louis, MO. I've used Aftertouch only on a few patches over my career, just because I find it kind of difficult to control.
In fact, some times if it's on a preset, I find it annoying and turn it off because I end up accidentally triggering something that I don't want to trigger. That said, it has on occasion allowed me to add dynamics to a sound that I otherwise would not have been able to include.
Originally Posted By: J. Now these are do not have the traditional keyboard action so it may be cheaper to implement. Yeah, I noticed that. I actually have the XKey I believe they are using a different mechanism than would be necessary on typical digital keyboard actions.
The XKey is like playing on chiclets mounted over a sponge. It's actually pretty effective at manipulating synth patches that are designed to use the poly-AT signal. Joined: Mar Melbourne, FL. I've had a couple boards that have aftertouch, and found that I didn't use it.
Sure, I tried it on a few songs, but it never was that musically useful to me. I used it on my Korg N to trigger Leslie speed, but it was a pain because I was only able to get it to speed up when the key was pressed, not what I wanted. As soon as I let off the pressure, the speed would go back to slow. Then when I would record something to my DAW using MIDI, I would look at the event list, and see all these unintentional events from the aftertouch triggering due to aggressive playing.
None of my current keyboards has it, and I don't miss it at all. So God helped him and created woman. Now everybody's got the blues. Joined: Oct To me, it's primarily about being able to add expression to a note without occupying your other hand, which may be covering another part or playing LH bass.
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