electronic pianos with touch

Some electronic pianos simulate the feel of a real piano's dynamic control - faster harder = greater amplitude. Is there a specific name for this feature?

What electric pianos are regarded as best in this feature?

Touch sensitivity is one term for it, but that's only half the picture. Without weighted keys, the feel is always like a synth(spring loaded keys, like an accordion). The closest to a real piano I've played has got to be the Roland FP8 made roughly 7 years ago. Apparantly(I'm no tech), it uses actual hammers on the ends of the keys. A no brainer but great feel for a digital nevertheless. The upgrade was called the FP1, same action but inferior sound...oh well, newer is not always better. They still fetch a good price on the used market. I may sell mine, I'll post if I do

cheers

Rick Hollett Record Time Productions

Howdy, Joe! The Alesis QS-8 gets good reviews with this feature. Unfortunately, Alesis was purchased by some other company a while back, and their service and support have gone down the tubes. I bought mine from Atlanta Discount Music, though, and they stuck with me until I got it all figured out.

Best Wishes,

The other part of the picture which Rick neglected is something called velocity switching.

Think acoustic piano... if you play a note softly it has a different tone to a note played loudly. This is not just the volume, but the 'spectral' content of the note. That is a complicated word for the tonal content, the louder note contains more of the upper harmonics.

Most digital instruments now use this system whereby they sample the piano at many different volumes, then reference a different sample depending on how hard you have pressed the key.

Clive

It's not technically an electric piano, but Yamaha made a midi controller with weighted/velocity sensitive action called the KX88. My recollection is that it had a very nice action.