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^ The thing I'm most looking forward to as a pianist is the much greater resolution. You would think 127 values of velocity are a lot, but they can actually be rather limiting at times.
This made me cringe. I'm on the last piano lesson of the rookie series, and if I can manage to reliably produce quiet notes versus loud ones when I want them, I'm having a good day!
(Although, in my defense, none of the lessons have been *about* dynamics. But the music sure would sound better if I had more control over them.)
@Dobo I think we've discussed this before. You really need in-person instruction to truly get proper control of this, because so much of it comes down to body alignment and weight / force transfer.
@voltronic
I recall that advice, and thank you for it.
My plan has been to get through this rookie level with the software just to make sure I had the commitment, and the finger dexterity, and then take some time to try to find a good human teacher.
The thing is, if I have a human teacher, I have to deal with another human.
It was bad enough hiring a trainer at the gym. I'm just too much of an introvert to deal with that part easily. I think the lessons themselves won't be a problem.
^ Personally, I've never had an issue with Problem 1 (timing). At least, it's never been the fault of the MIDI interface / bus. In my experience, latency problems have always been on the audio output engine side.
Using ASIO when playing virtual instruments helps this tremendously.
More recently, I've found great success with using physically modeled instruments rather than sampled instruments. Much lower CPU / RAM overhead.