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jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:29 pm

himalaya wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:09 amAny chance of finding what you desire are almost nil if you take into account that the main key-bed manufacturer, Fatar, does not have a single design with poly-aftertouch. Remember, we live in the button-pushing era, not a keyboard-expression era, so there is little commercial push to make such designs available, even at a higher price point.

Fun fact, the Ensoniq range of poly-AT keybeds (all their top of the line boards from the VFX/EPS up to the ASR-10/TS-10) are all Fatar TP8S keybeds. That keybed was used in a variety of other boards, some of which have poly-AT (like the Gem S2/S3 and Waldorf Quantum mkii), some of which don't (like the Roland A-70, Moog One, and original Waldorf Quantum).

A poly-AT keyboard can be made out of just about any keybed that supports regular old AT.

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:17 pm

How are these poly-aft if the official Fatar specification states that the TP8S keybed only supports monophonic aftertouch?

http://www.fatar.com/Pages/TP_8S.htm

pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:27 pm

The old Roland APro series has it and can be found prety cheap these days. I have the APro300 which is a great keyboard, unfortunately designed specifically for Sonar, so to support everything on it you need to use Sonar or band(whatever) its called these days. Pretty sure anyway.

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:56 pm

himalaya wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:17 pm How are these poly-aft if the official Fatar specification states that the TP8S keybed only supports monophonic aftertouch?

http://www.fatar.com/Pages/TP_8S.htm

You'd have to ask those manufacturers. They're custom designed implementations as far as I know.

Edit: and it's worth noting, that website says the TP8S supports monophonic aftertouch. It does not say that the TP8s 'only' supports monophonic aftertouch. My guess is Fatar offers a monoAT add-on and don't offer a polyAT add-on.

Scoox · Post by **Scoox** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:49 pm

The Waldorf Quantum mk2 and the Waldorf Iridium Keyboard both have poly AT and the keybed is made by FATAR. JPer Waldforf's website, it's the FATAR TP/8SK keybed. The description on Fatar's website states "monophonic aftertouch", either that's an error or the version with poly AT is a bespoke keybed specifically made for Waldorf. Either way, FATAR have developed the technology to produce poly AT keybeds. This makes me think there is a very good chance other manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon soon because, if developing a keybed with poly AT had no hopes of being profitable, FATAR would not have gone out of their way to develop it, and yet they did. There is a good chance Native Instruments will use this keybed in the next version of their Komplete Kontrol series controllers. That alone would be a good reason for most existing Komplete Kontrol owners to want to upgrade.

Personally, I'm really hoping poly AT goes mainstream. Once you've played a keyboard with properly implemented poly AT there is no going back. The extra "dimension" is a ton of fun and many soft synths already support this out of the box so it's latent functionality waiting to be explored and harnessed.

rACatkvr · Post by **rACatkvr** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:33 pm

NI have jumped on it with their soon to be released Mk3 keyboards

Scoox · Post by **Scoox** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:17 pm

rACatkvr wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:33 pm NI have jumped on it with their soon to be released Mk3 keyboards

Do you have a source for that? That's sick

Edit: OK found it.

Midi keyboards with polyphonic aftertouch?