KORG NAUTILUS AT: Now with added Aftertouch

7 responses to “KORG NAUTILUS AT: Now with added Aftertouch”

Dim says:
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14 July 2023 at 07:15
Milking the last kronos.Sad for something that should have been there in the first place
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Diki Ross says:
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14 July 2023 at 19:52
Crazy increase in price. Hard pass. I’d want poly modulation for that much.
Wholesale cost difference on Chinese actions is a fraction of that. Throw in an expression pedal to add in modulation for $60. Buy another synth with the $500 you just saved…
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Cxarnecki says:
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15 July 2023 at 00:47
the peak of shame to get money out of people in this way where AT should be earlier in keyboards I didn’t expect it from korg it’s weak and embarrassing shame on korg
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Zab abbey says:
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16 July 2023 at 15:48
Lots of editorializing about how significant this upgrade is, but I’m not clear about exactly what sort of aftertouch these keyboards offer from this article.
“Channel after touch” you say? Sorry, not familiar with the term. Is it polyphonic aftertouch, where holding down each key modifies only that key, or all the currently playing notes? The latter is the more common I think, kind of like adding a mod wheel effect to the sound but doing it by pressing any key harder.
Actual polyphonic aftertouch is harder to do I suspect, where you can change the aftertouch effect individually on a note by note basis. I think I read that the new Udo Gemini features full polyphonic aftertouch (and a long ribbon controller.)
I wish the author explored and explained aftertouch more so that confused people like me could understand actually what this update is offering, instead of spending so much space discussing whether whatever is being offered is valuable or worth the price asked.
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Rob Puricelli says:
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16 July 2023 at 20:15
There are two main types of aftertouch. Channel (sometimes referred to as mono) and Polyphonic. The key difference is that channel aftertouch affects all notes being played. For example, hold down a chord and press down on one key and the effect assigned to aftertouch will affect all notes currently being played.
Polyphonic aftertouch allows you to apply the aftertouch effect to individual notes. Taking the previous example, hold down a chord and press down on one key and the effect assigned will only apply to that key.
There are some variations on this, such as last-note aftertouch. This is a bit of a halfway house in as much as it is essentially channel aftertouch but the synth tracks the most recently key held and if aftertouch is applied to that note, it only applies it to that note. Arturia’s Polybrute has this.
The NAUTILUS AT uses channel aftertouch, so the most basic form. Channel aftertouch is the most common form, but the advent of the ASM Hydrasynth has sparked a renewed interest in polyphonic aftertouch, a feature mostly reserved in large, vintage synths like Yamaha’s CS80 or DX1.
We only have so much space to write within news articles so we have to assume a basic knowledge of common synthesizer features and terms. Otherwise, Google can be your friend. 🙂
I hope that helps?
Rob – The “author”.
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Zab Abbey says:
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17 July 2023 at 05:24
Further explanation much appreciated – if you had included even a small part of this in your article your reservations about the value of the feature would have been better justified this reader at least. I wish these had polyphonic aftertouch, my mod wheel analogy seems to apply to the limited ‘aftertouch’ Korg has added to these keyboards.
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RR says:
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29 August 2023 at 18:08
But no 73 key version? Where is the logic?
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