Talk:Keyboard expression
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I'm aware that I'm close to the line of NPOV with the last paragraph, about manufacturers of inferior instruments inaccurately claiming them to be pressure sensitive, but I think it's exactly what is happening.
And I think inferior is the word, regardless of the quality in other respects. It's best to implement the full MIDI standard, and an instrument which does so is in this sense at least superior.
The problem with the confusion is that it's very believable. Pressure sensitive seems a far more natural way to describe the touch of a piano than velocity sensitive, but it's not technically the correct way. (Linguistically of course anything can be correct, let's not go there.)
In fairness to these manufacturers, it's probably not their designers or even their executives who have made at least some of these decisions, it may be translators, and they may even be doing it in good faith. There's a lot going on. Andrewa 22:42, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
