Music Keyboard - Increase Sustain/Decay Time

[Sadlercomfort]

Hi All,

I have a 64 key electronic piano and as you play a note the note stops playing the instant you release your finger. This doesn't sound right at all, I have a sustain pedal which I can set to NC but this puts too much sustain on the notes and they being to blur together.

Adding resistance to the sustain pedal doesn't seem to have an effect.

Is it possible to modify the keyboard itself so the notes have a small decay time by default? I just want a more natural flow between each note being played.

I'd love to play a real upright piano but don't have the room for one.. and high end digital pianos are too expensive.

Thanks,
Ash

 

[Alec_t]

I doubt you'll be able to modify the piano the way you want, unless it's a prehistoric one with analogue circuitry defining the ADSR envelope. Most instruments these days do things digitally, so any mod would require software changes.

 

[Sadlercomfort]

Now you've mentioned envelope.. It appears I meant release time according to this graph. The decay once the key is released.

It's a shame though, most cheap keyboards are the same. Maybe I'll have to save some pennies.

 

[marduk]

Get a Yamaha CP-70 CP-80. I'd love one but I can't play. Otherwise you could try a delay vst or delay pedal or similar in your signal path and add extra release that way? Is your sustain pedal just a switching one?