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#503466 - 08/07/21 08:39 PM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: guitpic1]
Harold123 Offline
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Registered: 06/13/10
Posts: 439
Loc: Harrisville Pa USA
Thank You for sharing My questions. Yes the DGX has so much going for it and the reasonable price. I'm not a pro playing digital pianos but for Me I can't handle a heavy hammer action. My hands are tired! The quality grand piano sound is most Important for Me. Plus the DGX 670 does So much for the Cost as You mention. Enjoy Your Instrument and keep sharing with Us. Sincerely Harold

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#503471 - 08/08/21 01:13 PM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: guitpic1]
Diki Offline


Registered: 04/25/05
Posts: 14194
Loc: NW Florida
Piano actions are kinda like any exercise form…. It always seems hard at the start. But it gets easier if you keep at it for a while, and then one day you find yourself asking why you ever felt it hard in the first place!
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#503473 - 08/08/21 04:38 PM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: Diki]
Harold123 Offline
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Registered: 06/13/10
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Sorry Diki...I'm 73 and have pretty bad arthritus in My hands. I don't like PAIN! Harold

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#503478 - 08/09/21 08:57 AM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: guitpic1]
Diki Offline


Registered: 04/25/05
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Loc: NW Florida
I definitely can sympathize… mid-60’s here. But the whole point is, the pain goes away. 😎

The thing is, the lighter you set your action and velocity sensitivity, the harder it gets to control your dynamics. Especially with velocity triggered effects like acoustic guitar hammer-ons and switches between hard and soft string and horn articulations etc.. A super light action and a super sensitive velocity curve gives you very little difference between the normal note and the velocity triggered one, and I hear it all the time with amateur demos of guitar solos. Hammer-ons rearing their heads in places no guitarist (or probably the player!) would ever want them. It gets damn hard to play a consistent line and just have the effect pop in only when YOU want it.

To be honest, it’s for this reason (in a way) that I far prefer Roland’s SuperNatural guitar sounds over Yamaha and Korg’s articulated guitars. Roland’s don’t have velocity triggered effects (although there are a few in the ‘normal’ Tones), you actually PLAY the hammer on and it substitutes the articulation by recognizing that you have played a legato grace note inside a whole step distance from the previous note. So you can play as hard as you like and get a full dynamic range without worrying that a fractionally harder hit is going to trigger the damn effect somewhere you don’t want it! 🤬

But as we get older, there are all kinds of health benefits from accepting a bit of pain now to avoid more pain later, and music is no different. No, you don’t need to work on your Rachmaninov on a heavy Bosendorfer, but a bit heavier touch can pay off musically down the road… 🎹😎
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#503482 - 08/09/21 10:57 AM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: guitpic1]
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Registered: 04/16/14
Posts: 1950
Loc: Missouri
Interesting exchange

If keyboard action is the topic here(didn’t start out that way😊), for the $$$, the DGX 670 is a winner
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#503484 - 08/09/21 02:24 PM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: guitpic1]
Harold123 Offline
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Registered: 06/13/10
Posts: 439
Loc: Harrisville Pa USA
I agree 100%. I know what I can do and not do with MY Hands. Back to subject. Enjoy your DGX 670. We both are in a place where We can Purchase New Instruments until We decide to buy something different again....I'm blessed Harold

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#504780 - 01/19/22 06:48 AM Re: Yamaha DGX 670 Adaptive/Simple styles [Re: Diki]
Graham UK Offline
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Registered: 01/20/01
Posts: 1925
Loc: Lincolnshire UK
Diki. DGX670 contains 37 Adaptive Styles...Works well.

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