What Is Aftertouch?

[@sweetwater]

Sweetwater’s Jacob Dupre breaks down everything you need to know about aftertouch! After you watch, check out more keyboard and synthesizer lessons here 👉 kzbin.info/aero/PLlczpwSXEOybFzNBWKH-43gw_c4qWLv7s

[@kevinperry3639]

That's a lot of really good information. Great video too, thanks 🤘

[@nsjx]

Thanks :) I recommend being careful when modulating certain params with Aftertouch because it is hardly ever a 'smooth' gradation. You can *sometimes* alter the sensitivity and opt for soft or harder response curves (and even on things like Hydrasynth,... you can change the fade times after-aftertouch). Maybe you want that unpredictable jerkiness... like if you are modulating delay times ever so slightly. But also AT "fx" are good if you are running through effects that obscure the onset on the AT response. Lots of nice things with spaced out atmo or pads. Anyway, those are just suggestions (from my trials n error with this function)

[@luucdentoom6955]

Also my experience with AT on the Nord. I’m now saving for an Expressive E Osmose. Really looking forward to play with that one.

[@MrRukanoga]

yeah, now I see that I do need this option to make my music way more expressive. Thanks!

[@rockturtle6951]

Exactlly what I needed to see! thank you

[@manugajanan3979]

Love mapping vibrato to AT!

[@AlcoTrader]

Thanks a lot, now I understand how helpful aftertouch can be

[@SergeantButters]

concise and helpful thanks

[@BlondieSL]

I love after touch and use it all the time. There's so many ways to enhance something, like trumpets for example. You can get that soft to harsh sound as often heard in Mariachi songs. On those Nord Stage 3 keyboards, are the keys weighted, semi-weighted or non-weighted? I'm not a piano player and never like weighted keys. All my instruments are non-weighted and so, for me, doing glissing or squabbling is easy. I couldn't do it on weighted keys. LOL I do see that the Stage 4 has weighted keys, but I'm not sure if Nord makes different versions of the same keyboard with weighted or non-weighted. It's too bad that these keyboard manufacturers couldn't figure out a way to create an "adjustable" weight effect, from zero to what a piano would have. BUT, without using actual weights, which make the keyboard so much heavier. Some sort of electronically adjustable resistance, would be cool.

[@cinepost]

I didn’t hear any effect you offered that I would want. I need better examples that aftertouch is good for? Any other channel that that explains it?

[@rasmuhamednasr4621]

Beautiful

[@tedtedsen269]

my old tecknics kn7000 had that effect in 2002

[@alan93]

thanks for explaining. But after 40 years and playing dozens of synths on various types of music in many different bands and my own recordings, I don't see a use for this. If I want tremolo like on Styx song Babe or Tom Petty Breakdown, I'll turn it on. Maybe some new alt songs with their weird sounds might use it but I just want to trigger notes and music with first touch.

[@glentonfrancis_official]

But then..this cud also be set up with a pedal assigned rte?..

[@iLL3571]

That's a subscribe from me, thanks Jacob

[@jonathanrodriguez8219]

Nice!!!

[@KlassikMafiaProduction]

should i buy oxygen pro from m-audio with after touch or just buy the keylab arturia essential mk3 ??

[@krish-ut9de]

i am asking the same question lol, what did you get?

[@KlassikMafiaProduction]

@@krish-ut9de a good producer that i know told me to get the arturia because it have a better quality and the touch feel is better especially for those who are pianist... so i said to myself i should go to a shop and try both of them but unfortunately they didn't have them in the shop.. so i asked the guy at the shop which one should i get.. he told me it depends on what i need it for... if you don't need the after touch feature.. arturia is the choice to take.. it has a lot of vst instruments plug-ins and a bigger screen easy to manipulate and i think it's a newer generation than M-audio and it got better keys that don't make noise and clicking sound like M-audio .... but if you need aftertouch feature... M-audio is really a great choice.. i used to have the old normal version M-audio Keyrig 49 for 10 years... and it was good, so to conclude me personally i don't use the aftertouch so i will go for arturia because i like the design more with the wood panel... and i also like the capability of controlling your VSt instrument settings with the keyboard.. and maybe later i will get a small version of M-audio oxygen to play with the aftertouch even though I think it useless features for producing.. it's more useful for live shows

[@bigheartsmolpen]

Same. What did both of you get? Need advice.

[@KlassikMafiaProduction]

@@bigheartsmolpen if u don't need after touch go for arturia... it got better key feeling especially for pianist..also got usb type c and a bigger screen more easy to manipulate but if u need very badly the aftertouch and u wanna use your keyboard for live shows then get the M-audio... or u can buy arturia for now and later get the smaller version of M-audio oxygen to play with the after touch...

[@KlassikMafiaProduction]

@@krish-ut9de i though i replied to you but it appears that something went wrong and my comment didn't got saved so the answer is : if u don't need after touch go for arturia... it got better key feeling especially for pianist..also got usb type c and a bigger screen more easy to manipulate but if u need very badly the aftertouch and u wanna use your keyboard for live shows then get the M-audio... or u can buy arturia for now and later get the smaller version of M-audio oxygen to play with the after touch...

[@VictorRodriguez-qc8pi]

super

[@jemarmitchell5555]

Hey dupre i bought the nektar panorama t6 last december of 2022 and it has after touch but man i dont understand it. I bought it from sweetwater

[@bobcatdrums]

How much do these run?

[@jackphoton]

Hi Sweetwater. This is a small point, I am sure. in future please consider a demo such as this using a normal and more intuitive sound everyone has heard before, such as a standard piano. While the presenter may know this particular synth sound inside and out, most peeps will have never heard it before. As such, we cannot truly experience the full and actual effect demonstrated. Were a normal piano voice used, our life-long familiarity with pianos would help inform our understanding of what these effects are having. I thank you kindly for your videos.

[@rorz999]

I disagree, it's a standard pad sound and you need something like that to demonstrate aftertouch properly. Acoustic piano has way too short a decay and it's not a very 'full' sound in terms of frequency if you're just playing one note or a chord, so you wouldn't be able to hear the full extent of what the aftertouch is doing

[@jackphoton]

@@rorz999 "Such as piano" is not "must be piano". ANY 'normal' sounds humanity is familiar with will do. It could be a car horn as people know what those characteristics entail no matter the brand, age or strength of a given horn Nonsense noises out of one person's imagination is not a good example as the sound could already be doing anything within its envelope.

[@Ader1]

​@@jackphotonHmm, the problem I see with what you're saying is that the sample must be adapted for aftertouch, which means that if you forcefully adapt it, it won't sound very good. Although maybe if the sound were recreated with a wavetable synthesizer (or by physical modulation) maybe what you say could be done. It has already been possible to recreate many acoustic sounds through synthesis and their results are very good, but even so, do not expect a very "true" result to reality, since that depends on many things, either on how the sound is constructed, as well like what parameters were used to modulate it. The sound can be very different even among the experts who recreated the timbre of the acoustic instrument, although it can be very close to the original sound :) But after all, from the point of view of these people, it is a waste of time. It's easier and sufficient to just use a good pad to demonstrate aftertouch capability.

[@jordanbrant6648]

Can’t wait to sell my car and both kidneys to afford a Nord!!!!

[@cinepost]

I understand how it works now, but I would never use it that way, nasty, sounded broken

[@griefwells]

this seems janky AF

[@alyctro8158]

and ofcourse you show it off on gear that costs thousands...

[@velkar747]

He keeps moving forward and backward. Is that for varying the touch pressure, like he presses a bit harder while moving his body forward, and relaxing the touch while moving his body backward? Sorry, it may sound silly, but his body movements consuses me as to what he is trying to demonstrate.