Sustain mode on Yamaha keyboards?
I want to buy a yamaha keyboard, but i was wondering if anyone knew if they had a sustain mode. i dont want a foot pedal.. on my old keyboard theres a button you press that makes every note you play sustain. do the new modern yamahas have a mode like this?? like a type of ‘voice’ as they call it or in the sound effects? or is it just the foot pedal that will make a note sustain?
thank you =)
i actually have a sustain button on my keyboard now and i absolutely love it..i cant play without it. it sounds so beautiful. it sustains it jsut long enough so that it never sounds mushed together. with the pedal you have to constantly press it up and down which is tedious, though i love to do that with my piano, just not with a keyboard. plus pedals are like 30$ extra.
I would guess it would depend upon the Yamaha keyboard itself – my old one had a ‘sustain’ button also, but I’ve noticed the trend toward the foot pedal. The pedal is probably better as it frees your hands to focus on the notes rather than on the sustain feature. What do you think of Korg keyboards? (I’m looking to get ‘best answer’ so let me know if I can help you further.)
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I would guess it would depend upon the Yamaha keyboard itself – my old one had a ‘sustain’ button also, but I’ve noticed the trend toward the foot pedal. The pedal is probably better as it frees your hands to focus on the notes rather than on the sustain feature. What do you think of Korg keyboards? (I’m looking to get ‘best answer’ so let me know if I can help you further.)
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The problem with sustain buttons is that it is hard to control the sustain – you end up with a lot of mush with notes running into each other.
My Kurzweil has a sustain pedal – it’s much better – you can control exactly the amount of expression you need.
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