Expressive performance is a topic of debate today. For hundreds of years, we’ve made do with instruments like pianos, and more recently electric pianos, and we haven’t spent much time complaining about what they can’t do. The best musicians don’t mind limits – they stick within them and work out how to turn limits to their advantage.
But there’s been a growing number of manufacturers who believe that musicians are ready to be liberated. To these companies and people, musical notes as ‘on/off switches’ is not enough, and the keyboards and MIDI controllers we’ve come to know are now due a radical overhaul.
