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Re: Soft Step real feedback please



Sorry for being coy Bill, I guess you are late to the party if you
dont know, but for most people, the software totally sucks, its buggy,
huge in memory and cpu requirements, not particularly hard to get to
grips with, quite user friendly really, the main selling point of it
being " a controller for you feet" with XY directions and what-not,
just aint true..
its not possible to control ANYTHING other than sudden uncontrolled CC
leaps... the pedals are NOT magical surfaces that react subtly to tiny
muscular movements, frankly the design fault is mostly one in you feet
than the pedal, you can use yer size 10s like a mouse!

But for me, hence my comment, its the feel of the pedals themselves
that meant that it had to go back, THEY DONT CLICK.. at all, I never
knew it before (always having had pedals that click) but I need a
click!!! I couldnt rest my feet on the top of the pedal, without
triggering it, if I reduced the sensitivity (oh yes you can adjust
EVERYTHING) then I could stamp on it and it wouldn't change... so
there I was with my foot hovering in mid air... cramp set in!

Im sure all the software issues will be fixed, the lack of click wont,
so... I repeat... try yer foot on one.. you might not like it.. I
didnt!

Mark



On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:41 PM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> 
wrote:
>  The answers I've been getting are about as coy as a pond of ornamental
> fish, to wit:
> Features aside, just try "steppinĀ“" on one first Bill, you may not
> like it, or was that sarcasm?
> and
> I prefer to play bass sitting but I've been playing standing with the
> softstep because I have a much easier time mashing down the keys on the
> softstep. Just thought I'd throw that out there as you contemplate your
> purchase.
> Come on folks, even if you have to spill your beans to me off list, 
>someone
> please give some real world answers  to my real world questions.  Is it 
>the
> learning curve or the latency, or the friggin shag carpet you happen to 
>me
> putting your Soft step on, or the fact its a bit to small and thin to use
> with your favorite combat boots? it seems to me it would be best mounted 
>on
> an angled pedal board to make the back tier more accessable. I would 
>really
> appreciate more detail about this.
>  Thanks
>  Bill



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