You know man, I’m not a piano player. Maybe someone who is traditionally likes to push the keys hard and have more dynamic force be necessary to control the velocity but for me, I’d prefer a setting that went on a sliding scale from min to max instead of just 3 curves which all are pretty sensitive.
Also, a benefit of keystep pro is that it has it’s own power source so it doesn’t have ground loop issues, so that’s a plus in it’s favor. It’s a really well made controller, but If you’re in the market for a new controller and don’t desire the sequencer and cv connectivity or the individual ins and outs for drum triggers maybe in the price range the roland a-49 is a good place to look.
But you’ll have to verify if it does what you want as far as the midi channel switching. With a quadra thru or some other midi box the keystep pro could do what you’re asking for pretty simply from the settings menu, but it would not be a one button change over, you’d still need to have everything configured to what channel you want each to be on and then do a quick menu dive into a couple sub menus to change the plumbing.
edit: incidentally, something which just occurred to me is that if you only plan to use 4 or less devices, you could ignore the KSP sequencer but use the “tracks” as channels by assigning the midi channel to each of your devices there, then at that point there is a dedicated button on the front panel to switch between. but that would be an expensive set of 4 buttons…
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