A force-feedback keyboard, using technology similar to force-feedback joysticks, could usher in the final improvements to keyboard feel.

It would have motors controlling the resistance, bounce, and vibration of the keys, sensors to detect user-input, and a computer simulation of a keyboard action, all working together with no perceivable delay.

It would be the Pianoteq of actions.

Features:

- User-selectable key weight
- Fast repetition
- Simulation of any real piano or other keyboard instrument
- Complex feel of each key-press
- Vibration (in sync with the sound)
- Lightened action when the sustain pedal is down
- Aftertouch, and continuous intrument control by raising and lowering a key
- Keys that play themselves ala Diskclavier
- Elimination of the bulk and weight of mechanical actions

Is this feasible with current technology?