Weighted keys

[Piranha]

So I'm actually playing on a Yamaha DGX505, which has 88 none weighted keys.

It is touch sensitive though, and sometimes when I have to play a chord fast, let's say a C# octave with two white notes in the middle, the white notes don't sound as loud as the C#s, because I have to hit them harder, since the fingers are further (I hope I'm understood here)

I'm wondering, if I'm having a hard time making a white note sound loud that way, how do people do it on weighted keys? Are they weighted in such a way that the note will sound the same wherever you hit it? Or does practice makes your fingers really strong?

(I never played on weighted keys)

I had to make a picture of what I'm trying to say cuz I can barely understand myself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/piranha_jay/imstoopid.gif

See the red spots on the white keys? That's where the fingers are putting pressure on, and since it's so high, I need to hit harder for it to sound louder.

Anyway.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Having played exclusively on weighted keys until earlier this year when I bought my WK-3500 and Ion, I think it's just a matter of finger strength, as I've never had this problem.

[Athox]

I'm used to playing on non-weighted keys, and I think this summer (could have been longer ago) I tried playing on my uncles piano (old piece of crap in the living room :P) and it was really really difficult.
I'm gonna buy me an electric piano (with weighted keys apparently) when I can afford it. I guess it's needed :P

<nitpick>and that's not a C#, but an augmented one</nitpick> :P

[Piranha]

Yeah, I wasn't calling the chord a C# chord.

[Piranha]

I mean, naturally, you have to put much pressure on the key when you hit it that high to make it sound loud, right?

I feel like an idiot.

[Athox]

It IS harder to push it when you're doing that chord, yes. Even on non-weighted keys it is harder, though not so noticeable... or something.

[rifaa]

I grew up playing acoustic piano exclusively for a decade before touching a non-weighted keyboard and as far as I remember, it was just the other way around in the beginning: I played the white keys louder than the black keys, just because it was much easier to hit them correctly and thus I was applying more pressure to them. Because of playing the acoustic piano for so long, it probably wasn´t that much a matter of finger strength.

[GlassDream]

Well, I first started learning piano on a REAL Piano, so I had the benefit of learning with the real weighted feel. But when it came to getting a synth, I HAD to get weighted keys, and they only come on the 88 key models for any keyboard and they can be quite pricey, but all in all, it's very much so worth it if your looking in that direction. I can't play light plastic keys, they feel too sloppy under my fingers. it's really prefference. And for your dillema, just try to re-position your center two fingers to hit more in the center of the white keys and not so far on the end. I've learned many tricks to fingering strange chords with my guitar, so going from that background to piano really helped out.