Disklavier

I have a DC3 MkIV and use it to play midi files wirelessly from my Sony laptop. I frequently find that the midi files I have obtained play too loudly. There is a piece of software available from Spencer Chase that will enable you to lower all the note velocities of one or, importantly, a batch of files. There are a number of presets in the program to give a choice in how the file will be modified, eg, reduce all velocities to 70% of existing or reduce all to a fixed figure of, say, 60. You can also tailor your own velocity preset, eg increase velocities in the range from 10 to 40 to a linear ramp between 40 and 64, and decrease velocities in the range from 75 to 127 to a linear ramp between 75 and 90. You can contact Spencer on spencer@....

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jthyder
Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 2:43 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Connect DKC 850 to my Home Theatre Speakers

Thanks for mentioning that, because one of my problems with the DC3A from the start was that I couldn't dial down the playback level low enough to easily have conversations in the same room. At piano show rooms, I've seen other brands of player system that allowed very soft playback, and I was annoyed that my Yamaha couldn't match them. Your note may make it easier for me to take the plunge, because my two top priorities are soft playback and wireless control via iPad/PC/Android.

Which piano do you have?

While I'm kvetching, the other thing I've hated about the DC3A since Day One (aside from the built-in speakers, which are just crap) was the sampled piano sound that you get in silent mode. I had a $700 Yamaha digital piano before getting the DK, and I loved its grand piano sound, so when I bought my $30,000 DC3A, I assumed I'd have the same great sound or better.

Wrong.

In most of the range it sounds fine, but in the two octaves above middle C, there's a range of notes that sound just like a Rhodes electric. Very jarring, very annoying. Yamaha reps I spoke to had no answer for why it sounded so bad. I tried other DC3As, and they sounded the same. I ended up buying an outboard Alesis synthesizer and using one of its sampled piano sounds when I wanted to play silently, rather than put up with the DC3A's sound.

How does the sampled grand piano in the DKC-850 sound? Natural and full throughout the whole range? Are there many different piano sounds? What about other midi instruments?

Thanks.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Donal Galvin wrote:
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> I have the DKC 850 and it plays much quieter than the Mark III which is worth the upgrade alone in my opinion
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