Disklavier

Extracts from my previous postings on this topic are reproduced below:

 

"My PC is a Vaio notebook (or laptop).  I connect to the DKV via the USB
port, but not with a cable, but through my WIFI network using a wireless USB
connection from IOGEAR.  So, with a cable-free laptop I can get full control
all I wish to do.  When it comes to recording from the DKV, I also use the
laptop and Cakewalk via the wireless USB."  NOTE: to get my wifi network to
the DKV I had to use 2 Netgear WIFI extenders daisy-chained - an extender
applied to an already extended wifi network.  (Netgear told me they couldn't
be daisy-chained - they can, but data capacity is reduced by 50% each time -
not an issue with midi as the 2nd extender can still deliver at least
20mbs).  This set up works very reliably once sorted out.

 

"An older DKV doesn't need wireless capability to connect wirelessly to a
laptop.  It just needs a MIDI IN port (USB) to connect an IOGEAR wireless
USB sharing station to.  If it has no USB connectivity, then it will also
need a USB to MIDI interface.  

The type of USB midi interface is important.  The cheap ones from China (the
ones with the treble clef symbol not ones with a symbol that looks a bit
like a bass clef), which I have found to work very well for connecting to a
MIDI instrument via USB do not seem to work with the wireless device from
IOGEAR.  The IOGEAR device asks for the driver for the USB interface (ie, as
a piece of software that can be read).  The Chinese USB interfaces that I
have used come with a driver built in which installs on the computer when
first connected.  You will need a device that comes with its driver on a
disk.  An older Roland USB MIDI interface that I have comes with drivers on
a disk.  However, I have not tried it with the IOGEAR device - be aware.
Here is a link to the IOGEAR USB sharing station
http://www.iogear.com/product/GUWIP204/."

Regards

Geoff

 

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Sheldon H. Deluty, M.D.
Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 9:28 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Connect DKC 850 to my Home Theatre Speakers

 

  

How do you do it wirelessly ?



On 8/15/2013 6:51 PM, Geoff Ward wrote:

  

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@....

 

Regards

 


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From:  <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com> 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 <mailto:disklavier%40yahoogroups.com> ,
Donal Galvin  <mailto:discodonal@...> <discodonal@...> 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 
>