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Re: [disklavier] Is it normal that playback is louder than sound produced during recording?

2013-09-24 by Adrian Thomas

If you go through the calibration procedure, the piano should play back according to spec. The calibration should be carried out every time any work has been done on the action or when the piano has been moved and installed in a different location.

As far as MIDI velocities are concerned, any Disklavier will modify the MIDI velocities at the extreme ends, i.e. minimum velocity will be around 30-40 and maximum velocity will be just above 100. (electronic keyboards will play any velocity from 0 to 127)

The E3 series should be quite accurate and is the best player piano on the market as far as playing back at low volume is concerned.

Adrian Thomas

On Sep 24 2013, Carol Beigel wrote:

>I believe the default playback velocity on the DKV is 100. If you were to look at the MIDI file in a sequencer program like Logic, the data would be as it was recorded.
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>On Sep 23, 2013, at 5:46 PM, wrote:
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>> I notice that on my DGB1KE3, when I play back the music that I just recorded (by playing the piano), the piano is louder, i.e., during playback the solenoids are hitting the keys harder than I hit them during recording.
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>> Is this normal and expected? Thanks.
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>> Minh
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