On Mar 11, 2014, at 8:48 PM, Sam Kanter wrote:
I will have to do some testing to see how much compression my piano is recording. I suppose a good test would be doing a record playback test with a MIDI monitor. I assume I could fix some of the compression using one of Spence's volume utilities?
Sam, your vintage Disklavier does not compress the MIDI data by making and saving changes to the MIDI file. It simply doesn't play the highest velocity notes as loud as a modern Disklavier and it doesn't play lowest velocity notes as softly as a modern Disklavier does.
Using a program to alter the MIDI data--making the high velocity notes even higher and the low velocity notes even lower--will have no effect on playback on your instrument.
You will find, however, that your vintage Disklavier does record the velocities correctly and that a sequence with a wide dynamic range, recorded on your Disklavier, will play black with that same wide dynamic range on a modern instrument.
Regards,
PianoBench