Disklavier

George, (and everyone),I did a very simple test this morning recording 5 levels of velocity/volume on my Mk II. 1 was the softest I could play, 5 the loudest. It seemed accurate from 1-4, but 4 and 5 sounded the same.

Pretty crude test, but informative. If I have time, I might try an A/B test with a MIDI monitor to be more accurate. 

Sam
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> On Mar 12, 2014, at 8:32 AM, George Frederick Litterst <PianoBench@...> wrote:
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> Good morning, everyone.
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>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 8:48 PM, Sam Kanter wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards,
> PianoBench
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