Disklavier

you can use my midi virtual keyboard to send all sorts of tests to the 
DKV. you can choose velocity and can send single or repeated notes with 
variable on time and spacing. it has features specifically for testing 
solenoid and pneumatic players that other virtual keyboards do not have. 
timing is not perfect at high repeat rates but some day i might address 
this issue. if you run the program with fewer other applications loaded 
it will be a bit more accurate.

On 3/12/2014 10:54 AM, Sam Kanter wrote:
> 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@... <mailto:PianoBench@...>> wrote:
>
>> Good morning, everyone.
>>
>>
>> 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
> 

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