Disklavier

Thanks for the info and for sharing your thoughts. Also, great news about the upcoming Valentine's 20% off Yamaha MusicSoft sale. 

I’m most intrigued about your comment that the DKC ensemble/accompaniment tones/sounds are much better on your original control unit compared to the DKC850. Perhaps there’s more going on? 

In my case, and as far as I’m aware, the same tone generator chip and wavetable (DB50XG daughterboad) is used on the DKC850 and my DKC500RW XG. Also, I often only use a few voices from my original control unit (or none at all) and use newer sound modules to supplement the control unit and to provide a broader palate of MIDI voices to work with. 

Also, with the original control unit, I sometimes use voice layering and/or a keyboard split points to duplicate the acoustic piano part with another MIDI voice, or to allow two separate (external) voices to be controlled by the piano’s keyboard. 

All things considered, I’ll be hanging on to my control unit. 

Robert 

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From: "kassey22000@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> 
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, 8 February, 2015 2:23:26 PM 
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Where are Keyboard Measurement Settings Saved? 






Regarding your 2nd question. I've found that the original control unit has some big advantages which is why I use the "add-on" setting with my DKC-850 and DKC-500RW xg. 
1. The ensemble/accompaniment tones/sounds are much better than the DKC850 produces. 
2. If you record you can layer up to 16 tracks of piano and ensemble sounds. 
3. Calibration, testing, and having a DK tech do diagnostics is more complete. 
4. If you have a PRO model the fidelity of the PRO recordings you provide or from sources like Yamaha's e-competition are much better. 
5. If you have a Silent model the digitized acoustic grand piano accompaniment is of a Yamaha Concert Grand sampling and is far superior to the acoustic grand sampling included with the DKC850. 
6. Having both head units set up this way also allows 2 stereo outputs so you can layer accompaniment/instrumentation from both units out to a stereo amp or multiple amps/monitor speakers etc. Example: I can have the DKC-850 putting out harpsichord and the DKC-500 flutes and acoustic piano simultaneously. 


I'll have to search back from prior postings, but I believe there are a few other advantages to setting up your Disklavier in this manner. For those who really want DK-Radio and TV, it's simply moving the main cable and one setting on the 850 menu and you're done. 

Lastly, Yamahamusicsoft dot com is running their Valentines 20% off sale on all Pianosoft music, not a bad deal.