Disklavier

Glenn, Thanks for your kind words.  Your post made me remember fondly those days of figuring that stuff out.  It was a real roller coaster as only a short time after I put out a working version did Yamaha release an update which added the secure handshake.  That was depressing, and took a good long time to figure out.  Good times.
Anyway, it sounds like, from your post, that you might have forgotten that the piano allows you to set the volume level of the "background" music separately from the main volume.  Is that the case?  This might be a very simple situation to rectify if that is what is going on.
Anyway, pressing the volume button will bring up the "Volume Details" view.   It may be docked somewhere, so look around to see where it is.  In that view there are four settings:
VoiceTone GeneratorAudioMicrophone 
Most importantly, there's a button at the bottom labeled "Reset".  That sets the piano back to 100,100,64,0 respectively.  I suspect that you will find (hopefully!!) that your "audio" is set somewhat lower than 64.
-Kevin

      From: "Glenn Smutny G.SMUTNY@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
 To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 12:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [disklavier] Mark IV reset
   
    Kevin,
Thanks for your input. Your program is excellent and thank you very much for creating it. I remember when you were creating it, and gave sort of a daily blow by blow report on what you were doing. Sniffing packets of network traffic - if I remember right! Darn near James Bond type stuff! Hah! Way too cool! 
I have checked the speakers below and those are fine. I am not sure I was aware of the clicking on the volume button…maybe I was, but I don’t remember. I will check this evening and let you know. 
Just a few more recollections on my piano’s condition….1. If I play it on silent, everything seems to work pretty well. I think it is generally acceptable. 2.) When the piano is in normal mode, the volume of the piano can be controlled, but the accompaniment is very very soft. Basically non existent. However as I change the volume of the piano, the accompaniment does get proportionally louder, but no where near remotely acceptable.  
Thanks again. 
Glenn SmutnyG.SMUTNY@...



On Oct 28, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Kevin Goroway kgoroway@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Late to this thread.  But I have a few suggestions before erasing everything...
#1) Have you checked the volume level on the speakers under the piano?  They each have individual volume controls...#2) Have you actually tried to adjust the volume of the accompaniment from within DKVBrowser (since the PRC needs batteries).  You click on the volume button to bring up the details.
The values that are displayed there are received directly from the piano.  If it says that the levels are at 127, then the piano thinks the levels are at 127.  If that's the case, I would be looking into the external speakers.  I can't imagine a case where they both fail simultaneously, so I'd guess it's not that...



From: "Glenn Smutny G.SMUTNY@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Mark IV reset

 Bill,Thank you very much for helping me with this. 
I would say that it very likely that I have had several devices connected at once. I do have the the iOS Controller app on my iPad and I do have a Droidlavier app on my Samsung phone. Could they have been all connected at the same. Very possibly! I can think of a holiday a few years back when I setup a playlist on my iMac, and then at the dinner table, had my cell phone at my side to adjust the overall volume level from the table. That same night, I could have used my iPad (only because it was right there and my phone was not with me at that point) as my sisters-in-law played the Piano so that I could record them. The dkvBrowser would have likely still be up on my iMac through all of this. 
Regarding the PRC100, I believe I can use it. (Although I need new batteries for both it and the tablet.) I know that I have gone into every menu item and attempted to adjust levels from that too. I have not had any luck with it. The same goes for the disklavier tablet. 
Thank you again. 
Glenn SmutnyG.SMUTNY@...



On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:40 PM, Bill Brandom billbrando@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Glenn,
Are you still able to use your PRC100?

Bill
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On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Glenn Smutny G.SMUTNY@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Hopefully this will get to Bill B.

I believe I am interested in a full software reset of my Mark IV.

I would hate to lose all of the music on my hard drive, but I am having problems with Volume levels being appropriate. Supporting back ground accompaniment is so soft that it can hardly be heard over the piano. I believe, but am uncertain that by using Kevin Goroway’s dkvBrowser on my iMac, might have caused this to happen. (No negative comments here about Kevin. His software works great!) I just think that somehow, some minor little nuance of the program, has messed up a setting on my piano. To date, I have been unable to figure it out. 

I am wondering if by completely removing the Mark IV software and replace it 100%, if I would once again have control of the systems volume levels.  

Any suggestions would be helpful. 

Glenn Smutny
G.SMUTNY@...