Disklavier

Greetings DKV fans:

Ahhh!  My favorite subject.  Loudness/Velocity.  I have an older 92 
model wagon grand, and one of my original problems was that it played 
too loud.  This was especially true when I drove it from MIDI files 
on my computer via the MIDI in interface.  My most satisfactory 
solution to date has been to remap the velocities with Velocet, 
available from Muncy's goodie box.  For Pianosoft diskettes, I guess 
that it would be necessary to make a PC readable copy with the DOS 
utility and then then apply Veloset.

Maybe one of the Yamaha techs can provide more light on the human vs. 
solenoid question, but since the solenoids are by necessity striking 
the keys differently than a human player, differences in response are 
to be expected.  I suspect that they have improved things since our 
models, but with appropriate massaging of the files I have been able 
to obtain satisfactory performance.  I also tend to believe that 
allowing the player mechanism to pound the piano can't be the best 
thing for it.  As Bob Welcyng suggested, perhaps the piano needs 
calibration.  If you are in the East, I recommend Tom Kaplan (if he 
still services DKVs).  He was the one who finally exorcised all of 
the demons in my piano :-)

One last comment:  I don't know about MX100As, but my older model 
does NOT respond to the overall velocity parameter in MIDI files 
(controller 7, I believe).  I usually set that to 0 to avoid having 
the piano part play on the synthesizer when I play multi-instrument 
pieces. 

Bob Davis



--- In disklavier@y..., "fakepopster" <raydene@n...> wrote:
> I have seen several posts on this topic including what velocity 
> should be set to but let me ask this.  
> 
> I have a MX100A.  When I play a disk (one I create or a Yamaha 
> Pianodisc that came with it) it is very loud.  The part I don't 
> understand is, if I bang on the keyboard as hard as I can, I can 
> never get the volume I am hearing out of the disks.  Don't get me 
> wrong.  I don't want it to be loud.  I'm really concerned about the 
> disks ruining my machine, really.  I guesds I really have two 
> questions: 
> 
> 1. How can the piano, physically, play louder with the disks than a 
> human is capable of playing it?
> 
> 2. Is it possible I am harming the machine, playing it this loud?  
It 
> doesn't seem like Yamaha would engineer software that ruins it's 
> pianos but considering the first question....
> 
> BTY It's ten years old and seems to be in wonderful condition!  
> 
> Thanks