Disklavier

Sheldon, Carol
Carol is rigth, but did not explain the other side:
Why velocities should be not greater than 96 (100)?

I don't know.
I read it shome where here and my personal experience confirms the 
tip form someone else.

Velocity and volume are difernet things in the DKV and most 
profesional synths, but in cheaper or old synths sometimes are the 
same and you can not tell the diference.

Any way, my personal experience is that, when using MIDI files not 
made for the DKV (in the first place), you must edit the files 
before trying them on the DKV and it is try an error process.

Sometimes you will have files that sound great in the PC but you can 
not make it sound nice in the DKV, this maybe because of the XG, GM, 
sound fonts and othes issues of MIDI.

I have found some midifiles form the web with velocity fixed to 100 
(or 127) and changes of volume (for example form 80 to 110)  all 
arroud the tracks.
The effect works fine on most PC synths but not on the DKV.

You can edit and adapt these files (with cakewalk for example) but 
is not a a simple task and is time consumming.

On most good files from the net, after some work, you will have very 
nice results on the DKV.

Have a nice day... (or evenig if it´s the case)


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" <crbrpt@b...> 
wrote:
> Piano actions cannot take that kind of a beating.  Velocity and 
volume are
> two different things.  For Disklaviers, the minimum velocity 
should not go
> below 30, and I think the ideal high is about 60.
> 
> Carol  Beigel
>