Disklavier

When you record your own playing on a DKV, or if you examine some 
PianoSoft files, you will find that the note velocities generally fall 
in the range from about 25 to 95.  At a DKV Volume setting equal to 0, 
those files will reproduce with a sound output that is nearly identical 
to the original performance.

When the DKV Volume is set to zero and you reproduce some downloaded 
file that has note velocities higher than 95, the DKV limits the hammer 
speed and sound output so that each note will reproduce at exactly the 
same volume it would at velocity 95.  To obtain dynamic gradations of 
notes in the 95 to 127 range, you must reduce the DKV's Volume setting 
to a lower value.  When you play files with the Volume control set at 
less than zero, you are compressing the entire dynamic range of the song.

There is no law against playing files with a velocity range beyond 25 
through 95.  With the DKV Volume set to zero, a note with velocity 127 
cannot hurt the piano any more than a note at velocity 95 because the 
hammer will strike the strings with exactly the same force.  If you are 
playing downloaded files with many high note velocities, simply turn the 
DKV's volume knob down for comfortable listening.

If you wish to standardize downloaded files to make their velocity 
profiles similar to PianoSoft files, then it may be appropriate to scale 
and/or shift the note velocities of those files.

Jorge Fernandez wrote:
> 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\ufffds 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
>>
> 
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