Disklavier

Jean,
     Sure enough, the Stoptime Rag is a good demo of the thump - fun too, just as you suggest. <G>
     Here's another one that demonstrates the thump pretty well: Attached is an excerpt from Richard Carlson's excellent work "optimized for the Disklavier." http://www.geocities.com/~rwcpno/  It's part of Clair de Lune. Normally, there's 
supposed to be quite a bit of quiet time in this piece. However, the pedal thump from my misbehaving MX500 is so bad that it sets all of my strings to vibrating during quiet time. I am sure Richard does not experience the same problem on his beautiful grand. I wonder if other MX500 owners find the thumping in this particular passage of Richard's work 
as objectionable as I do.
     This is not to detract one bit from Richard's work. I read what he does to produce his work. Amazing!!  - Bravo Richard! - His finished product is fabulous and I see that since I visited his site last, he has added a few more files. Richard's files are among the few you can download, copy to a floppy disk, put in the controller and play as-is. I would only maybe do two things: Use Cakewalk | File | Info | Title | to change "untitled" to the name of the piece so the title will display in the controller's window instead of the word "untitled". I might also reduce the velocity a bit to reduce wear on my felt and complaints from my wife who is usually watching TV or sleeping in the next room. <G>
Walt
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To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
From: "Jean Debefve" <kobold@...>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:35:59 -0000 
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Pedal, tracks, channels, velocity, Cakewalk 
...
I especially think of "Stoptime Rag" where silences are
provided for thumping, inside the tune.  "Perfessor" Bill Edwards  has
a very good version of it too. What's more, it could be an effective
and musical  way to use the excess of thumping some of us have
reported, while waiting for the tech's visit !   <G> 
...
Jean Debefve,
Belgium







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