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Re: Audio recording with key's noise

2006-05-12 by franpeyr

Hi,
thanks for the response

> I'm not tremendously familiar with the upright pianos, but where are you 
>   placing the microphones?   Where is the piano in relationship to walls 
> in the room.  It sounds like you can mike it differently to diminish the
> key return noise.

Yes and no. :°)
I have to take it close, because the sound of the room itself is not vey good, so I want to 
add 'space' later, whith a reverb unit.

> Second, I assume you are playing some sequenced MIDI into the disklavier
> rather than playing back something the disklavier it has itself 
> recorded.

Yes and no. :°))
In both of the ways to record, with a sequencer and with the unit of the piano, there is a 
real difference between the way I turn off the note and the way it is reproduiced.

> What are your note off velocities?  On most midi devicese
> note off velocities are unimportant, on the Disklavier it affects
> the speed in which the key releases.  I bet it's set to 127 in whatever
> sequencer software you're using.

No, the default is 64 (middle).

I have tried to record, and I have tested, with editing of the value of the note-off velocities, 
and it don't change a thing.

Is it possible to think that there is a difference between the upright and the grand ?

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