I think John Q. Walker said earlier when he went to look at some early Mark IVs that they had a much more sensitive method of measuring velocity and playing it back, especially on soft passages. I think he also said that they used 16-bit values for velocity. I am surprised to hear that this is not the case. John, is my memory mistaken?
Thanks,
Carl
On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:24 AM, George F. Litterst wrote:
Good afternoon, everyone.
Carl, the standard Mark IV measures velocity on the normal MIDI scale
of 0-127. All Disklavier Pros (from the Mark IIXG version to the Mark
III and Mark IV), however, measure velocity on a scale of 0-1023. The
extra bits of resolution are stored in various MIDI controllers
(controllers which are otherwise undefined in the current MIDI spec).
All of the extra MIDI data is transmittable over MIDI cables.
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