Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

If memory serves me correctly, the Mark II does not respond to volume  
control (controller 7) messages. It does, of course, respond to note- 
on velocity messages.

I think that controller 7 was first implemented in the Mark IIXG.

Regards,
PianoBench


On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:06 PM, James Fry wrote:

> I haven't used this tool, but I suspect you want to reduce the
> velocities, as this is the individual note loudness. I would expect  
> the
> volume control to insert controller 7 messages, which I think will  
> have
> the same effect as adjusting the volume control on the piano control
> unit (on my MPX1Z Mark II this puts the "soft" pedal down)
>
> Give it a try and see what happens I guess!
>
> James
>
> yadidisklavier wrote:
> >
> > I know that this has been addressed many times by the group over the
> > years, but unfortunately, all of the posts have only led to more
> > confusion for me. Please help me by clarify?
> >
> > I recently purchased an MX100II Mark II. From previous pianos, I
> > already understand what happens to hammers from constant pounding.
> >
> > I recently purchased GNMIDI so I could batch convert midi files and
> > make them appropriate for the DKV. In the GNMIDI convert volume
> > function, the software gives two choices (radio buttons), one is
> > for "volume" and the other is for "velocity". There is a  
> "percentage"
> > choice as well..this is self explanatory and an I believe I want a
> > value of 80% or less.
> >
> > Since I don't want to flat line velocity performance within a song,
> > should I just be selecting the "volume" option?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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