Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

The DKC-850 is designed to be a complete controller replacement for the Mark IIXG and Mark III pianos, including the Pros. Specifically, it replaces these control units:

DKC 500R
DKC 500RXG
DKC 500RW
DKC 500RWXG
DKC 50R
DKC 55
DKC 55RCD
DKC 55CDD
DKC 60RCD

At the moment, if you replace one of these control units, you SHOULD NOT throw the old one away as it is needed for maintenance purposes. That may change, however.

The Mark II pianos (DCK100R or the built-in control unit with the rotary dial) can use the DKC-850 if it is connected by MIDI cables to the old control unit. Unfortunately, the Disklavier Radio feature is not available in this situation.

Earlier models, such as the MX80, MX100A&B, and wagon grand can also use the DKC-850 connected by MIDI cables to the old control unit. However, you have to have a working floppy drive in the old control unit with a floppy inserted.

Regards,
PianoBench

On Mar 14, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Phil Becker wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know for sure if the DKC-850 will work with the Millenium (year
> 2000) DC3 Pro (the most orphaned Disklavier ever)?
> 
> The Pro sits sort of between the MKII and MKIII (though it's mostly an
> ugraded MKIII in functionality) and it uses the DKC500RW controller which I
> believe was only used by this enhanced resolution model.
> 
> I love the piano, but the controller now feels like it was made 40 years
> ago. I have so many work arounds to use it in my studio and I'd love to get
> it up to date controller-wise, but can't tell from everything I read if the
> DKC-850 will in fact drive this particular piano model or not.