I suspect that this 2002 DKV MIII needed calibration. In my experience, the Disklavier is designed pretty well to avoid dropping notes. That is one reason why earlier models played the softest notes at some minimum velocity--about 25 for grands and 35 for uprights--regardless as to how low the actual recorded velocity was.
Regards,
PianBench
On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Wethington, P wrote:
This is not new information regarding the midi info. I did an experiment with my 2002 DKV MIII when I first got it. I noticed that pieces I recorded weren't being played back as well as they were recorded, the softer notes dropped out.
So I used a separate program (Digital Performer) and recorded specific velocity information for each note, trying to identify why notes were being dropped. What I found were velocities below a certain level wouldn't trigger and velocities above another level didn't increase in volume. I finally determined that the bandwidth was approximately half of the 0-127 range.
This is not so with the DKV M-IV.