If you are interested in it, I just added here an example of a custom wedge to flatten the top of the VPC1 for a laptop or anything else.
Have fun,
David
]]>Let me know if it helps...
David-san
]]>Thanks for the link. This looks an excellent solution for me also. Please tell me the height and width of the part holding the sheets. There are no dimensions on their webpage.
Ian
]]>As for the contraption in itself, it's the smoothest-running Kawai I've ever had. I'd prefer better repetition than it gives me, but that's partly my own deficiency and in any case is again the best Kawai I've had, at it. Ostinato repetition is a frill characterising display-writing anyway - and that mode's losing charm for me.
The most objective remark that's been made on VPC1 has got to be the Modartt engineers' correction curve for it. I'd sure like to know more about their measurement methods but haven't asked. On the face of it, it says that VPC1 delivers velocity more readily in the middle of the keyboard. INSERT: This is plain wrong, should read "delivers output velocity over-amply in the midrange of keystroke forces input", so the Modartt curve supplies the needed pullback to the midrange output.
And back to sigasa once more, his 3-point 2-range approximations to the Modartt correction point out a major miss-the-mark by Kawai in sticking with the Standard Midi File format. This was not just unadventurous, but sigasa's mf..pp range points out (more forcefully than does the Modartt curve it approximates to) the weakness of SMF for correction curves which properly WORK, and in the case of VPC1, right where that's most needed.
I had a more detailed discussion with sigasa about this, you probably saw.
]]>Have you any general comments to make about the VPC-1? I'm curious why some folk have removed the let off rubber part? Surely it is there to mimic acoustic action and to help the player be consistent when moving back and forward between acoustic and digital?
Ian
]]>I am interested in all aspects of automation (I used to repair CNC machines) but I think the cost of such an animal sitting mostly unused is putting me off a purchase. I also have been shocked at the cost of setting up multi-coloured feedstock.
So I think my modification of Kawai VPC-1 brackets will remain at the hand-made perspex level. Let me know how you get on with your modification. Who knows you might end up selling them.
Ian
]]>Even the shortcomings have their own payoffs, e.g., the lowered resolution of the copies (beginning with the scans themselves and following with the 'terracing' - usually smoothed by unpleasant acetone sessions - of the plastic printups) can contribute, if one continues forwarding a model by overpainting a printup in acrylic gesso, then filing down. Failures won't matter now.
The new printer models have just left the News phase, and a webinar 2 days ago says the middle model (~$US 3K), clearly the update to my 2X, was actually selling. Watch their product page, which probably needs updating, while meantime they travel on fullfilling their preorders queue - which with chagrin I couldn't join, a thousand curses.
They sure kept their development quiet, while actually SELLING me what they were replacing it with!
ADDED: here's a recording of the webinar (hope it works).
]]>Ian
]]>Piano arrived, you'll see, 2 small irregular 'chocks' can be designed which will join the down-projecting part of the T-section 'lintel' to the 'pitiable plastic holders' mentioned above, dowel-fashion. The objections to the 'holders' then won't arise, for they arose on account of the VPC1's wirestand projecting rearward of the piano, where with this contraption the weight-bearing parts are brought inboard of the piano's depth, and there supported by the piano-top. It'll succeed.
I look forward with great interest to seeing your modification. What 3D printer did you purchase?
Ian
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