Kawai CA97 sample videos

I enjoyed your playing in these videos. I have never heard the Tchaikovsky piece before. Lovely.

Looking at the specs for the Kawai CA97, I see that it has both midi connections and a Line-in jack, which leads to the obvious question: Have you tried playing Pianoteq with it, routing the sound to the CA97's speakers?

I noticed one parameter that I don't think I've see in a digital piano before, "Hammer Delay," which the manual (page 80 and page 93) says can "Adjust the delay of the hammer striking strings when playing pianissimo," with the idea being that an older, badly regulated piano may have "a perceived delay between a key being
pressed and the hammer striking the strings." I've certainly experienced this effect on older pianos, but more on individual notes than across the entire keyboard. On the Kawai, it appears to be a universal parameter--all of the keys are affected. The parameter is turned off by default. Have you tried it out? Any change in the feel of the instrument?

Any chance of a demo or two that plays Pianoteq through the Kawai's speakers? I'm partly interested in hearing how the instrument's sound board affects Pianoteq. Complicated, of course, and the sound would depend on your mics, etc, but it would be of interest, despite the many variables.

I wonder if the Depth control is actually an envelope control--the higher the setting, the deeper the curve? Or would it be an inverted Vel -> Delay modulation? Seems as though it would be hard to tell the difference between these two ways of modulating the delay. (?)

Any chance of you posting a video demonstrating how the change in settings affects the sound and playing?

Yes, you may have thought that you were starting a conversation about your great new instrument, but I'm trying to drag you into a technical discussion! Sorry about that...