Hi All,
I am relatively new to the Disklavier world having recently bought a MX-84 with DKC5R. Its old, but it plays beautifully for the price.
When i bought the piano, my intent was always to hook up an old laptop i have to it permanently and download free midi songs and lets them play for hours. After more work than i would have ever imagined, I finally got the hook up to play properly. Windows and MIDI do not seem to get along well.
Anyway, now my question to the group is when i play a playlist, out of nowhere i get a message on the DKC5R that shows "MIDI Data Error - press stop to continue". The music keeps playing without incident for the most part. When i press stop, there is a slight skip and then the music continues without incident except this message will pop up again eventually.
I have also had a few MIDI files cause the piano to go haywire and play seemingly random notes. I think this may be because the recording is using other than piano instrumentation on midi channels 1 and 2 but im not sure of the either.
I would greatly appreciate any help with this as my greatest fear is that i will break the DKC5R and then be stuck with no way to fix it.
If anyone needs to know how i went about getting the MIDI and Windows to work, just let me know and i am more than happy to share. It took a lot of trial and error.
thank you
Carl