Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

I agree with Mark’s recommended solution and the reasoning behind it.

Having said that, I’ll answer the part about sending out the piano part as MIDI data when you play the song file.

In the MIDI Setup area of older Disklaviers, there is an important MIDI Out setting, a choice between Keyboard Out and either Ensemble Out or Delay Out. The Keyboard Out choice sends MIDI data when you play the keys yourself. The alternative choice sends MIDI data when you play a song file.

If the Disklavier knows which tracks are the piano tracks, the Disklavier does not send them out via MIDI by default when you switch the MIDI Out setting to Ensemble Out or Delay Out  That setting was probably designed for the person who wants to use an external tone generator for the non-piano tracks.

Nonetheless, there is an additional setting that you can make that will adjust the Ensemble Out or Delay Out mode so that the piano track data is sent as well. The menu item is call Piano Part Ensemble Out. If you turn that setting to On, you’ll get the desired result when you play the song file.

Regards,
PianoBench


> On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:54 AM, Mark Fontana mark@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> If your music is on commercial floppy disks, you can extract MIDI or ESEQ format using a USB floppy drive and http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu <http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu> running on a Windows PC (you'll need to download a floppy device driver from Microsoft if running Windows 10).  If your floppies are all self-recorded (your own playing), you probably won't need to use PPFBU; the disks should be readable with just Windows and a USB floppy drive.
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> You should not transfer your music by playing it in real time over wireline MIDI.  Not only is this slow, but it will also distort the timing and result in a copy that's slightly inferior to the original.
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> On 12/18/2016 05:43 AM, larsmagnus@... <mailto:larsmagnus@musiker.nu> [disklavier] wrote:
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>> Before I update hardware to DKC-850 I thought I could try to play and save my old songs and capture them via MIDI out to my ipad. (I don't have a floppy disk) But it seems impossible to send a recorded piano part out via any MIDI out option. Anyone have comments or solutions on this? 
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