Disklavier

If that will work, it would be good enough for what I'm trying to do, I'll try to figure that out.

I do know how to assign the various channels 1,2,3,4...16, but not sure how to change voicing part:
   "beat 2, set up patch changes"
That's what I need to figure out still.

--Laurence


> On Jun 5, 2017, at 8:35 AM, 'George F. Litterst' PianoBench@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Good morning, everyone.
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> Laurence, are you referring to the sounds that you can access with the Voice button on the DKC-850? If so, I know of no way to trigger those sounds by way of an external MIDI command.
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> However, you can treat the Disklavier has a 16-channel, XG MIDI playback device and set up voices on any 15 of the 16 channels (at least one channel will be designated as the piano itself).
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> Imagine this scenario:
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> (1) Set up the Disklavier to receive on MIDI channel 1. That will be the piano channel and incoming MIDI data on all other channels will be routed to the XG tone generator.
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> (2) Set up a MIDI file in ProTools or another sequencer. Put an XG Reset System Exclusive message at the beginning of the MIDI file on channel 1. On measure 1, beat 2, set up patch changes and volume levels (controller 7) for the other sounds that you wish to use, assigning each sound to a unique MIDI channel.
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> (3) Turn on the sequencer’s MIDI Thru function and route all incoming-MIDI data from the Disklavier to all of the channels to which you have assigned sounds.
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> (4) Press the Play button in your sequencer in order to send the XG Reset message and the various patch and volume level messages for the other voices. Let your setup measure play one full measure and then press Stop.
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> (5) At this point, you should be ready to play the notes on the piano. When you do, your note-on messages will be transmitted to your sequencer and will then be looped back to the Disklavier’s XG tone generator.
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> Regards,
> PianoBench
> 
>> On Jun 4, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Laurence Dorazio squirrelmeat@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Am I the only person that's ever tried using my DKC-850 Disklavier with Protools (11) and / or MainStage or anything like it on a MacBook?
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>> I'm trying to set something up, so I can easily utilize the built-in "voices" / channels for various sounds and keyboards, where you can just hit "Organ - 60sDrOr3" (which is number 066 from the manual), and several other "presets" like that. We want to use this Disklavier as more than just acoustic piano, since it has everything built in for it.
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>> Just can't seem to figure out a good way to do that. So my "main goal" is to setup some t ype of software or whatever, that will let me have several "presets" for voices (for instance: 066 60sDrOr2, 012 ElGrPno2, 031 Harpsi. etc.)
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>> For typical keyboards, there are files that Protools (for instance) recognizes "oh that's a Yamaha MOXF8, therefore this channel, that channel, etc.. is organ, piano, etc." click click
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