Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

In a message dated 5/9/02 7:30:35 PM, Tony writes:

<< I apologize as this may be slightly off-topic for this group, but I am 
having trouble getting my Mac to "talk" to my disklavier. I'm using a 
midiman USB connection and OMS does send test notes ok to the 
disklavier. The disklavier also sends to the midiman ok. My problem is 
getting micrologic (sequencer) to talk with the midiman/disklavier.

Does anyone have any experience with this software? >>

I do not have experience with micrologic, but I do have experience with many 
other Macintosh programs.

If OMS can send notes to the Disklavier, can micrologic do the same?

Places where people often have trouble are these:

(1) OMS is flaky. I use a USB interface with a portable Mac. I am always 
finding that I need to have OMS rescan for the MIDI interface after it has 
been disconnected and reconnected. Then, I need to relaunch my MIDI program.

(2) The Disklavier has a split personality: It is really 2 MIDI devices in 
one, a piano and a tone generator. Unless you have properly coordinated your 
sequencer's MIDI send channel(s) with the Disklavier's MIDI receive 
channel(s), playback on the piano itself may not occur. Assuming that your 
Disklavier has a built in tone generator, playback should at least take place 
on the tone generator since it will play all channels not played by the 
piano. However, the speakers must be turned on and the volume turned up.

(3) The Disklavier has 3 MIDI Out settings. If you wish to play on the keys 
and send MIDI to the computer, be sure that you have set MIDI Out to Keyboard 
Out. If you wish to play a disk and have the data on the disk sent out, set 
MIDI Out = Ensemble Out and also find the setting for Piano ESBL Out and set 
it to On.

Hope that helps.

Regards.
PianoBench