Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

In a message dated 6/9/02 2:49:54 PM, Ting writes:

<< I am trying to use Finale on my PowerPC 8500 to play songs on my
MarkII XG disklavier. I am connecting through modem port to "To Host"
with 8 pin printer cable.

I am really lost. Can anyone give me any hint and suggestions? >>

Tom gave you good advice regarding the installation of an important Yamaha 
MIDI driver. However, that advice only applies to Windows computers. Since 
you have a Macintosh, you do not need the Yamaha driver (and could not 
install it if you tried). Also, since you have an older Mac with serial ports 
and a program that has its own, built-in serial port MIDI driver, you do not 
need to install any other Macintosh MIDI driver software.

Simply attach your serial cable to both your Mac's modem port and to your 
Disklavier's To Host port. Make sure that the Disklaveir's To Host switch 
near the serial port is set to "Mac."

In the Finale MIDI Setup dialog box, choose the Modem port for MIDI output 
(and input if you wish to enter notes from your Diskklavier keyboard). At 
this point, everything should work just fine IF:

(1) Your Macintosh modem port is not tied up by some other program. For 
example, AppleTalk can be set to use the modem port. If so, this will prevent 
the port from being used by Finale for MIDI. Also, the HotSync software that 
comes with either the Palm Desktop or the Claris Organizer program can 
monopolize that port unless you turn off the HotSync feature.

(2) Each staff in Finale is assigned to the appropriate MIDI channel. Check 
the MIDI Receive channel on you Disklavier. That setting determines which 
channel data is played by the Disklavier. All other channels are played by 
the tone generator (which means that you must have speakers attached to the 
Disklavier and turned on in order to hear those other tracks).

Regards,
PianoBench