Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

In a message dated 1/25/03 1:13:48 PM, Don writes:

<< I recently purchased Cakewalk and now need to buy a card 
and cable so I can connect to my MX80.  Any advice would be 
appreciated. I'm a PC user running XP. Am currently listening to 
music through a game card that has no midi connectors.  >>

Although your game card does not have MIDI connectors, it will work with a 
joystick/MIDI adapter if it has a joystick port. These adapaters also have a 
pass-through connector for additionally attaching a joystick. The 
joystick/MIDI adapter makes use of MIDI drivers that should have been 
installed at the factory along with your game card. 

The adapter has one MIDI In and one MIDI out connector at the other end. 
Determining which one to connect to the Disklavier's MIDI In and Out ports is 
not always obvious, but trial-and-error will provide a solution.

Robert's suggestion of a USB MIDI interface is also a good one.  Yamaha makes 
a nice one called the UX16. It has one MIDI In and one MIDI Out connector. It 
comes with a USB driver for you to install. A slightly fancier model is the 
UX96 with has one MIDI In, one MIDI out, and one To Host serial connector.

The Yamaha interfaces also work with Macintosh System 9.x and below (assuming 
that you have USB). Thus far, there have been no drivers made for OS X.

Regards,
PianoBech