Disklavier

There are others on this list who are far more familiar with the MIDI 
workings and pass-throughs than I am, so they will probably chime in at 
their convenience.  If you want to interface your Roland, you need to 
connect it to the DKV thru the MIDI ports on the Control Box, not the Sound 
Controller (?) that I am assuming you mean the amplifier under the piano.

There  is MIDI and there is analog MIDI.  Anytime you are using a CD, you 
are using analog MIDI.  When you use sequencer software, the memory or 
floppy disks, you are using the MIDI that you can totally play around with.  
The audio CDs that contain singing also contain MIDI data (on another track) 
that play the piano keys.  The orchestra sounds can be audio on a CD, but 
they are MIDI Ensemble sounds when they are on a PianoSoft floppy disk, and 
come thru a soundcard in the control box - not the amplifier.

You can turn off the MIDI delay or leave it at 500 msecs.  Check the 
instrucitons for pass-thru and controller issues.

You might be able to make your own audio/MIDI CDs using software that mixes 
audio and MIDI, but I don't know if they will play in a Disklavier.

I believe the DKV only records what you play on the keyboard on Channels 1 
and 2.  Percussion tracks play back on a DKV on  Channel 10.  Perhaps you 
could mix the percussion tracks off the Roland with a keyboard performance 
on the DKV using sequencing software and a computer!  It seems to me that 
you might be able to render those percussion tracks to .wav files and burn 
them to a CD.  Then put the CD into the DKV and use PianoSmart with its MIDI 
Time Code to record a piano accompaniment.  But then again, I have not tried 
this.

There is some really good information in the archives of this website.  Some 
of us are content to just listen to our pianos, while others know all about 
the MIDI and how those CDs are made.

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...



>From: "fkagel" <fkagel@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Re: Pianosoft Plus
>Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 00:00:58 -0000
>
>Carol,
>
>Thnx for the comeback....
>

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