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Smartkey

2003-08-06 by Jean Debefve

Hi all,

Despite a long search into the user's manuals, I still do not know how
to build Smartkey midi files. I guess there are SysEx involved
(special factory codes for the midi instruments) but I can't manage to
get my laborious trials work, and I get no answers from Yamaha (on
Holydays, lucky guys...)
I've been said that the "Smartkey Software" was public, and CueTime as
well. 
Anybody heard of a software converting DKV commands like "Guides" "Key
prompt", "Keyrepeat" into a midi code I could glue into my Cubase
sequencer's midi files ?

Jean Debefve
Theatre de Galafronie
belgium


PS the DU1A piano is rehearsing in a room situated just under a flat
zinc roof. The temperature is about 39° Celsius (102 Fahrenheit). The
actors are sweating buckets. Onecharacter is sleeping under a giant
quill. The other wears a "wolf fur coat" that once in a while becomes
a wolf suit. North Pole atmosphere... 

As the heat wave seems to be there for about 2.500 years ;-) , I'm
afraid the temperatures won't change muche before the end of August,
when our show will have its Premiere.   Do I have to fear thermostat
failure ? At which room temperature do I have to provide extra
cooling, just in case? (the tunes the piano plays will not be very
loud or use sixteen notes chords...) Does the humidity rate matter ?
(audiences tend to breathe a lot during a 100° Fahrenheit performance...)
Oh my ...

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