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Re: Smartkey

2003-08-07 by midi_magic2000

Hi Jean

What is smartkey? Is it the same as CueTime? I thought only the 
Clavinovas had these.
If this is so, then yes most of the commands are in the format of the 
Sysex. 
If you could send a file over I will have a look at it.

Midi Magic





--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Jean Debefve" <pubjean@w...> 
wrote:
> 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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