Disklavier

I have been involved with computers for 40 years and have been in the 
computer training business for 25 years. In spite of that fact, it 
wasn't good enough for musician wife. She sent me off to a Choir 
College to learn the grand daddy of all scoring programs, Finale.

There comes a time, when you yourself have to judge how you learn 
best: from a book or manual, a machine (the Internet, CD, tape), or 
from a live person at a college, music school, or training center 
such as mine. Having said that, also consider forming or joining a 
face-to-face DKV users group. I am sure that a local music store 
would be more than willing to host such a group monthly as it brings 
in more potential customers. 

Expecting Yamaha to help you learn to computerize your DKV is akin to 
asking the auto manufacturer to teach you to drive or change the oil. 
Unless education and training is a profit center for the company, the 
company will consider it an expense. Yeh, PR, good-will, loyalty, 
blah, blah, blah.

Actually, Yamaha does have a profit center in the way of Yamaha Music 
Education and a pretty darn good one (geared for young children and 
aimed at the musical side, not the computer side).

I have dabbled with MIDI for quite some time now and never have found 
any one source to be gospel. I started with Electronic Musician 
magazine, bought MIDI for Musicians book, read the Passport manuals, 
took a two semester non-credit course on Voyetra Sequencer Plus for 
DOS in which I had to compose, read the MIDI section of every manual 
of every MIDI synthezier my wife has bought, read every post on this 
BBS since June when we got our DKV, participate on the BBS when I 
can, play with MIDI sequencing software and actually read the tips, 
and in the final analysis, just try something and see if it works or 
not.

Best,
Fred


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Becker"
> 
>      I hope Yamaha hears your comments.  After 3 years with a DC3A 
Pro, I must say you have stated what I feel quite learly. I have 
computer professional for over 30 years, so I'm used to technology 
but learning how to interface with and use the computerized features 
of my Disklavier has been one of the toughest learning curves I've 
ever had.  Once I learn some   part of it, everything works extremely 
well and I'm thrilled with the result....