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Re: [disklavier] PowerTracks and settings
2003-11-15 by PianoBench@aol.com
In addition to the advice that you have received, I would suggest:
--Turn off "enabled thru"--it is not needed in your situation.
--I agree that you should select the CBX driver for MIDI Input and Output and disable the other drivers
--On the Disklavier, I would suggest setting the Piano Receive Channel to PRG(All). That way, it does not matter what channel the piano track is on, the Disklavier will still play it. The only oddity will be the occasional file that has another piano group voice, such as harpsichor, that you may prefer the Disklavier's tone generator to play.
If you would like your web browser to play MIDI files on your piano, try the following:
Windows 98 (and probably Windows ME)
Start:Settings:Control Panel:Multimedia
click the Multimedia tab in the Multimedia Control Panel window
choose Single Instrument
under Singele Instrument, make your selection for the desired choice for MIDI output
Windows 2000
Start:Settings:Control Panel:Sounds and Multimedia Properties
click the Audio tab in the Sounds and Multimedia Properties window
under MIDI Music Playback, make your selection for the desired choice for MIDI output
Windows XP
Start:Control Panel
(1) if the next window is set to Categories View, click Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices
then click Sounds and Audio Devices
click the Audio tab in the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties window
under MIDI Music Playback, make your selection for the desired choice for MIDI output
or
(2) if the next window is set to Classic View, click Sounds and Audio Devices
click the Audio tab in the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties window
under MIDI Music Playback, make your selection for the desired choice for MIDI output
Regards,
PianoBench
In a message dated 11/15/03 12:35:16 AM, kwfla@... writes:
It's midnight and I'm bushed from thinking. Guess I'll try tomorrow
again. I've got the PowerTracks demo loaded. The piano is connected
with the cbx driver installed and the switch on the unit moved to PC2
but I can't seem to get anything working other than the demo songs
coming out of my computer speakers. I hope this demo lets me play the
piano through it and not just giving me some idea of what the software
looks like. There's just too many settings to know. Any of them could
be wrong or right.
A few of my settings are:
I have "enabled thru" checked.
Input drivers I have
ESS MPU-401 (8480) and YAMAHA CBX Driver (with the Yamaha CBX Driver
highlighted.
Under the MIDI Devices menu of the software options I have,
Input drivers I have
ESS MPU-401 (8480) and YAMAHA CBX Driver (with the Yamaha CBX Driver
highlighted.
Output Drivers , in order from top to bottom:
ESS MPU-401 (8480),
YAMAHA CBX A Driver,
MIDI Mapper,
ESFM Synthesis (8400),
(with the Top two drivers highlighted)
If any of this makes sense or if someone knows of a web page that
would guide me through setting up this software, I'd appreciate it.
I've tried reading the help menu and it doesn't make sense to me.
Many Thanks, Mike