Disklavier

MIDI files are referred to as "import files" in the Yamaha Disklavier
Owner's Manuals.  Fro MarkIIXG owners, it is Chapter 8, The Disklavier and
MIDI in the burgany colored Advanced book starting on page 67.  Starting on
page 77 is the section on Playing Back Import Files. Setting the L and R
(Channel settings of 1 and 2(or more)) is easy.

With the DKV on, press the Function button.  Press the -> next to the MIDI
setup option, then press Enter.   With the cursor next to the Piano Part
option, press enter. Then press the  cursor (->) twice.  When the display
says Import File L>01  R=## this means that only Channel 1 has been
selected. Put the cursor in front of R= and select Prg. Then hit Enter and
you are done!

Now your Disklavier will play all piano parts in the first 8 piano type
instruments in MIDI on your keyboard.

Carol Beigel



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chine-Chine Wang" <chine@...>
To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] A reply to your message.


>
> At 11:08 PM 1/8/2004, Walt wrote:
> > ... I am unaware of a setting where the DKV piano will play
> > files on disk to channel 1&2 and send all other channels
> > to speakers. There are ways to edit each individual file
> > from the controller so they will eventually play for you
> > but a far better way to do that is with a computer.
> >
> > On the other hand, if I play the midi to the DKV from my
> > laptop via my USB MidiSport interface, I can set my
> > control unit so it will play channel 1 or 1&2 on the piano
> > and send all the rest to the speakers. However, I recently
> > learned that I can also set the control unit to find piano
> > parts on any channel where the various piano or piano-like
> > parts appear.
> >...
>
> Walt,
>
> There are 2 places on the control unit where you can enter the piano
> channel options you described.  One setting is for playing MIDI files on
> floppy directly from the control unit, the other setting is for playing
the
> MIDI or "To Host" input data.  You need to set it on both places to, say,
> Prg(All), if you want MIDI data to be handled the same way whether using
> floppy or computer input.
>
> At least, this is how it works on my MarkIIXG, as much as I can
> remember.  I apologize for not being very precise as to where these
> settings are.  I am still away from my DKV, DKV manual, and computer with
> Cakewalk, at a time all this interesting MIDI conversation is going
> on...  Very frustrating!
>
> CCW