Glenn,
A few more things. Tech Support at Yamaha
recommended VanBasco.com for a free midi player. It has a slider that you can
use to adjust the volume/jvelocity and will remember your settings on the
playlist for each song. A lot of the midi's you download on the Internet have
too much volume/velocity and play the Disklavier too hard. That could overheat
the key solenoids and beat up the moving parts and felt on the hammers etc.
Go to the section in your manual for Receiving Data
from a Midi Sequencer and learn the settings. The Prg(all) setting works best
for me for Midi's from the Internet.
The best way to find midi's on the Internet is to
go to http://www.google.com/ search window, put the most unique part of a
song title or a composer's name in quotes (if it's more than one word) and then
add a + symbol and the word midi or you can even add the composer's name like
the below. I used this to find the Spinning Song my sister used to play when I
was a kid.
"spinning song"+ellmenreich+midi
Or "elton John"+mid
Here's another interesting search:
"heart and soul"+midi
I found a big collection of piano oldies
plus the old time favorite the kids used to bang
out on the piano at summer camp - "Heart and Soul"
Here it is:
Another version:
I was looking for a song about a local inn. The
Stockton NJ Inn. It's a Rogers & Hart tune called There's a Small
Hotel.
I did this search "Small Hotel"+midi and came up
with this great site:
Another good search is "piano
solo"+midi
Or take a guess at a midi file name like
this:
"i love a piano.mid"
Walt
----- Original Message -----From: GDPERRY@...Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 6:59 PMSubject: Re: [disklavier] A novel idea for playing midi from PCWalt,
Thanks for the great idea. I'm in the need of USB/MIDI adapter like the one
you use. What brand and model is it? I have a ThinkPad 600E that has no sounds
or midi drivers. I hope I can do what you have done.
Glen