Disklavier

Nice to see it helped.

I, myself, have a not solved problem with media players; all of 
these only handle the standard "MidiMapper"; 16 channels in one MIDI 
port.

But I have Roland Sound Canvas inside the PC (besides the 
SoundBlaster card).
This way I can have 32 MIDI channels (one for the DKV and 15 for 
orchestral sounds (2 Percussion sets)
This is, from the PC to the DKV via to host serial cable and then 
from the DKV to the Canvas card via MIDI cable, so I let the DKV 
handle his 500 ms latency time.

As far as I know, only the player bundled with CakeWalk can handle 
this setup AND also play lists, but with cakewalk  and WAV files 
only and, of course, no library, MP3, nice visualizations and so on.

So when a set any other player to play from a play list; (mixing 
MIDI, MP3, etc.); I have to use only the 16 MIDI channels of the DKV 
or the internal sound cards.

Is 32 MIDI channels really needed?
Well, of course not, but I make nice effects and more natural sounds 
when dubbing sound form the XG in the DKV with sounds from banks of 
the (vintage) Roland card. 

The bad news are that I do'nt think there will be, in the near 
future, a free WMP that handles more than one MIDI port.

Regards.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Dismuke" <freddismuke@b...> 
wrote:
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> Greetings Jorge,
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