Disklavier

Hello Everyone,

Jorge, I may have spoken too soon on the Windows Media Player. It has
hiccupped some after more extensive use. Plus, I seem to have screwed
up the WMP audio driver and can't listen to mp3s (or system wave
sounds for that matter) any longer. I've since gone back to VanBasco
(for the time being) and Power Tracks Pro Audio for my editing and
finessing.

My hardware setup is a Pentium PC with the Yamaha UX-16 USB midi
interface. I overcame the 2-meter USB cable limitation for the roughly
25' cabled run to the piano with (2) 16' self-powered amplified USB
cables (which the manufacturer of escapes me) which work great. The
DSR1's Disklavier setting of course delays the ensemble voice the
required 500ms, so all I had to do was delay the karaoke lyrics 500ms
in VanBasco. I did find the ability to monitor the midi voices
graphically in VanBasco so very useful, especially when listening to a
selection that I've downloaded for the first time and then if the file
has merit, saving the it with a useful name direct from VanBasco. I
just have to mentally adjust the half-second delay of the sound after
the graphics.

WMP does see my Yamaha Midi driver as well as the midi mapper as all
my other windows music software, by the way.

Again, I'm crazy about the setup, but I guess it's like everything
else, 10% better is usually %200 or more money or effort. I'll post on
this if I ever figure something out that is consistent. 

Fred

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Jorge Fernandez" <jorgefedez@g...>
wrote:
>
> 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.