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Re: Surprise! Surprise!

2006-04-19 by Jorge Fernandez

Great!
Thanks Terry for the note.
Just couldn't wait more to listen so I tried them here at my office.
(During lunch time, of course).

They work nice, but I figure my own setup to make them a little more 
realistic.
(Just a mater of persona taste)
If you have cakewalk, here is a CAL macro to automate my setup.
You can adapt it to your own feelings.
(Note I use channel 0ne for the DKV piano part)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
(do
	(TrackChannel 1 0)
	(TrackChannel 2 1)
	(TrackChannel 3 2)
	(TrackChannel 4 3)
	(TrackChannel 10 4)
	(TrackChannel 5 5)
	(TrackPatch 58 0)
	(TrackPatch 72 1)
	(TrackPatch 73 2)
	(TrackPatch 72 3)
	(TrackPatch 57 4)
	(TrackVolume 110 0)
	(TrackVolume 100 1)
	(TrackVolume 120 2)
	(TrackVolume 100 3)
	(TrackVolume 90 4)
	(TrackPan 16 0)
	(TrackPan 32 1)	
	(TrackPan 64 2)
	(TrackPan 96 3)
	(TrackPan 112 4)

	; optional for XG --:
	(TrackPatch 26 4)
	(TrackBank 16256 4)
	;------------------
)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Terry Smythe <smythe@...> wrote:
>
> Got a surprise phone call today from an owner of a Disklavier 
> upright piano, which over the phone he started up playing my 
> Wurlitzer 125 band organ midi files.    Quite astonishing to 
> hear this over the phone.    
> 
> He has a little Yamaha TG100 synth tone generator sitting on top 
> of his piano, with a pair of small hi-end speakers also on top 
> at each end, and a bass reverb type speaker on the floor behind. 
> It is hooked to the Disklavier with a midi-in/out cable.  
> 
> He had downloaded my batch 22, within which is a pair of zip 
> files - W125_Known and W125_Unknown.    Not knowing the 
> significance of individual zip files, everything was dumped into 
> a single directory.   He loaded floppies with ~40 files each.
> 
> He had his TG100 turned on while playing my files, and somewhere 
> in the middle, it sprang to life when one of my W125 files 
> entered the queue and "played" all the non-piano voices in 
> synch with the piano, which somehow is able to sort out 
> the melody alone.   
> 
> See also a news item from 1992 about this newly introduced 
> device:
> 
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Oct_19/ai
> _12711482
> 
> Amazing!    Just never know what will emerge through the magic 
> and power of the internet.    Anybody else discover this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Terry
> 
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