Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

On Dec 6, 2006, at 2:49 PM, ISKI1@... wrote:

> If I understand you correctly it sounds like you can rip the Piano  
> Soft CD's into the Itunes library and play them with the computer  
> connected to the Disklavire midi input.
> Is that correct?

This is partially correct.

In my earlier post, I was referring to PianoSoft Plus Audio CDs.  
These CDs have regular audio (singer, orchestra, etc.) on the left  
channel and so-called analog MIDI on the right channel. Analog MIDI  
is MIDI data encoded as audio.

When you rip these CDs, you get something that you would not want to  
hear out of stereo speakers. The data going to the right speaker is  
intended for the piano. So, the thing to do is to connect both  
channels of audio (not MIDI) out from your computer to the audio  
inputs of your Mark III or DCD1 or to the Audio Omni Input of your  
Mark IV. Then, when you play the song in iTunes, the two channels of  
audio data will be passed on to the keyboard or to your Disklavier's  
speakers as appropriate.

NOTE: On a Mark IV, you must access the Audio setup screen and set  
Omni In to "Analog MIDI-YM." Also, when playing directly out of  
iTunes, be sure to turn off Sound Enhancer in the Playback preferences.

Regards,
PianoBench