Disklavier

Hi

So the Audio channel is in Mono out from the Piano?
What do you do with the Right channel?
How do you get it to play the piano?
Is there a program that will convert the Audio data back to Midi?

Dave



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "George F. Litterst" 
<PianoBench@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>