Disklavier

Hello PianoBench,

Do these require ethernet or just tcp/ip? The latter is much more 
interesting (in my opinion) as I can run TCP/IP over more things than 
ethernet.

Do you have any links for the software do this? The ones I have found so 
far all use their own protocols (like the one I wrote) or aren't that 
easy to hook together with standard apps. For example, it would be nice 
to use Cubase upstairs with the disklavier downstairs, using a virtual 
midi driver (I can run long balanced mic cables to my piano, but MIDI is 
harder as long cable lengths don't work so well - using a network 
connection would be much easier).

The best so far to me look to be the ones based on this RTP standard.

Cheers,

James





George F. Litterst wrote:
>
> Good morning, everyone.
>
> There are both Macintosh and Windows solutions for MIDI over
> ethernet. However, they require a computer at the receiving end. This
> means that if you want to send MIDI to your Disklavier over ethernet
> from a computer in another part of your house, you need a computer
> connected to your Disklavier to receive the data and then pass it on
> to the Disklavier.
>
> Regards,
> PianoBench
>
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:44 PM, James Fry wrote:
>
> > The question of whether it is possible to send MIDI over a TCP/IP
> > network has been asked on the disklavier lists several times over the
> > last couple of years, with no real concrete answers (although the RTP
> > MIDI standard has been around in draft form for some time).
> >
> > In November, the IETF formally issued the proposed standard for RTP
> > MIDI
> > as an RFC - details are available here
> > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/rtpmidi/index.html 
> <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Elazzaro/rtpmidi/index.html>
> >
> > OSX already supports this protocol for its MIDI network driver. If we
> > can find one for Windows, and a mechanism for Linux we could see an
> > explosion of new MIDI tools.
>
>