Disklavier

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, George F. Litterst wrote:

> The lyric feature is available in the Mark IV. What is missing are
> MIDI files with great piano parts that that also use the lyric
> feature.


Tom Lear has taken a bunch of MIDI files derived from piano rolls and 
added lyrics to them.  They're hosted on Richard Stibbons' site:

   http://www.stibbons.com/karaoke.html

I've tested these on a Pianocorder system equipped with the 3' wide LED
matrix sign attachment for displaying lyrics (Superscan Display Console)  
and the lyrics show up OK.  The files also play OK in VanBasco's karaoke
player (a free MIDI karaoke player for Windows available at
http://www.vanbasco.com).

As far as I can tell, the karaoke information in Tom's files is in Tune
1000 format, so these ought to work on a Mark IV.  If they don't, only
minimal changes would be required to fix them (such as adding a missing 
header field or something similar).  We can determine what's missing by 
comparing a file that works with a file that doesn't work.

Mark Fontana