Disklavier

It seems that with what we already know, we could probably come up with a fairly cool App that simulates MIDI over ethernet.

Given this project which can tell the piano to play a file, and the ability to drop midi files into a folder via ethernet, I think the two can be combined into an app which lets you point at a directory anywhere on your network, and one by one, copy the file to the piano, play it, and delete it when it is done...The files are so small that the delay would likely be unobtrusive, and, you can probably send the next file over while one is playing to avoid it entirely.

Any value in something like that?  Maybe sit it right on top of some other software's database? 

-Kevin

----- Original Message ----
From: athomik <mail@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:57:57 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Alternative to tablet and PDA for MKIV









  


    
            



I've barely looked at LINUX, so I'm not sure how useful it is, but there is some code available at 



 



http://www.global. yamaha.com/ download/ disklavier_ markiv/





athomik



On Oct 24 2007, James Fry wrote: 



>I also have a software background (and some hardware experience) and 

>took a look at the MarkIV software.

>

>The MarkIV doesn't run RedHat, its an embedded distribution based on 

>Redhat (as are many distros) that runs on a non-x86 cpu. Mounting the 

>disk is likely easy, but not very useful. You can see quite a lot of 

>stuff on the MarkIV install CDs, but I don't think there is anything 

>useful there for the hobbyist hoping to make a PC based controller - its 

>all for a different CPU, and all of the useful software is proprietary 

>Yamaha software and will likely have licensing restriction. There are 

>some playable media files there, but nothing interesting.

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