Disklavier

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 joel@... wrote:

> Does this mean I can connect my Mark III disklavier to an Airport Express,
> which will then talk wirelessly to my mac (which has Airport), allowing me
> to play midi¹s from my computer and the internet?


I think that actually would work, if your Disklavier is equipped with
"ANALOG MIDI IN" RCA jacks.  You'd connect the audio output of the
Airport Express to these jacks, then play CDs (or more likely, ripped
versions of them) from your Mac to the piano over the wireless link.  
That could be pretty slick.

To play arbitrary MIDI files or ESEQ files from Yamaha floppies, you
would need to encode them into "analog MIDI" format for transmission
over the audio link.  I'm not aware of any Mac tools to do this
conversion, but MID2PianoCD for Windows can (maybe you could run it in
Parallels or other Windows emulation software?):

  http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/

Mark Fontana