Disklavier

This is where I stand now:

I've downloaded so many pieces, I do not know where to start but that
is a good thing (and I found my favourite, Rhapsody in blue by
Gershwin)! I have a good hifi, but it just does not compare to piano
music coming straight from the instrument.

The piano needs a good tune up, which will be done this week. And I
need to find out how to do the channel programming as Jorge describes,
as for the moment I have to edit the files and send all the piano
channels to channel 1. Not really a big deal, it is easily done on
Gnmidi (although I cannot find the pianodisc fonction ?!?)

My question of the day is what the midi out is for on the piano ? Does
it mean that GNMIDI sends all the channels info to the DKV, and
whatever is not needed comes back through the midi out to be played by
a sound card ?

Basically, I now want to have all the other instruments on a midi file
to be used by a soundcard and sent to the hifi.

I'm going to explore the cakewalk software.

Pascal


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "JORGE FERNANDEZ" <jorgefedez@...>
wrote:
>
> Well done pascal!
> Carol page is the place to start and to come back from time to time.
> 
> Just note that for just 5 dollars more you can download Cakewalk "Music
> Creator 4"
> 
>
http://store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CWMC4.00-20E
> 
> No demo version is available for this version, but you can try the
demo of
> the bigger (and more costly) brother software.
> 
> http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/kb20061101.asp
> 
> 
> 
> I have both (GNMIDI and CWMC). My personal opinion is that cakewalk is a
> professional software package; it has a much better user interface
and can
> do some complex tasks.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, even that GNMIDI is no so well finished, it has some
> unique features, specific for DKVs, not found anywhere else, and
it's user
> interface is so simple that, for beginners, is very easy to learn and
> understand.
> 
> Let us know your advances.
> 
> 2008/1/18, ramseymonoi <ramseymonoi@...>:
> 
> >   Thank you.
> >
> > After asking the question, I found Carol's website where I should have
> > started really (doh!) !
> >
> > Since then, I have downloaded GNMIDI player, and after testing it, I
> > found that it does everything I want at this stage, for $30.
> >
> > I have been having a lot of fun listening to all those new tracks !
> >
> > Pascal
> >
> > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com <disklavier%40yahoogroups.com>,
"George
> > F. Litterst"
> > <PianoBench@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Good morning, everyone.
> > >
> > > On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:37 AM, ramseymonoi wrote:
> > > > Except for tracks where left and right hands are on different
channels
> > > > obviously, as the disklavier only uses channel 1 it seems.
> > >
> > > I believe that all Disklaviers let you set a MIDI Receive
channel for
> > > the piano. You should at least be able to choose any single channel
> > > between 1 and 16.
> > >
> > > Starting with the Mark II, the chooses were expanded to include:
> > >
> > > 1 + 2
> > > --Good for files that have left and right hands separated in the way
> > > that Yamaha specifies.
> > >
> > > HP
> > > --Good for files that were authored for the Disklavier by Yamaha and
> > > typically published as E-SEQ. In this case, the on/off pedaling
is on
> > > channel 1 along with the notes and the incremental pedaling is on
> > > channle 3.
> > >
> > > PRG
> > > --In this case, the Disklavier will figure out which channels
contain
> > > a so-called piano group voice and will respond to the data that
comes
> > > in on the lowest channel that contains a piano group voice.
> > >
> > > PRG(ALL)
> > > --In this case, the Disklavier will figure out which channels
contain
> > > a so-called piano group voice and will respond to the data that
comes
> > > in on all of those channels.
> > >
> > > If you have a Mark IIXG or later Disklavier, PRG(ALL) will give the
> > > results that you want 95% of the time without requiring you to edit
> > > the files further.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > PianoBench
> > >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Saludos
> Jorge Fernández
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