Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

Mike, you can fix the problem by making changes on the Disklavier or  
computer or both.

On the Disklavier, access the MIDI In page in the Interface program by  
doing the following, starting at the first screen:

--Tap Next
--Tap Setup
--Tap MIDI

On the MIDI In screen, do one of the following:

Option 1
--Set the MIDI Receive Channel for the Disklavier to any channel from  
1 to 16. I recommend that you use Channel 1.
--In your computer software, set the piano track(s) to the same  
channel used by the piano. Be sure that all of the other tracks are  
set to different channels.

Option 2
--Set the MIDI Receive Channel for the Disklavier to PRG(ALL). This  
will ensure that the Disklavier plays all tracks that have a patch  
message that sets the track to a General MIDI "piano group" voice.  
Piano Group voices are the first 8 voices in General MIDI:

1. Acoustic Grand Piano
2. Bright Acoustic Piano
3. Electric Grand Piano
4. Honky-Tonk Piano
5. Electric Piano 1
6. Electric Piano 2
7. Harpsichord
8. Clavi

--You do not need to make any changes in your computer software.

Unless your sequence has any of the voices listed above and you DON'T  
want them to play on the piano, the PRG(ALL) setting is a simple  
choice that works most of the time.

Regards,
PianoBench

On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:06 PM, mcubed33 wrote:

> I am a very new member of this group--we have only owned our DKV
> MarkIV for a couple of weeks. Thanks to Carol Beigel's website (well
> worth a visit, by the way), I have now found an excellent source of
> MIDI files of classical music. For example, I found a file there of
> Beethoven's Emperor's concerto. However, when I played one of those
> files on our DKV, we only received music through the speakers, not
> from the keyboard. Thus, we need to find a way to redirect the piano
> track data in that MIDI file to our DKV's keyboard in order to get
> the real benefit of the music. From Carol's notes we may also want
> to adjust the volume settings on some of the MIDI files that we
> download.
>
> To do that we will need to use some sort of MIDI utility. There
> appear to be plenty of them available for PCs. I have not yet found
> such a utility that runs on Macs, even after spending some time today
> in the Apple forums. Does anyone have a recommendation for a simple
> MIDI utility (i.e., capable of adjusting volume and redirecting track
> data to our DKV keyboard) that runs on a Mac?
>
> Any recommendations much appreciated.
>
> Mike M.
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