Disklavier

George -
 
Many thanks!  I'll give Option 2 a try.  Sounds very simple.
 
Regards.
 
Mike

________________________________

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of George F. Litterst
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:13 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] MIDI Utility that works on a Mac?



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 util! ity (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.
	
	

	


=