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Mike

One thing I forgot to mention - once you make this adjustment for a particular song - every time you load that song to play - the Mark IV will remember the adjustment and you will never have to adjust that particular song again. This fix is not a global adjustment - it is a per song adjustment.

Alan

----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Moore
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:39:21 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] MIDI Utility that works on a Mac?

Alan -

Many thanks for that valuable tip. I will give it a try as soon as my DKV recovers from a mysterious shutdown--hopefully Yamaha customer service can remedy that problem.

Mike

From: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Thu Jun 19 06:09:14 2008
Subject: Re: [disklavier] MIDI Utility that works on a Mac?

Mike

A much easier way to have the piano part play on a Mark IV is to load the song that you want - from the main song screen that is loaded hit 'previous' and at the top of the page that you are at, select piano part channel L "xx" - tap on the 'xx' ('xx' being what ever number is showing up) scroll through the 16 tracks by hitting the east side of the navigational ring on the bottom of the remote (east will increase the number - west will decrease the number) and when you find the midi channel that has the piano part - the song will playback as you want - with the appropriate channel causing the keys to move on the Disklavier. This is only available on a Mark IV - previous versions need to be set as George described below.

Alan

----- Original Message ----
From: George F. Litterst
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:13:14 PM
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 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.

Disklavier

Re: [disklavier] MIDI Utility that works on a Mac?

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