Disklavier

Ray,

Thanks again.  I'll try it tonight.  I was talking about using my soundcard when I mentioned OMB's sounds...but, in retrospect, that makes no sense at all...of course it's all MIDI.  Thanks for the pointer to their yahoo group as well!

-Kevin



----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman <rayharman@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:40:34 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?


OMB doesn't have any voices.  A software synth 
will give you latency problems.  Preferably you need hardware 
sounds.
 
You can use a soundcard, keyboard or external 
module for your sounds.  I recommend GM or XG compatible 
equipment.
 
I also have a Yamaha SW1000XG soundcard in my 
desktop which works very well with OMB.
 
Perhaps one of the external Audigy soundcards will 
do the job.  You can download the demo of OMB and try it out.  There 
is also some good getting started info on the website.
 
There's also a program called MAAS, but I didn't 
find it as good as OMB and I switched over about 6 years ago.
 
I believe you can re-assign channels with 
OMB.  There is an edit page for that sort of thing but I've never had to do 
it.  
 
Ray
 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kevin Goroway 
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic  accomp software?

Okay...that helps.  I was wondering whether or not to let OMB use  the disklavier's voices or to have it use it's own (or a software synth, but I  don't think the hardware that I had lying around could support a software  synth).  Do you know if it supports re-assigning channels?  I'm  worried that it will use channel 1 for accompaniment, and that will end up  pushing down the keys under my fingers...



-----  Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman  <rayharman@btinterne t.com>
To:  disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:48:06  AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?


Yes.  I've been using it for a number of  years.  It's a very popular program.  I have a Yamaha PSR 540 and  this is connected by midi to my laptop with OMB.  This extends the  functionality of the PSR.  My styles are all on my hard drive and I  don't have to keep loading them in on the PSR's floppy.   I get to  choose either the PSR's accompaniment or the one provided by OMB.  The  output from OMB goes back to my PSR to use the Yamaha XG voices.
 
Regards
Ray
 
 
-----  Original Message ----- 
From: Kevin Goroway 
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?

Ray, thanks for the pointer.

Are you actually using one man  band?  



-----  Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman <rayharman@btinterne  t.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro  ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:11:32 AM
Subject: Re:  [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?


One Man Band will do the job for you.    http://www.1manband .nl/omb.htm
 
Reads yamaha style files and plays in real  time.  Turns any keyboard with midi into an arranger  keyboard.
 
Ray
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kevin Goroway 
To: disklavier@yahoogro  ups.com 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:46 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?

My  uncle has a clavinova which has the cool ability to automatically  accompany his playing in realtime by understanding the chord and  melody.

So, this weekend I decided to finally build a computer to  attach to my MkIV expressly to try to find software which would do the  same thing.

The computer is working fine, and so is the MIDI  functionality. ..now I just have to figure out what software will actually  do this for me!  I played with band-in-a-box a bit...but it does not  seem to allow for this sort of thing in real time...it wants you to first  enter all of the chords.  Is there other software which can do  this?  Am I asking too much?

If it matters, I built the  computer running windows 98se.

Thanks in  advance!
-Kevin