Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

Kevin, you have two choices for sending and receiving MIDI data with  
the Mark IV:

--MIDI In/Out ports
--USB MIDI port

In the case of the MIDI In/Out ports, you have to make a connection to  
the I/O Center using MIDI cables. At the computer end, you have to use  
a MIDI interface (usually connected to the computer with a USB cable).

In the case of the USB MIDI port, all you have to do is use the proper  
USB "device" cable:

http://www.usbwholesale.com/usb2cables.htm

When using the USB MIDI port, you can think of the MIDI interface as  
being built into the piano.

If you use the MIDI ports and MIDI interface, you may or may not need  
to install a driver. It depends upon the interface. If you use the  
direct USB connection, you need to install the Yamaha USB MIDI driver  
(which is the same driver used by other Yamaha keyboards and  
interfaces). You can get it here:

http://www.global.yamaha.com/download/usb_midi/index.html

Regards,
PianoBench


www.georgelitterst.com
www.timewarptech.com


On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Kevin Goroway wrote:

>
> I've recently connected an old computer to my MarkIV via an old  
> soundblaster sound card and the MIDI/Joystick cable.
>
> Turns out that that computer probably won't handle what I'd like to  
> do ultimately, so I'm buying/building a new one.  Do I really need  
> MIDI capability on this new computer, or can I just connect the  
> computer to the disklavier via USB?  I noticed that the Disklavier  
> allows you to tell it that MIDI will be arriving via USB, so I  
> suspect that this is possible.  Will I need to install drivers for  
> this on the computer?  Where can I get those?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -Kevin
>
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