Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

Bob, there are a few things to check:

(1) It is very easy to confuse which plugs connect to MIDI In and MIDI  
Out. Try reversing them. (You won't hurt anything if you have  
incorrectly reversed the connection.)

(2) The Disklavier is both a piano and a tone generator. Certain  
incoming MIDI tracks play on the piano, and all others are played by  
the tone generator. If the speakers are note turned on, you will not  
hear the other tracks.

(3) To insure that your Disklavier plays the correct tracks on the  
piano, you need to match the piano's Receive Channel(s) to the MIDI  
channels to which the piano track(s) are assigned in the MIDI file.  
Unfortunately, the piano tracks may be on different channels in  
different files. The simplest way to account for this is to let the  
Disklavier guess (which it can do correctly about 95% of the time) and  
set the piano's Receive Channel to PRG(ALL). I have not used the B  
version of the Mark III. I am guessing that you make this selection in  
the following way:

--Press Function
--Use the Right Arrow button to select MIDI Setup and then press Enter
--With the cursor next to Piano Part, press Enter
--The display will show you the current Piano Receive channel which  
you can change with the +/- buttons.

Regards,
PianoBench

On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Dokhanchi wrote:

> I need help please with my Mark III B version (DGC1-B). I have used  
> VanBascos's software per carol's recommendation and am using the USB- 
> MIDI cable I bought from Ebay. The ToHost selector is set to midi  
> and the cable powers up and recognized by he computer. When I play a  
> song in vanbasco, the blue light on the cable flashes showing the  
> data is going through the USB cable into midi in/out. The problem is  
> I can not get the piano to play it. When I turn the disklavier on,  
> it is still on the internal drives. Doesn't have to be on an  
> external midi selection? I can't find such selection. Any help is  
> appreciated.
>
> Bob
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