Disklavier

Hi Carol,

I have a Mac, and I use QMidi for Midi playback of MIDI files from the
internet.  You can get it through the apple website at

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/qmidi.html

It's not a full sequencer, but since I'm not really a musician, it
provides everything I need.  The drag-and-drop function works great. I
just drag a folder onto the QMidi icon, and it puts all the midi files
in a new play list and starts playing. If I drag another folder or set
of files onto the playlist, it adds it to the existing playlist, or if
I drag it to the icon or the player icon, it creates another playlist.
I love listening solely to pure piano, and some of the internet files
have other instruments blended in.  Qmidi lets me easliy change the
files to all piano or just cut out the other instruments (such as drum
channels).  While this wouldn't work for an orchestral arrangement, it
works great for some files with just a few instrument. This capability
adds quite a few pleasurable files from the internet that I wouldn't
otherwise enjoy.

I did pay to register it to get rid of the extremely annoying reminder
that pops up frequently (I can't remember how much, but since I'm a
cheapskate at heart, it was likely less than $20).  A word of caution,
when I registered it, the registration went straight to my yahoo junk
mail folder, and I didn't find it for a day or two.

I hope this helps!
Big Ed

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" <thecarolb@...> wrote:
>
> What do people use for playlist software on a Mac running Leopard? 
> (connected via MIDI interface to a Disklavier) to play MIDI files
downloaded 
> from the internet?  I am still very new to these Mac capabilities.
> 
> The PC can use Yamplayer, van Basco, etc.  Although Yamaha's XG
Works 3.0 is 
> no longer available in the U.S. they are selling a different
software called 
> XG Edit that may be somewhat useful even though it is not a full
sequencer 
> program.  You can find it on the internet where you buy the
Pianosoft disks.
> 
> Carol Beigel
>