On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:35 PM, mjburby wrote:
18 Peer to peer bi-directional network connection over the internet to enable remote teaching, performance, or purely for fun. Disklavier has audio capturing so voice over IP should be no problem. i know that others are experimenting with this in their own way, but this should be standard functionality.
There is a feature under development for the Mark IV called Remote Lesson that has been used many times during the last couple of years. I have personally used it successfully to teach long distance lessons as well as to broadcast a concert performance to a remote location.
At the moment, Remote Lesson requires a Mark IV at both ends of the connection. I don't know when it will be released officially by Yamaha Corporation of Japan or what form it might take when it is released.
My software company offers a program called Internet MIDI (http://www.timewarptech.com/Pages/Products/InternetMIDI/InternetMIDI.html) that will connect any two Disklaviers together over the Internet. It will also connect a Disklavier to another MIDI keyboard, such as a Clavinova, Modus, or AvantGrand.
Regards,
PianoBench
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