Disklavier

I can also validate your problem with my new DKC850 control unit.  I used to play CD Audio files from my iPod into my old control unit (that I converted from my Pianosoft Plus Audio CDs).  Always worked perfectly.  The DKC850 has an analog midi input, but when I connect my iPod to it, the audio plays perfectly, but NO piano part anymore.  I'm using the highest bit rate, wave files, etc.  Again, this worked perfectly with my old control unit.  Tried setting a few options in MIDI/Audio area, but no luck.  There are so many options on this unit for dealing withing MIDI/FIL types of files (USB, Internal Memory, Network, etc.).  Really gives you lots of options.   Besides feeding one CD at a time into the player :(, I hope they can figure out a way to add a little more flexibilty in a later firmware.  What would really be perfect if you could store your audio files on a USB drive and/or have the control unit access your network where you could store them.   

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Garth <whitestarline123@...> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone, Thanks again for all your invaluable assistance. I will now go away and try evrything mentioned. I will let you all know soon how it all has gone. Apart from this problem I am one happy dkv owner now. This unit has opened alot of doors for my instrument. It costed me 1,200 aussie dollars delivered from Japan brand new. I changed the box into english and everything has been great.
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> ________________________________
> From: Spencer_Lists <lists@...>
> To: Wayne Garth <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, 11 June, 2010 1:51:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] DKC850 upgrade unit
> 
>   
> Greetings Wayne,
> 
> another thing to check is that you have the volume all the way up.
> itunes has a setting somewhere to not let you accidentally change the
> volume slider.
> 
> better yet is to dump itunes and use a good program. Media Monkey is
> superior in all ways.
> 
> if you want to use an airport express to connect to the piano
> wirelessly you can use a shareare program called "airfoil" to connect
> any player such as media monkey to the airport. MM plays the airport
> better than Apples own crappy program.
> 
> an even better solution is to use a dedicated little computer at the
> piano and to use Team Viewer to do a remote desktop setup. TV is much
> better than Windows remote desktop or remote assistance and also works
> with Mac and Ipods and phones Media monkey also has an Iphone app
> 
> i have a summary article on using media monkey to play the LX piano on
> my blog. http://spencersviews.blogspot.com/ i first set this up to
> play a friend's DKV and it works beautifully. we even got Media Monkey
> to catalog his entire MIDI collection and added meta data with some
> utilities that i wrote for that purpose. he is a very happy DKV owner
> now. he plays audio MIDI and original midi on his DKV and very good
> audio on his stereo. we got this all together for a few hundred
> dollars and he is very fussy because he has an excellent stereo
> (mostly Mark Levinson)
> 
> Thursday, June 10, 2010, 6:26:13 PM, you wrote: > 
> > Hi Everyone, Thank you for your prompt replys. I have taken a cd
> > from the shelf and matched the purchased midi files to it using the
> > midi2pianocd software. When i burnt the cd using the software it
> > played beautifully through the units cd drive. the problem i have is
> > when the files are put into i tunes the piano plays the audio
> > perfect but the piano does not play along as it would when the cd is
> > directly placed into the units cd drive.
> 
> > I have a set of audio cables running from the laptops headphone
> > jack to the analogue midi in jacks. I have not done anything else to
> > the files. Maybe it is operator related! I might not have the
> > correct settings set up in i tunes or the piano might not be set up right to accept the files.
> 
> > I thank you all in advance.
> 
> > wayne
> 
> > From: George F. Litterst <PianoBench@...>
> > To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Fri, 11 June, 2010 5:30:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: [disklavier] DKC850 upgrade unit
> 
> > 
> 
> > Good afternoon, everyone.
> 
> > Wayne, have you done anything to audio? Has it become compressed?
> > Or are you sending the audio straight from the CD to the piano over
> > analogue MIDI? I would try the latter and see if that works.
> 
> > Regards,
> > PianoBench
> 
> > www.georgelitterst. com
> > www.timewarptech. com
> 
> > On Jun 10, 2010, at 2:07 PM, whitestarline123 wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Everybody, I have just recently purchased the dkc 850 upgrade. I
> > am happy to report that this unit is everything that I had been
> > expecting and more!! I have one problem with it. I cannot seem to get it to play
> > files through the analogue midi inputs. I am using a laptop with
> > Vista. It will play the audio perfectly but the piano will not play along.
> > It is probably the operator!
> > I am wanting to purchase the squeezebox Duet system so that I can
> > control all of my media from the handheld unit. I am hoping there is
> > a way to play the disklavier files using this method. Any help would be appreciated.
> > In all other aspects I am very happy with the unit and highly
> > reccomend it. The supplied manual does not explain the use for the analogue midi inputs properly.
> 
> > Thanks in advance
> 
> > Wayne
> 
> > 
> > 
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