Disklavier

Hi All
Ive just recently bought a 2nd hand disklavier with a "Yamaha piano player control unit ppc 5r "
Would I be able to connect a line 6 midi mobilizer and my I phone to play midi files to the disklavier ?
Many thanks for any help.
Ming

Good evening, everyone.

Ming, the Disklavier with the PPC5R control unit was not sold in the US, and for that reason, I am unfamiliar with its features. But, I can provide some general guidelines:

(1) The Disklavier has a split personality: It is both a piano and (in most cases) a tone generator. When you send MIDI data to the piano, you need to be sure that the piano track(s) is/are set to the same MIDI Receive channel as the Disklavier. The remaining tracks will be played by the tone generator, if any.

By default, the Disklavier is set to receive MIDI data for the piano on MIDI channel 1.

(2) If you are playing MIDI files that were recorded on the Disklavier as Standard MIDI Files (SMF), things will generally work out well. If the piano tracks were recorded on a portable keyboard or light action digital piano, they will typically sound too loud on the Disklavier. Carol Beigel’s website has some 3rd party tools for correcting poorly created MIDI files: http://www.carolrpt.com

(3) Depending upon the features of your instrument, you may have to flip a switch or make a setting on the control unit’s screen to determine whether the instrument responds to incoming MIDI data on the MIDI In port, the serial port (if any), or the USB port (if any).

(4) Since you mentioned the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, I am assuming that you want to play files from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. I recommend that you look into the Sweet MIDI Player app. Assuming that your files are in the form of SMF 0 or SMF 1, that program will work well.

(5) If you have the original MIDI Mobilizer, your actual choices of MIDI software may be quite limited. That was an unusual interface that was created before Apple added “Core MIDI” to the iOS, and it communicates with the iOS device in a non-standard way. On the other hand, if you have the MIDI Mobilizer II, you have a Core MIDI-compliant interface that will work with any MIDI program for iOS.

Regards,
PianoBench 

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Pak Ming Keung photos_for_friends@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hi All
> 
> Ive just recently bought a 2nd hand disklavier with a "Yamaha piano player control unit ppc 5r "
> 
> Would I be able to connect a line 6 midi mobilizer and my I phone to play midi files to the disklavier ?
> 
> Many thanks for any help.
> 
> Ming
> 
>

Thanks George for your quick reply
Ill be getting the Disklavier Monday morning and hopefully the midi mobilizer II later on the week.
I've been very lucky with the midi mobilizer, as my local music store told me unfortunately that line 6 has stopped there production of this productand have sold all their stock to a german company thomann. And when I contacted Thomann, they have the item at a clearance price of £7.
But I will try connecting them as soon as they arrive.
Cheers Ming


     On Saturday, 7 March 2015, 2:01, "George Frederick Litterst PianoBench@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



     Good evening, everyone.

Ming, the Disklavier with the PPC5R control unit was not sold in the US, and for that reason, I am unfamiliar with its features. But, I can provide some general guidelines:
(1) The Disklavier has a split personality: It is both a piano and (in most cases) a tone generator. When you send MIDI data to the piano, you need to be sure that the piano track(s) is/are set to the same MIDI Receive channel as the Disklavier. The remaining tracks will be played by the tone generator, if any.
By default, the Disklavier is set to receive MIDI data for the piano on MIDI channel 1.
(2) If you are playing MIDI files that were recorded on the Disklavier as Standard MIDI Files (SMF), things will generally work out well. If the piano tracks were recorded on a portable keyboard or light action digital piano, they will typically sound too loud on the Disklavier. Carol Beigel’s website has some 3rd party tools for correcting poorly created MIDI files: http://www.carolrpt.com
(3) Depending upon the features of your instrument, you may have to flip a switch or make a setting on the control unit’s screen to determine whether the instrument responds to incoming MIDI data on the MIDI In port, the serial port (if any), or the USB port (if any).
(4) Since you mentioned the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, I am assuming that you want to play files from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. I recommend that you look into the Sweet MIDI Player app. Assuming that your files are in the form of SMF 0 or SMF 1, that program will work well.
(5) If you have the original MIDI Mobilizer, your actual choices of MIDI software may be quite limited. That was an unusual interface that was created before Apple added “Core MIDI” to the iOS, and it communicates with the iOS device in a non-standard way. On the other hand, if you have the MIDI Mobilizer II, you have a Core MIDI-compliant interface that will work with any MIDI program for iOS.

Regards,PianoBench 






On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Pak Ming Keung photos_for_friends@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 Hi All
Ive just recently bought a 2nd hand disklavier with a "Yamaha piano player control unit ppc 5r "
Would I be able to connect a line 6 midi mobilizer and my I phone to play midi files to the disklavier ?
Many thanks for any help.
Ming