Brian
Thanks for your time. I bought my disklavier from grey market and it probably came from Japan. Anyway I've been enjoying it for 3 years now. Actually I'm looking for a manual on this model but nobody can help me on this even Yamaha company in Japan and here in the Philippines. I bought my Tone generator separately and it's doing a great job on my disklavier.
Yes my disklavier have a midi out and midi in. The midi out of Disklavier to midi in of tone generator. And midi in of disklavier to midi out of tone generator.
I have tried to connect my laptop to TO HOST of the tone generator, but it won't work or maybe I just missed some procedure. I used a serial cable with usb connection that i connect to the tone generator. By the way, what is a "null modem"?
Allan
>From: "bdpotts"
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [disklavier](laptop)
>Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:30:27 -0000
>
>Allen,
>
>I was doing a little research, but I can't find any details on PPG10R
>and I'm not familiar with it. I found some information on the MU-90,
>but not on the "wagon". Conceptually, you should be able to hook
>things up like you want. You may want read and try some of the
>following things.
>
>It sounds like the way you have it now you can play ESEQ diskettes on
>the wagon with accompaniment on the MU-90, is this correct? If this
>is true than the PPG10R must have a MIDI out port that you have
>connected to the MU-90 MIDI in.
>
>Now to verify the second part. It sounds like you said you already
>have the laptop connected to the MU-90, is this correct? If not, it
>shouldn't be too difficult to do, although you won't be able to do it
>through USB (no WIN 95 support). If your laptop has a regular serial
>port (it probably does) you should be able to get a cable to connect
>the laptop to the "Computer/MIDI interface" on the MU-90. This
>connection should be a standard RS232C or RS-422 serial interface on
>the MU-90. This cable should be pretty easy to find once you figure
>out what connections you need on either end. One word of advice on
>this cable. If you try it and it doesn't work, you may need a small
>cable called a "null modem" that switches the send/receive wires. If
>you have the manuals you should be able to find the "pin out" for the
>serial port on the MU-90 and you can match it up with a standard
>serial "pin out" from the laptop.
>
>Finally, does the PPG10R have a MIDI in? I know it only plays ESEQ
>from diskette, but if it has a MIDI out, it probably has a MIDI
>input. If it does you can run a cable from the MU-90 MIDI pass thru
>port to the PPG10R MIDI input.
>
>If you followed this far there's only a couple things left to do.
>
>1. Configure your software to send the MIDI stream through the serial
>port. This shouldn't be too difficult. It probably involves telling
>the software you have an external MIDI device connected to the serial
>port. If you need to, you can contact tech support for the software
>to configure this.
>
>2. Make sure the "Grand Piano" MIDI parts are not played by your MU-
>90 but instead are "passed thru" to the PPG10R. I'm not sure how to
>do this, but if you get this far I bet someone else here will be able
>to help.
>
>Good Luck
>
>Brian
>