Disklavier

Hi.  I have a wireless & wired network in my home.  I use my laptop 
via wireless, and would like to run VanBasco's player to send MIDI 
songs to the piano.  However, I don't want to have to put the Laptop 
in the living room next to the piano to do this.

Or, I'd like to be able to control the piano from another (wired) 
computer in the kitchen.

I have a computer in the basement room right under the piano in the 
living room, and could run the Midi Cables from there through the 
wall and up to the piano.  

So, I'd like to be able to route the Midi out from my laptop or 
kitchen desktop over my home network to the computer in the 
basement, then to its MIDI card and up to the piano.

Alternatively, this could be done via wireless MIDI, but I've had 
trouble finding anything on this, except for some standards that are 
in development -- no real products yet.

I'd really appreciate any advice and practical experience.

Thanks everyone!
- Neil

All these things you propose will probably work.  I recall that QRS makes 
these wireless gizmos that may work with your DKV . Their website is 
www.qrsmusic.com

You know, about 99 MIDI files will fit on a floppy disk (or a single memory 
disk) and you could just use your remote. A full floppy disk could play 
music longer than I could probably stay awake after just hitting Play!

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...


>From: "ec_future" <neil.goldman@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Wireless MIDI and/or MIDI over IP
>Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:16:49 -0000
>
>Hi.  I have a wireless & wired network in my home.  I use my laptop
>via wireless, and would like to run VanBasco's player to send MIDI
>songs to the piano.  However, I don't want to have to put the Laptop
>in the living room next to the piano to do this.
>
>Or, I'd like to be able to control the piano from another (wired)
>computer in the kitchen.
>
>I have a computer in the basement room right under the piano in the
>living room, and could run the Midi Cables from there through the
>wall and up to the piano.
>
>So, I'd like to be able to route the Midi out from my laptop or
>kitchen desktop over my home network to the computer in the
>basement, then to its MIDI card and up to the piano.
>
>Alternatively, this could be done via wireless MIDI, but I've had
>trouble finding anything on this, except for some standards that are
>in development -- no real products yet.
>
>I'd really appreciate any advice and practical experience.
>
>Thanks everyone!
>- Neil
>

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Hi,

Have the same situation here.  May I suggest a cheap and small 
laptop (I use a tiny old Sony Vaio which is a PIII-500) with a 
wireless PCMCIA card and an external USB MIDI by the piano.  

I use Media Player 9 to play midi files from the server to the 
piano, and of course with a pair of (good) active loudspeakers 
connected to the portable we can also play music (we copied all our 
CDs to WMA files on the same server).

My next plan is to glue a hook arrangement to the back of the screen 
of the portable (the "top" when closed), so that I can hook it over 
the front of the (upright) piano, rather like the way a traditional 
music rack hangs.  Then it will close up against the piano, and just 
flick open to rest slightly above the keyboard, which would be nice 
(instead of on top of the piano).  And the wires (power and midi) 
can be fed out the back of the piano and hidden.

And of course this laptop is good for recording live performance -- 
then I normally use my main PC for editing and corrections.

When you think that a perfectly capable notebook for playback would 
be no more than a couple of hundred bucks, plus a wireless card, it 
probably wouldn't be worth the price of wireless MIDI?  And 
remember, with wireless MIDI you won't be able to change songs or 
even stop the tune from the room the piano's in!

....and I've just thought, reading your bit where you want to 
control the piano from another room, you could do this either with 
XP remote control or (if you're not running XP on both) something 
similar like Timbuktu or Carbon Copy?

Technology overkill... I love it... :-)


Charles