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Mark III ins and outs

2006-04-10 by ronsensor

My DC5A got delivered Saturday afternoon and I'm having a blast with it.
My wife (despite some complaints of the size of the thing) has come to
love it, she's going to wear out that Carol King Tapestry Smart disk
set   I in anticipation.  She already had the thing fired up playing
the Crendence set even before I got down for breakfast this morning.

I've not had too much time to play with the various ins and outs by
experimentation yet, but I'm off to get some cables that are the
appropriate length (my wife refuses to let me leave the untidy like my
old synth rigs were).  I've got my computer and it's associated ADAT
stuff in a little wheeled rack under the comptuer.

So here are the questions:

1.  Getting the piano to play the MIDI out of the computer was
straight forward.   However I didn't see any midi traffic on the
computer inputs when I played the keys on the piano.  Is there some
not immediately obvious setup I need to do to the piano?

2.  What exactly appears on the AUX output of the amp box.  Is it the
same as the speakers?

3.  What about the AUX input of the amp box.  The big question  here
is does it mix in to the TG audio to the headphone jack on front of
the piano?  It would be much neater to not have to have a seperate
headphone amp.

4.  What about the CD Audio/MIDI ins on the the control unit?

Re: [disklavier] Mark III ins and outs

2006-04-10 by Shana Kirk

Hi Ron,

I think I can answer most of your questions:

On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:34 AM, ronsensor wrote:

So here are the questions:

1. Getting the piano to play the MIDI out of the computer was

straight forward. However I didn't see any midi traffic on the

computer inputs when I played the keys on the piano. Is there some

not immediately obvious setup I need to do to the piano?

Check in the MIDI menu (use the function button, then the arrows to access this). "MIDI OUT" should be set to "keyboard." If it's set to "ensemble," this means whatever is playing from the TG is being sent out of the MIDI jacks.

2. What exactly appears on the AUX output of the amp box. Is it the

same as the speakers?

The AUX out should play the same as whatever the speakers are playing.

3. What about the AUX input of the amp box. The big question here

is does it mix in to the TG audio to the headphone jack on front of

the piano? It would be much neater to not have to have a seperate

headphone amp.

I'm not sure I ever tried this, and I don't have a Mark III anymore. I kind of think the speakers are not directly linked to the headphone jack, but I'm not sure.

4. What about the CD Audio/MIDI ins on the the control unit?

You could use this for an external audio device or for analog MIDI input. (sounds like crazy electric blips).

Hope this helps.

Shana

Re: Mark III ins and outs

2006-04-11 by ronsensor

Thansk Shana,

I did some more experimentaiton while neatening up the cables last night
(my wife didn't like them all snaking on the floor, so I strapped them
in with the Disklavier's own bundles running between the control unit
and the amp).

The default MIDI configuration was putting the keyboard out, my RME
card seems to have a dead midi-1 in.   It worked fine on midi-2 (which
was what my KX88 and KX1 were previously connected to).  It's probably
the break out cable off the back of the card, it dangles down with no
support.  I did switch over to ensample and was able to capture the FD
playing the piano.

The AUX in's do get routed to both the speakers (and if you've got
them plugged in) the headphones.  This is excellent.   Much neater to
just have the headphones plugged into the silent control panel.