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Surprise! Surprise!

2006-04-19 by Terry Smythe

Got a surprise phone call today from an owner of a Disklavier 
upright piano, which over the phone he started up playing my 
Wurlitzer 125 band organ midi files.    Quite astonishing to 
hear this over the phone.    

He has a little Yamaha TG100 synth tone generator sitting on top 
of his piano, with a pair of small hi-end speakers also on top 
at each end, and a bass reverb type speaker on the floor behind. 
It is hooked to the Disklavier with a midi-in/out cable.  

He had downloaded my batch 22, within which is a pair of zip 
files - W125_Known and W125_Unknown.    Not knowing the 
significance of individual zip files, everything was dumped into 
a single directory.   He loaded floppies with ~40 files each.

He had his TG100 turned on while playing my files, and somewhere 
in the middle, it sprang to life when one of my W125 files 
entered the queue and "played" all the non-piano voices in 
synch with the piano, which somehow is able to sort out 
the melody alone.   

See also a news item from 1992 about this newly introduced 
device:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Oct_19/ai
_12711482

Amazing!    Just never know what will emerge through the magic 
and power of the internet.    Anybody else discover this?

Regards,

Terry

Terry Smythe                           204-832-3982 (land line)
55 Rowand Avenue                   204-981-3229 (cell)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada   R3J 2N6           smythe@...
Preserving a unique slice of our Musical Heritage
http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm

Re: Surprise! Surprise!

2006-04-19 by Jorge Fernandez

Great!
Thanks Terry for the note.
Just couldn't wait more to listen so I tried them here at my office.
(During lunch time, of course).

They work nice, but I figure my own setup to make them a little more 
realistic.
(Just a mater of persona taste)
If you have cakewalk, here is a CAL macro to automate my setup.
You can adapt it to your own feelings.
(Note I use channel 0ne for the DKV piano part)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
(do
	(TrackChannel 1 0)
	(TrackChannel 2 1)
	(TrackChannel 3 2)
	(TrackChannel 4 3)
	(TrackChannel 10 4)
	(TrackChannel 5 5)
	(TrackPatch 58 0)
	(TrackPatch 72 1)
	(TrackPatch 73 2)
	(TrackPatch 72 3)
	(TrackPatch 57 4)
	(TrackVolume 110 0)
	(TrackVolume 100 1)
	(TrackVolume 120 2)
	(TrackVolume 100 3)
	(TrackVolume 90 4)
	(TrackPan 16 0)
	(TrackPan 32 1)	
	(TrackPan 64 2)
	(TrackPan 96 3)
	(TrackPan 112 4)

	; optional for XG --:
	(TrackPatch 26 4)
	(TrackBank 16256 4)
	;------------------
)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Terry Smythe <smythe@...> wrote:

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>
> Got a surprise phone call today from an owner of a Disklavier 
> upright piano, which over the phone he started up playing my 
> Wurlitzer 125 band organ midi files.    Quite astonishing to 
> hear this over the phone.    
> 
> He has a little Yamaha TG100 synth tone generator sitting on top 
> of his piano, with a pair of small hi-end speakers also on top 
> at each end, and a bass reverb type speaker on the floor behind. 
> It is hooked to the Disklavier with a midi-in/out cable.  
> 
> He had downloaded my batch 22, within which is a pair of zip 
> files - W125_Known and W125_Unknown.    Not knowing the 
> significance of individual zip files, everything was dumped into 
> a single directory.   He loaded floppies with ~40 files each.
> 
> He had his TG100 turned on while playing my files, and somewhere 
> in the middle, it sprang to life when one of my W125 files 
> entered the queue and "played" all the non-piano voices in 
> synch with the piano, which somehow is able to sort out 
> the melody alone.   
> 
> See also a news item from 1992 about this newly introduced 
> device:
> 
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Oct_19/ai
> _12711482
> 
> Amazing!    Just never know what will emerge through the magic 
> and power of the internet.    Anybody else discover this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Terry
> 
> Terry Smythe                           204-832-3982 (land line)
> 55 Rowand Avenue                   204-981-3229 (cell)
> Winnipeg, MB, Canada   R3J 2N6           smythe@...
> Preserving a unique slice of our Musical Heritage
> http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm
>

Re: Surprise! Surprise!

2006-04-19 by Jorge Fernandez

Sorry, there wre some typos y the macro, this one works better.
-----------------------------------------------
(do
	(TrackChannel 1 0)
	(TrackChannel 2 1)
	(TrackChannel 3 2)
	(TrackChannel 4 3)
	(TrackChannel 9 4)
	(TrackChannel 5 5)
	(TrackPatch 58 0)
	(TrackPatch 73 1)
	(TrackPatch 72 2)
	(TrackPatch 56 3)
	(TrackPatch 57 4)
	(TrackVolume 110 0)
	(TrackVolume 100 1)
	(TrackVolume 120 2)
	(TrackVolume 100 3)
	(TrackVolume 90 4)
	(TrackPan 16 0)
	(TrackPan 32 1)	
	(TrackPan 64 2)
	(TrackPan 96 3)
	(TrackPan 112 4)

	; optional for XG --:
	(TrackPatch 25 4)
	(TrackBank 16256 4)
	;------------------
)
-----------------------------------------------
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Jorge Fernandez" 
<jorgefedez@...> wrote:
>
> Great!
> Thanks Terry for the note.
> Just couldn't wait more to listen so I tried them here at my 
office.
> (During lunch time, of course).
> 
> They work nice, but I figure my own setup to make them a little 
more

Show quoted textHide quoted text

> realistic.
> (Just a mater of persona taste)
> If you have cakewalk, here is a CAL macro to automate my setup.
> You can adapt it to your own feelings.
> (Note I use channel 0ne for the DKV piano part)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> (do
> 	(TrackChannel 1 0)
> 	(TrackChannel 2 1)
> 	(TrackChannel 3 2)
> 	(TrackChannel 4 3)
> 	(TrackChannel 10 4)
> 	(TrackChannel 5 5)
> 	(TrackPatch 58 0)
> 	(TrackPatch 72 1)
> 	(TrackPatch 73 2)
> 	(TrackPatch 72 3)
> 	(TrackPatch 57 4)
> 	(TrackVolume 110 0)
> 	(TrackVolume 100 1)
> 	(TrackVolume 120 2)
> 	(TrackVolume 100 3)
> 	(TrackVolume 90 4)
> 	(TrackPan 16 0)
> 	(TrackPan 32 1)	
> 	(TrackPan 64 2)
> 	(TrackPan 96 3)
> 	(TrackPan 112 4)
> 
> 	; optional for XG --:
> 	(TrackPatch 26 4)
> 	(TrackBank 16256 4)
> 	;------------------
> )
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Terry Smythe <smythe@> wrote:
> >
> > Got a surprise phone call today from an owner of a Disklavier 
> > upright piano, which over the phone he started up playing my 
> > Wurlitzer 125 band organ midi files.    Quite astonishing to 
> > hear this over the phone.    
> > 
> > He has a little Yamaha TG100 synth tone generator sitting on top 
> > of his piano, with a pair of small hi-end speakers also on top 
> > at each end, and a bass reverb type speaker on the floor behind. 
> > It is hooked to the Disklavier with a midi-in/out cable.  
> > 
> > He had downloaded my batch 22, within which is a pair of zip 
> > files - W125_Known and W125_Unknown.    Not knowing the 
> > significance of individual zip files, everything was dumped into 
> > a single directory.   He loaded floppies with ~40 files each.
> > 
> > He had his TG100 turned on while playing my files, and somewhere 
> > in the middle, it sprang to life when one of my W125 files 
> > entered the queue and "played" all the non-piano voices in 
> > synch with the piano, which somehow is able to sort out 
> > the melody alone.   
> > 
> > See also a news item from 1992 about this newly introduced 
> > device:
> > 
> > http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Oct_19/ai
> > _12711482
> > 
> > Amazing!    Just never know what will emerge through the magic 
> > and power of the internet.    Anybody else discover this?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Terry
> > 
> > Terry Smythe                           204-832-3982 (land line)
> > 55 Rowand Avenue                   204-981-3229 (cell)
> > Winnipeg, MB, Canada   R3J 2N6           smythe@
> > Preserving a unique slice of our Musical Heritage
> > http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm
> >
>

Re: [disklavier] Re: Surprise! Surprise!

2006-04-26 by ISKI1@aol.com

I finally got around to trying these files on my disklavier and I flute and  
drum with no Piano.
Which files where you playing when this happened?
 
Thanks