Disklavier

Greetings Everyone,

I've gained invaluable knowledge from this forum over the past year as
I have grown in understanding my MX-80 and am thankful for it. I am
hoping someone has addressed a curiosity that I have about multiple
midi device through-put. 

Though I'm not a musician, my ear has become very critical and there
are many arrangements that use electric piano and harpsichord that
lose the respective instrument's contribution in arrangements
w/multiple piano tracks. Though many pieces sound fine translated to
the upright, some arrangements, especially jazz, are so "unnatural"
(pun intentional) sounding without the elect piano voice. My MX-80 has
its original controller and I have added the Yamaha DSR1 for XG
ensemble voices. I think it is wonderful how the DSR1 gleans the piano
parts from the sequence, without regard to their track position, but I
wish I knew how to direct the piano part(s) away from the DKV that I
prefer to remain non-acoustic.

Any direction as to how (or if) this can be accomplished would be
appreciated. Maybe it is a midi command within the sequence; a menu
setup item on the DSR1 or requires another tone module directed from
the PC. 

Many thanks,
Fred

Hi Fred, I hope everything is fine at home.

I am not familiar with the DSR1, but I assume it is similar to the 
controller in my Upright.
I am also confident that some one else will help us with the 
detailed instructions, anyway as a fast answer:

If you have your DSR1 manual better, look for the set up of 
the "piano part",
I don't have my manual ready available now, so from memory

It can be configured as channel 1&2, channel 1 (or any other), none, 
or "program")

It seems that yours is configured "program", this means that 
any "piano like" program will be sent to the DKV, so change it to a 
single MIDI channel. (I prefer channel 1)

After that, only events for MIDI channel 1 will be sent to the DKV, 
all other channels will play from the sound module, so you will have 
all the "other" electronics pianos available in any MIDI channel 
different from 1.


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Dismuke" <freddismuke@...> 
wrote:
>
> Greetings Everyone,
> 
> I've gained invaluable knowledge from this forum over the past 
year as
> I have grown in understanding my MX-80 and am thankful for it. I am
> hoping someone has addressed a curiosity that I have about multiple
> midi device through-put. 
> 
> Though I'm not a musician, my ear has become very critical and 
there
> are many arrangements that use electric piano and harpsichord that
> lose the respective instrument's contribution in arrangements
> w/multiple piano tracks. Though many pieces sound fine translated 
to
> the upright, some arrangements, especially jazz, are so "unnatural"
> (pun intentional) sounding without the elect piano voice. My MX-80 
has
> its original controller and I have added the Yamaha DSR1 for XG
> ensemble voices. I think it is wonderful how the DSR1 gleans the 
piano
> parts from the sequence, without regard to their track position, 
but I
> wish I knew how to direct the piano part(s) away from the DKV that 
I
> prefer to remain non-acoustic.
> 
> Any direction as to how (or if) this can be accomplished would be
> appreciated. Maybe it is a midi command within the sequence; a menu
> setup item on the DSR1 or requires another tone module directed 
from

> the PC. 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Fred
>

Greetings Fred,

I wrote a program, some time ago called midimod2. It does various
modifications to MIDI files. Some of these functions were designed to
address certain issues with playing on the DKV. I do not own a DKV
(just a Pianodisc) so I had to rely on feedback from DKV owners to
know if the functions work correctly. There is on function that moves
parts depending on the patch assigned to them. You select a cut off
point on a slider in the program window and any notes that have a
patch less than the cutoff number are moved to channel 1 if not
already there and any that have a higher patch are moved to channel 3.
This was supposed to do exactly what you want but it requires that
your DKV send the channel 1 and 2 data to the piano and the higher
channels to the synth. As far as I know, this was the case when I
wrote the program as the feature was added for someone who wanted to
do just what you want. There are many other features of the program
and there is a help button which brings up a file that explains most
of the workings. You are welcome to ask for help with the program if
it does not seem to do what you want or if it needs to be modified in
some way. I just recently looked the code over because I used the
program as a basis to make a new one so I happen to be a little
familiar with its workings right now and might actually understand it
well enough to modify. There is one condition to using the program. I
require feedback. I can not make these programs work correctly if I
don't hear from users whether they work or not. You can find the
program on this page of my web site.

http://www.spencerserolls.com/Files4Download.html


Thursday, May 18, 2006, 7:41:49 AM, you wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,

> I've gained invaluable knowledge from this forum over the past year as
> I have grown in understanding my MX-80 and am thankful for it. I am
> hoping someone has addressed a curiosity that I have about multiple
> midi device through-put. 

> Though I'm not a musician, my ear has become very critical and there
> are many arrangements that use electric piano and harpsichord that
> lose the respective instrument's contribution in arrangements
> w/multiple piano tracks. Though many pieces sound fine translated to
> the upright, some arrangements, especially jazz, are so "unnatural"
> (pun intentional) sounding without the elect piano voice. My MX-80 has
> its original controller and I have added the Yamaha DSR1 for XG
> ensemble voices. I think it is wonderful how the DSR1 gleans the piano
> parts from the sequence, without regard to their track position, but I
> wish I knew how to direct the piano part(s) away from the DKV that I
> prefer to remain non-acoustic.

> Any direction as to how (or if) this can be accomplished would be
> appreciated. Maybe it is a midi command within the sequence; a menu
> setup item on the DSR1 or requires another tone module directed from
> the PC. 

> Many thanks,
> Fred








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