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Widi-mac-rondo

2008-04-16 by joel@janicejoel.com

Hi, all. It\u2019s me again with a widi/mac question. I\u2019ve now got midi files from the internet transmitting wirelessly to the disklavier and it\u2019s really incredible. The only problem is that the playing cuts off after three minutes. Exactly three minutes. The green lights tell me the connection is still good and when I press play in the midi player (Rondo) it starts right up again, only to stop exactly three minutes later. This happens regardless of the original midi file source. Any suggestions? ;Could my problem be that I\u2019m still running the DEMO VERSION OF RONDO since I didn\u2019t want to buy the full program till I knew everything worked?

Thanks for your help, Joel

Re: [disklavier] Widi-mac-rondo

2008-04-17 by Spencer_Lists

Greetings Joel,

It is possible. Can't you play MIDI files from Garage Band as a test? If you get stuck and need something tested, I do have an OS X Mac here right on the piano and have WIDI so I can test things.

When I first set up the WIDI on a PC, I had a problem almost like yours. I don't think I got even 3 minutes and it would quit. I forget if the green light was still on but I think it was. I changed the channel from a low number, probably 1, to 64 and never had the problem again. I think there might have been some strange interference problem but why it made the files play for a short fixed period is still a mystery. 

Somewhere I have a link for another MIDI playlist player for the Mac that is good. I used QMIDI for a while but found something better. Forget what it was but is was only $30 or so and even the demo version played full songs. I try to figure out what it was if you are interested. I would like to put it on the Mac but I have too many things to do for now.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 4:57:13 PM, you wrote:
> Hi, all.  It’s me again with a widi/mac question.  I’ve now got
> midi files from the internet transmitting wirelessly to the
> disklavier and it’s really incredible.  The only problem is that the
> playing cuts off after three minutes.  Exactly three minutes.  The
> green lights tell me the connection is still good and when I press
> play in the midi player (Rondo) it starts right up again, only to
> stop exactly three minutes later.  This happens regardless of the
> original midi file source.  Any suggestions?  Could my problem be
> that I’m still running the DEMO VERSION OF RONDO since I didn’t want
> to buy the full program till I knew everything worked?

> Thanks for your help, Joel 
>  

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Re: Widi-mac-rondo

2008-04-18 by joel@janicejoel.com

Thanks for everyone\u2019s help. I went through the possibilities mentioned and everything checked out. Then I heard back from the makers of the midi player, Rondo: the demo version did indeed impose three-minute timeouts. I paid the very reasonable price for the full player, and now everything works perfectly!

Thanks again,
Joel

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