----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman <rayharman@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:40:34 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
OMB doesn't have any voices. A software synth
will give you latency problems. Preferably you need hardware
sounds.
You can use a soundcard, keyboard or external
module for your sounds. I recommend GM or XG compatible
equipment.
I also have a Yamaha SW1000XG soundcard in my
desktop which works very well with OMB.
Perhaps one of the external Audigy soundcards will
do the job. You can download the demo of OMB and try it out. There
is also some good getting started info on the website.
There's also a program called MAAS, but I didn't
find it as good as OMB and I switched over about 6 years ago.
I believe you can re-assign channels with
OMB. There is an edit page for that sort of thing but I've never had to do
it.
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Goroway
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
Okay...that helps. I was wondering whether or not to let OMB use the disklavier's voices or to have it use it's own (or a software synth, but I don't think the hardware that I had lying around could support a software synth). Do you know if it supports re-assigning channels? I'm worried that it will use channel 1 for accompaniment, and that will end up pushing down the keys under my fingers...
----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman <rayharman@btinterne t.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:48:06 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
Yes. I've been using it for a number of years. It's a very popular program. I have a Yamaha PSR 540 and this is connected by midi to my laptop with OMB. This extends the functionality of the PSR. My styles are all on my hard drive and I don't have to keep loading them in on the PSR's floppy. I get to choose either the PSR's accompaniment or the one provided by OMB. The output from OMB goes back to my PSR to use the Yamaha XG voices.
Regards
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Goroway
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
Ray, thanks for the pointer.
Are you actually using one man band?
----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Harman <rayharman@btinterne t.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
One Man Band will do the job for you. http://www.1manband .nl/omb.htm
Reads yamaha style files and plays in real time. Turns any keyboard with midi into an arranger keyboard.
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Goroway
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:46 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Automatic accomp software?
My uncle has a clavinova which has the cool ability to automatically accompany his playing in realtime by understanding the chord and melody.
So, this weekend I decided to finally build a computer to attach to my MkIV expressly to try to find software which would do the same thing.
The computer is working fine, and so is the MIDI functionality. ..now I just have to figure out what software will actually do this for me! I played with band-in-a-box a bit...but it does not seem to allow for this sort of thing in real time...it wants you to first enter all of the chords. Is there other software which can do this? Am I asking too much?
If it matters, I built the computer running windows 98se.
Thanks in advance!
-Kevin