Disklavier

Hi, everybody.

If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do when you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this video I uploaded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ

As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier.  This causes every keypress to be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each note.   I used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI effects, but I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this and other fun things.

Hope you enjoy!


David Broman

Enjoyed the video, David.  My kids love to make videos and pretend
they are playing and singing while the piano plays ... provides a lot
of laughs around here at holidays.  

Have you got any new midis available? ... I believe you had one disk
on CD Baby that I bought last year.

Thanks
Joan

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, David Broman <davbr@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody.
> 
> If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do when
you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this video
I uploaded:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ
> 
> As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer
sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out
routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier.  This causes every keypress to
be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each note.   I
used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI effects, but
I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this and other fun
things.

> 
> Hope you enjoy!
> 
> 
> David Broman
>

Thanks for that video Dave. Can you post or send me step by step 
instruction on how to do the midi tricks. I am connected via wireless 
router, running xp sp2

Thanks

Terry


-- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, David Broman <davbr@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody.
> 
> If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do 
when you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this 
video I uploaded:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ
> 
> As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer 
sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out 
routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier.  This causes every keypress 
to be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each 
note.   I used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI 
effects, but I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this 
and other fun things.

> 
> Hope you enjoy!
> 
> 
> David Broman
>

Hi, Joan, glad you enjoyed the video.  I don't have any new MIDIs at the moment; we're still focusing on the first CD.

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Joan Heitzeberg (Conahan)
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:50 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Video of Disklavier with cool computer MIDI effects


Enjoyed the video, David. My kids love to make videos and pretend
they are playing and singing while the piano plays ... provides a lot
of laughs around here at holidays.

Have you got any new midis available? ... I believe you had one disk
on CD Baby that I bought last year.

Thanks
Joan

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com<mailto:disklavier%40yahoogroups.com>, David Broman <davbr@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody.
>
> If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do when
you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this video
I uploaded:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ
>
> As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer
sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out
routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier. This causes every keypress to
be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each note. I
used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI effects, but
I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this and other fun
things.

>
> Hope you enjoy!
>
>
> David Broman
>

Hi, Terry!

The instructions would depend a lot on the sequencer you're using, and probably on the piano, too.  I don't have one of those new Mark IV's with their fancy internet connections.  :-).  My connection to the computer is through wired MIDI.  My XP sp2 computer has a MIDI interface that exposes a MIDI in & MIDI out.  I connect my piano's MIDI out to the interface's MIDI in, and the piano's MIDI in to the interface's MIDI out.  Then, from the sequencer, it sees the piano's MIDI connection like it would any other MIDI device.  Is that similar to how your wireless connection works?  Also, what kind of sequencer do you run?  If it's not Cakewalk, I wouldn't be able to give you specific instructions that work for you.



                                                Thanks,
                                                Dave

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of yeloc2
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:56 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Video of Disklavier with cool computer MIDI effects


Thanks for that video Dave. Can you post or send me step by step
instruction on how to do the midi tricks. I am connected via wireless
router, running xp sp2

Thanks

Terry

-- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com<mailto:disklavier%40yahoogroups.com>, David Broman <davbr@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody.
>
> If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do
when you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this
video I uploaded:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ
>
> As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer
sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out
routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier. This causes every keypress
to be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each
note. I used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI
effects, but I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this
and other fun things.

>
> Hope you enjoy!
>
>
> David Broman
>

Thanks Dave,

I think I am going to be better off using hardwire, I do not even 
know if it is possible on a wireless network or not. I do appreciate 
your input and that was really neat what you did. I wish Yamaha would 
add to their site a non musician site showing easy fun things to do 
with the mk4.

Thanks again

Terry


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, David Broman <davbr@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, Terry!
> 
> The instructions would depend a lot on the sequencer you're using, 
and probably on the piano, too.  I don't have one of those new Mark 
IV's with their fancy internet connections.  :-).  My connection to 
the computer is through wired MIDI.  My XP sp2 computer has a MIDI 
interface that exposes a MIDI in & MIDI out.  I connect my piano's 
MIDI out to the interface's MIDI in, and the piano's MIDI in to the 
interface's MIDI out.  Then, from the sequencer, it sees the piano's 
MIDI connection like it would any other MIDI device.  Is that similar 
to how your wireless connection works?  Also, what kind of sequencer 
do you run?  If it's not Cakewalk, I wouldn't be able to give you 
specific instructions that work for you.
> 
> 
> 
>                                                 Thanks,
>                                                 Dave
> 
> ________________________________
> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of yeloc2
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:56 AM
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [disklavier] Re: Video of Disklavier with cool computer 
MIDI effects
> 
> 
> Thanks for that video Dave. Can you post or send me step by step
> instruction on how to do the midi tricks. I am connected via 
wireless
> router, running xp sp2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Terry
> 
> -- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com<mailto:disklavier%
40yahoogroups.com>, David Broman <davbr@> wrote:

> >
> > Hi, everybody.
> >
> > If you're curious what kinds of weird and fun things you can do
> when you hook up your Disklavier to a computer, you might enjoy this
> video I uploaded:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF-U744FqQ
> >
> > As I play each note, the MIDI out gets routed to a computer
> sequencer, running a delay octave MIDI effect, with its MIDI out
> routed back into the Yamaha Disklavier. This causes every keypress
> to be duplicated down several octaves, with delays between each
> note. I used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with one of its built-in MIDI
> effects, but I'm sure most decent sequencers will be able to do this
> and other fun things.
> >
> > Hope you enjoy!
> >
> >
> > David Broman
> >
>