Disklavier

In addition: Cakewalk Sonar works fine also, but may be overkill.
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is a great program too.


--- In disklavier@y..., "Thomas N. Wheeler" <tnwheeler@n...> wrote:
> Carol,
> 
> I was referring to the use of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 as the software 
> sequencer which I use to adjust internet midi files for playback on 
the 
> disklavier.  I have had no problems whatsoever with  Cakewalk Pro 
Audio 
> 9 crashing or not working properly on the PC that I am using (an 
850 MHz 
> AMD Athlon processor and Windows 98SE).  One thing to note in 
Cakewalk 
> Pro Audio 9, however, is that if you scale velocities within the 
tracks 
> display, this scaling will not permanently alter the file but will 
only 
> alter the note velocities on playback from Cakewalk.  To alter the 
> velocities in the midi file itself in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 select 
> Edit>Scale Velocity and you can then alter the velocities in the 
midi 
> file either by an absolute amount or scale by a percentage.  Of 
course, 
> this can be done on a track by track basis to yield the desired 
balance 
> of various instruments (including the disklavier piano) within the 
> music.  There is an excellent book (435 pages) entitled Cakewalk 
Power!" 
> by Scott R. Garrigus available from Barnes & Noble which I have 
found to 
> be an indispensable guide to Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. 
> 
> If you have only one sound card in your computer and another 
program is 
> using the midi port, it is not unusual to have a crash result when 
you 
> attempt to have another program address the same midi port. 
> 
> I have also recently purchased and started to use a software 
sequencer 
> by Yamaha entitled XG Works (http://xgmidi.wtal.de/ ) which allows 
for 
> very detailed editing of the XG voices produced by  my Yamaha 
> disklavier's tone generator.  I t also allows for extensive 
adjustments 
> to velocities and a score of other XG specific parameters. 
> 
> Tom