Ability to change tracks in mid play

[wally]

I want (DESPERATELY!!) the ability to re-assign the tracks for left and right hands while the file plays -- without having to stop and restart the song.

[Avi-J]

Wally,

Would you like do to it "on the fly" or set it up ahead fo time?

[wally]

Both would be nice. The problem I really want to solve is where I have a multi-track midi file and I want to browse through each of the tracks using the score display while it plays. I'd like to look at the score for each track, one by one, without having to stop the file, change the track assignment, and restart the file.

[Andreas]

Hi wally,
if you want to see the score of all tracks of a midifile you will need "Midinotate", which is a quite useful software. I use it very often to have the score even of my own compositions, f.i. to see what the epiano in the stylesection I have chosen, is playing.
Have a look at this link: http://www.notation.com/
I hope this will help...
;)

[PEPyle]

I believe that something built into the console would be better, a mixer similar to the output window from vanBasco's Karaoke Player.
http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/

In that window you can see the voices for the channels, watch a guidelamp-type display for all 16 channels, and set the volume for each channel.

Add the abilities to set the guide channels, easily revoice, and save; without all the button manipulation currently required to change the channels linked to the guide lamps.

[Carlo]

I agree on this wish of Wally.

In practice, it would be great to be able to do as follows:
(1) Take a complex score (e.g. a symphonic piece).
(2) Navigate throughout the various parts of the score and decide beforehand which bars in which tracks should be assigned to the two channels you wish to play by yourself (i.e. left and right hand).
(3) Save this setting as a sort of "control file".
(4) Let the score be played under the monitoring of the saved "control file" with the GUIDING and SCORE functions on, and get these two effects:
(4.1) through the GUIDING: the CVP expects you to play the right note at the right place, according to the setting (i.e. your pre-programmed "navigation" of the score);
(4.2) through the SCORE: the CVP shows you at the right time (while the song is being played) the right bars on the display, namely the correct "window" on the score.

This would be really great, as long as you may be interested in playing many soloist parts, embedded in a song, that occur in several places, at different times.
At present, you can only choose two of them at the very beginning, and that's all.
For symphonic pieces, for example, this is severely limiting.

As a technical issue, this "navigation" function and its related "windowing" function could be, in my opinion, an excellent driver (in the final user perspective) to improve the management of internal memory, its "paging", and the quantization and display capabilities, all of which have been discussed in recent threads.

But I don't want to embark myself into design problems that regard Yamaha engineers.

I only claim that some technical decisions on next-generation CVP's ought to take into serious considerations those user scenarios.
I suppose the internal software of the CVP might become a little more sophisticated, but it's sure that the basic functions it should rely on are already there.

Best regards,