"Midi File Player"

[gibbo]

Right! No, the Kawai Q80EX won't work for him, it's just a player with no onboard sounds.
Now that I know exactly what he needs I'll keep a lookout for you. There's was an SD35 on American Ebay a little while back, they seem to go pretty quickly.
Cheers, Dave.
Here's something that might work;
Roland MT 90 S MIDI Music Player

[weegeo]

Hi there freeway i think i`ve found you an sd35 we had 2 of them and i thought we had sold them both but my partner reminded me that we had kept 1 i`ll see if i can find it and if your friend is still after 1 then make me an offer.Poor old shyam has started a good thread now with his air guitars and keyboards lol lol lol

Kind Regards from the sunny North

Weegeo [George]

[thingyy]

I have 2 kawai ex's. Replaced them with a laptop mainly because of having to carry floppies . I had more flexability using 2 sequencers switchable to the sound module than using sets in the laptop.

[freeway]

Cheerz weego..............if you find it let me know.................thanx also gibbo for your e bay link I'll look into that as well ............a laptop would be an option with the right software ..... but you'd pay big bucks for a used laptop over here...........unless maybe someone has one lying around somewhere or in the attic and has no use for it .........maybe we could deal........ ;D

[Steptoe]

gibbo said:

Right! No, the Kawai Q80EX won't work for him, it's just a player with no onboard sounds.
Now that I know exactly what he needs I'll keep a lookout for you. There's was an SD35 on American Ebay a little while back, they seem to go pretty quickly.
Cheers, Dave.
Here's something that might work;
Roland MT 90 S MIDI Music Player

The postage to Aust is pretty steep!

[freeway]

Ya crazy shipping charges to Ireland...also ..............Anyway...found a Roland MT300 in E Bay UK and put in a bid hopefully I'll get it ........ auction ends on Wed 30th May and the shipping costs shouldn't be too much......... so I'll let ye know how I get on...........Cheerz

[shezza]

Shanless,I would love to know what make your Mini-Disc players
are,(Because of foot switches)..............................Pete.

[freeway]

As far as I'm aware a foot switch can be attatched to any mini disk player via the play/pause button.....................that's how mine was setup anyway......................

[levi2]

yupp i know someone who got there minidisc player modified so it had a foot switch cant remember if a extra jack socket was added or linked up to the headphone socket

[shanless]

Hi shezza....sorry for not getting back to you sooner...I was in Dublin and met up with larryc at one of his gigs...great night it was too.....any way, back to the minidisc players...I have two sony JE330 players and a mate of mine who works for British Telecom modified them for me...basically it works of the play/pause buttons...he's done a few for other singers as well...works real fine once you get the hang of it....I had teething problems with them at the start but they're ok now

[freeway]

Latest Update!!!!!!!! Won the Roland MT330 on Wed auction on EBay so my friend will be chuffed I'm sure.....................never realised in the space of a couple of years how obsolete the midi players have become...............anyway thanks to all who contributed........ eventhough at times it drifted into the world of robots and air guitars lol ;D but thats what makes this such a great forum with views and opinions from everyone some helpful others controversial but hey its all about our deep rooted love for music and midi which goes hand in hand......Cheerz

[Emerald Midi]

freeway69 said:

Latest Update!!!!!!!! Won the Roland MT330 on Wed auction on EBay so my friend will be chuffed I'm sure.....................never realised in the space of a couple of years how obsolete the midi players have become...............anyway thanks to all who contributed........ eventhough at times it drifted into the world of robots and air guitars lol ;D but thats what makes this such a great forum with views and opinions from everyone some helpful others controversial but hey its all about our deep rooted love for music and midi which goes hand in hand......Cheerz

Brilliant news Freeway69. Delighted to see you get a result,

[levi2]

shanless did he put a extra socket on for the jack or did he rig it up to the headphone socket

[shanless]

Hi Levi...he has put another socket at the rear of each player

[levi2]

Hi....shanless thnx for the info sounds like a good idea what i do is add a extra 10 secs of nothing onto each track except for the ones that the next track is gonna play straight away this gives me time to press the pause button but still a footswitch will look more professional

[Emerald Midi]

levi2 said:

Hi....shanless thnx for the info sounds like a good idea what i do is add a extra 10 secs of nothing onto each track except for the ones that the next track is gonna play straight away this gives me time to press the pause button but still a footswitch will look more professional

I am fortunate in that my keyboard has a built in midi player. I can change key, tempo and even remove instruments where necessary.

[levi2]

i used to have a midifile player yamaha mdf2 linked to a tone generator only thing was i spent a lot of time editing filles so none of them conflicted ie pitch bend volumes etc etc so what i do now is load up a midfile in me laptop edit ie change key take out melody track volume levels on each inst are usually fine then record direct thru yamaha mu50 onto minidisk

Im still looking for a mp3 player thats like me minidisc midi hifi separate size nice text display biggish control buttons the only thing i seen that was close was a netgear mp3 player but it was all remote control

[Tiny]

hi barry
glad to see you got what u where lookin for
mate, your friend might even buy you a few
beer,s eh!!!! rgd,s Tiny ;D ;D

[freeway]

Thanks Tiny .. ...................glad also ...as he's back from holidays next week ...........hopefully I'll have it by then .....as I'll need to suss out the player for him....because he hasn't a clue about midi players............Cheerz

[ramon1108]

Hi Tiny,
Just want to ask your opinion. I've been using Roland MC 50 mk 11 and SC 55 mk 11 for my job as a musician for almost 15 years and the problem I am encountering is the Alpha Dial, it gets worn out everytime. My friend recommended that I have to use Laptop instead of the old sequencer. Please advice me on this subject. I love using the Mc 50.
Thanx nmore power to you