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I still have a very old, but fully functional Yamaha Clavinova CLP-50 back in Germany. While the keybaord action is very nice, the sound of the 1985 model is horrible, due to the ancient technology. Now the instrument DOES have MIDI ports and I wonder if it would make sense to connect it to a 'MIDI piano sound module' as they show up on Ebay? My main questions are: - how limited is the 1985 MIDI protocol as to polyphony/dynamic/speed? - will the old instrument indeed 'work' with a recent sound module (I only care for basic but realistic piano sound, no sequencing, no splitting, just good grand piano sound)? - Will I lose 'resolution' relative to the actual capabilities (polyphony, velocity) or is realtime MIDI as accurate as the internal sound processing? - What other obstacles are to be expected?
Thanks! michael
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heya Michael, As far a I know MIDI protocol hasn't actually changed since the 80's. Your old insstrument will work as well as it can work, IE: if it doen't have aftertouch & you are using it as your controler any sound module you plug it into will not have aftertouch available to it. The same goes for polyphony, what the module recives will be limited by your controler, if it has 8-voice polyphony the module will only be able to play 8 notes at once. I've never had any speed, or 'resolution' problems, realtime is realtime I've never had any lag with any of my systems. MIDI is pretty simple if you use it simply (which seems to be what you want to do). I use an esoniq VFXsd for my piano controller (put out in 1989 or 90 I believe) and use an EMU Proformance 1 module for my piano sounds. The proformance module is wonderful it has 16 bit stereo samples & I think you can find them used for under 100 bucks nowadays. This'll give you a rundown of the module http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/emu_proformance1.cfm Good Luck & Take Care, Rick ------------------ In order to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, think about the guy who invented sliced bread. He didn’t invent bread, he didn’t invent slicing. He just put together two things that hadn’t been put together before in a way people liked.
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