There are a lot of midi pianos for sale from the 80s and 90s with 5 pin midi conns.Some of these older pianos have good action...maybe in their day they cost a lot.... is it hard to pull the midi stuff out of the back and replace it with USB guts
to go DI into a computer DAW..??
Curious, my DX7 and all my Yamahas since have never done anything strange at all?
^^^^^^^^^^^^What he said !It is an interesting way of spending your time.
But you would simply be replicating this:
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I am talking OLD old Rob! PSS 790 IIRC. Bought it for son, nifty, uncollected repair.
Dunno how OLD it has to be but the DX7 was their very first midi kb and it was more or less fine.
It had some abbreviations.
Only transmit on Ch1
Transmit velocity 1-100 instead of 0-127.
But you can't argue with their midi integration. Every parameter. Pretty sweet.
Some of the PS series had sequencers which, you're right, were initially unpredictable. But they weren't flexible, either, so once you figured it out (ahem... RTFM) it was no biggie.
But that's how Yamaha kinda was. They did what they did and everyone else just kinda had to make way for them.