Output Splitting for duets?

• May 21, 2019 - 22:44

HI.

I have a Yamaha digital Piano with midi in/out connected via a midi/usb adapter. I also have an amplifier connected to the PC. My daughter wants to practice violin duets with her playing the violin and the keyboard playing the piano part. I also want to send the violin midi through the amplifier. So to sum up. How do I play a violin and piano duet midi/musescore file and split the output with one going to the digital piano and the violin midi part going out to the amp?

I'm on Windows 10 and I'm assuming it's a matter of finding the right software/config. Tried MuseScore and now playing with Anvil but no luck so far.

Any help appreciated.

Nick

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Jm6stringer

• May 22, 2019 - 06:26

My daughter wants to practice violin duets with her playing the violin and the keyboard playing the piano part.

For the Yamaha keyboard - to play a MuseScore notated piano accompaniment - see:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/preferences#midi-in-out

For the 'real' violin to sound through the amp, why not simply mic the violin (or use a contact pickup)?
A 'real' violin does not generate midi on its own to be sent through an amplifier.

I also want to send the violin midi through the amplifier.
Where is this violin midi coming from? A playable midi (electronic) violin? A MuseScore file?

Regards.

nicholas17

• May 22, 2019 - 08:51

Thanks.

I have a Midi/Musescore file with both piano and violin parts. I want the piano part to go to the keyboard as the sound from that is better and I want the violin part to go to the midi on the computer to be output through the amp.

No need to wire up the violin my daughter is playing at all.

Many thanks

Jm6stringer

• May 22, 2019 - 10:03

I have a Midi/Musescore file with both piano and violin parts.

If you have a single score with 2 (or more) instruments, there is no way, within MuseScore's native capabilities, to send different instruments' playback from a single score to different devices.

You can play the piano score (single instrument) through the Yamaha keyboard. Your daughter then plays solo violin to the piano accompaniment. (Though, in this case, there is no second violin at all.)

If your Yamaha digital keyboard can produce violin and piano sounds, you can play the MuseScore file (with both parts) through the digital piano. No need for the amplifier.

Regards.

AndreasKågedal

• May 22, 2019 - 15:47

Sure it is possible.

You want only the violin to sound through the speakers: open the mixer and mute the piano (or pull down the volume).

You want your yamaha piano to play the piano part over MIDI: Make sure the piano is selected as the MIDI output deviece and make sure the piano is listening to the midi channel Musescore is using for the piano part. Marc says it is possible in Musescore3 to configure which Midi channel to use, but otherwise, just set your piano to listen for one channel at a time until you find the channel it is using. (or use a midi-snooping program to figure out which one is used.)