MIDI playback of piano rolls on Hammond XK-2 and Roland GR-1 synthesizer

I'm using a Dell computer with 128 meg ram and 400 mhz. processor running Slackware 12.2 and KDE to play piano rolls and reed organ roll midi files on the Hammond XK-2 electronic organ and Roland GR-1 synthesizer. I was able to download the midi files from the world wide web. They were made by scanning piano rolls using special equipment.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• MIDI
• playback
• of
• piano
• rolls
• on
• Hammond
• XK-2
• and
• Roland
• GR-1
• synthesizer
• reed
• organ
• keyboard
• slackware
• 12.2
• linux
• kmid

[xmaddict]

Love that Synth and Peavy Mixer/Amp

[gashog7]

I have been searching the web over to find a way to scan old piano rolls into midi. Do you have this special equipment to scan them or know of what kind it is?

[19FD89]

@nicolaj0154 no. It´s Slackware Linux. The PC had Win95/98 on it when it was new. I think.

[nicolaj0154]

what system is it?,

windows 98/95?.

[Lockemeister]

great demo and it sounds real good

[dburrigh]

I used to have one of those Dell OptiPlex PC's at work, I used that machine from 2000 to 2004. It was just a primary workstation that I used for e-mail and writing documents.

Cool playback of the MIDI files as well. I didn't know they scanned those old piano rolls like that.

[maynardcat]

Very interesting video. This is something new to me. It looks like a rather complex setup, but a lot of fun. I really liked the ragtime piano.

[19FD89]

Is that dell an optiplex, too? Look like it.

[marshalauth]

You should try Miditzer on a windows machine with that setup.

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

I if you can track down a Roland SCC-1 you wont be disappointed if you are doing MIDI composition and playback.