Topic: Wireless MIDI?
It's not coincidental that this question arises at the same time as the release of the Model B. I have one or two too many keyboards, and I would like to make some cables go away so that I can play the Model B and other pianos in different rooms. Has anyone set up a wireless MIDI system using Pianoteq, or for that matter, with a conventional piano multisample?
The basic question, of course, is simply: Does it work reliably? More freezes or disconnects? Troubles keeping up with big polyphony crunches on piano runs or chords?
Some other questions come to mind:
1. There seem to be several brands, and Yamaha has introduced their own system at this year's NAMM. Does one brand seem to be better than another? (Here's the Yamaha page describing their two interfaces, one for a keyboard with a USB port and another for keyboards with standard MIDI ports: http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-...nterfaces/ )
2. Can you set it up so that multiple keyboards can send and receive MIDI date? (Not necessarily at the same time.) I just want to have keyboards in different rooms, with each being able to connect wirelessly to a central computer running Pianoteq.
3. Any increase in latency?
4. The more worrisome question is, why haven't we seen wide-scale adoption, or at least promotion of wireless MIDI? It seems to offer a lot possibilities for home use and of course for stage. The ability to reduce the number of cables on-stage sounds like good news. But I haven't seen a big push. There was the announcement and some buzz a year or three ago, and then little was said. Or was there a silent revolution, and now everyone is using wireless MIDI, while I just haven't caught on?