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Re: Perfessor Bill

2014-06-05 by georgeall@...

I use the open source program MuseScore (at musescore.org/en ) to fix Perfessor Bill's midi files and play them on my Disklavier.

Perfessor Bill scores his piano pieces with a bass clef and two treble clefs; only the bass clef and one of the treble clefs play the acoustic piano -- the other treble clef part goes to the tone generator. To fix this, open the midi file with MuseScore and:
  1. Select the first treble staff by clicking on the first note or rest and shift-click on the last one.
  2. Go to Edit Voices Exchange Voice 1-2.
  3. Select the second treble staff by clicking on the first note or rest and shift-click on the last one.
  4. Edit Copy.
  5. Select the first rest or note in the first treble staff.
  6. Edit Paste.
  7. Go to Edit Voices Exchange Voice 1-2.
  8. Delete the second treble staff, by Create Instruments, select the second staff and press Delete.
  9. Export the new midi file with File → Save As, and be sure to select midi as the new file type
The new file has two channels and plays successfully.
Unfortunately, there is no batch method for this.

George

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