Disklavier

In the early days of the Disklavier, prior to the Mark IIXG, on-off pedal information was stored on channels 1 & 2 and incremental pedal data was stored on channel 3. In addition, files were normally recorded in E-SEQ format.

Starting with the Mark IIXG, it became much more common to record in SMF Type 0 format, and incremental pedals were stored on the same channels as the notes and on/off pedals, which is to say on channels 1 & 2.

(In both cases, having pedals on channel 2 was only for the purpose of having them there if the right and left hands were split to separate tracks, typically left hand on channel 1 and right hand on channel 2.)

In the case of the Signature MIDI Collection, normal SMF and XP SMF files have the pedal data only on channel 1, which is also the channel where the note data is located. If you are sending the data from a computer to an early model Disklavier, it may not handle the incremental pedaling at all with this channelization. In such a case, it is best to use the E-SEQ files from the Signature MIDI Collection since the pedals are on the standard channels for E-SEQ files. I doubt, however, that the Van Basco player will play E-SEQ files.

Regards,

PianoBench