Disklavier

This may simply be your use of terminology but here goes (tracks vs
channels).

In type 1 SMF files, tracks are used to manage notes for a particular
instrument.  You can have track 1 contain notes for a violin and track 5
contain notes for a piano.  Switching the tracks around won't change
anything as far as your Disklavier is concerned.  What is really important,
especially for the older Disklaviers, is the channel assignment.  You have
to make sure that the piano track is assigned to channel 1.  You also have
to make sure that your piano track doesn't have a "program" event that
assigns the channel to an instrument other than "piano".

You might also come across midi files with the left and right hands split
into separate tracks with one track assigned to channel 1 and the other to
channel 2. I have also sometimes seen a third track that contains only the
pedal information.  The neat thing about this is your Disklavier can then
be set to play only one of the hands.

A SMF type 0 midi file contains only 1 track with all the channel
indicators embedded into the single track.  A SMF type 1 midi file contains
several tracks with each track assigned to a channel.

Jack








"fakepopster" <raydene@...> on 01/22/2002 05:01:32 PM

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 Subject:  [disklavier] MX100A won't play converted midi      
           file\sequencing woes                               
                                                              







I followed the Dkvutils instructions listed in an archived message at
this site to the letter.  Everything went exactly as described,
however, when I attempted to play it, it appears to be reading and
playing it but the piano does not move except for one note.

I am using the correctly formatted older DD disks and converting a
midi file to an e-seq file.  After I converted it the first time I
took a look at the midi file through sequencing software.  Anvil
Studio is the software.  The piano was on track eight so that
probably explains why I hear nothing on that file.

Then I edited the midi file to have piano on track 1.  The file
showed bass and drums on other tracks but is a piano ONLY file and
when played on my PC, those tracks didn't seem to contain anything
other than an instrument name.  I deleted those tracks except the
piano on track 1 and converted the file again.  This is the file that
plays one note and appears to keep reading but no sound.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?  Did I miss something
easy?  Thanks for any help!



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