Disklavier

Thanks for both replies.  

I do understand that the channel needs to be set to 1 or 2.  I should 
have said channel instead of track.  

The original files are here:

 http://www.landscape.it/vmagazine/panorami/midibox/jazzcollection.htm

I tried the first two songs with the same result.  I am attaching the 
midi versions of the files with my edits.  (Oh...how do you attach a 
file in this posting?  I couldn't even figure that out.)

I have since tried other files from other sites.  I edited the files 
the same way as I described before and had success reassigning 
channels and editing out other intruments.  They played fine.  
However, I still can't get the aforementioned songs to play.  

Perhaps it's midi 1 vs. midi 0.  I don't know how to tell which is 
which by looking at the file, although ALL the files I've worked with 
so far have multi channels and multi tracks.  If I understand you, 
this would mean they are SMF 1.

Also, tell me more about the "programmed event" on a track.  How can 
if I have it and what can I do about it?     


--- In disklavier@y..., Jack.Schueler@s... wrote:
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> 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
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> "fakepopster" <raydene@n...> on 01/22/2002 05:01:32 PM
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>  Subject:  [disklavier] MX100A won't play converted midi      
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> 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.
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> 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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