Disklavier

Well, I see you found the site with pirated copies of PG Music's Jazz
Pianist series (a title which PG Music no longer sell).  I purchased this
title a long time ago (1995?).

Here's what the original looks like when converted to text using Gunter
Nagler's MIDI utilities  The first three tracks don't contain notes. The
fourth track, the piano, is assigned to channel 3.  Sorry for the length of
this post, but it might help to see the MIDI file textually.  I cut out a
lot of uninteresting stuff.

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// jp006.mid
mthd
  version 1 // several tracks with seperated channels to play all at once
  // 4 tracks
  unit 480 // is 1/4
end mthd

mtrk
  key "1b maj"
  smpteofs 3 00:00:00:0:0
  metaevent 127  $00 $00 $00 $6A $00 $01 $31 $84 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00
$00 $00
     $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $14 $27 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $4D $1D
     $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $31 $06 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00
     $00 $00 $4C $03 $00 $00 $40 $27 $00 $00 $40 $1D $00 $00 $31 $06
.
. (text cut)
.
  beats 155.00031
  tact 4 / 4 24 8

end mtrk

mtrk
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Bass"

end mtrk

mtrk
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Drums"

end mtrk

mtrk($3)
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Piano"
  16;+c3 $5B;
  9;+b2 $51;
  41;-b2 $00;
  462;+g#4 $4E;
  13;+e4 $31;
  99;-g#4 $00;
  40;-e4 $00;
  182;+e4 $43;
  8;+g#4 $4A;
  96;-e4 $00;
  29;+f4 $51;
.
. (text cut)
.
end mtrk

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Here's my modified version that I play on my Disklavier.  I have changed
the channel assignment for the fourth track to 1.  I also added a trackname
to the first track so that EEXPLORE will have a nice title for the ESEQ
version of the MIDI file.

// XJP006.MID
mthd
  version 1 // several tracks with seperated channels to play all at once
  // 4 tracks
  unit 480 // is 1/4
end mthd

mtrk
  trackname "Alexander's Rag Time Band: Berlin,I."
  key "1b maj"
  smpteofs 3 00:00:00:0:0
  metaevent 127  $00 $00 $00 $6A $00 $01 $31 $84 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00
$00 $00
     $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $14 $27 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $4D $1D
     $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $31 $06 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00 $00
     $00 $00 $4C $03 $00 $00 $40 $27 $00 $00 $40 $1D $00 $00 $31 $06
.
. (text cut)
.
  beats 155.00031
  tact 4 / 4 24 8

end mtrk

mtrk
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Bass"

end mtrk

mtrk
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Drums"

end mtrk

mtrk($1)
  prefixport 0
  trackname "Piano"
  program Piano
  16;+c3 $5B;
  9;+b2 $51;
  41;-b2 $00;
  462;+g#4 $4E;
  13;+e4 $31;
  99;-g#4 $00;
  40;-e4 $00;
  182;+e4 $43;
  8;+g#4 $4A;
  96;-e4 $00;
  29;+f4 $51;
.
. (text cut)
.
end mtrk
******************************
Hope this helps.

Jack








"fakepopster" <raydene@...> on 01/23/2002 05:25:49 PM

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 Subject:  [disklavier] Re: MX100A won't play converted midi  
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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:
>
> 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@n...> on 01/22/2002 05:01:32 PM
>
> Please respond to disklavier@y...
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>

>

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>  To:       disklavier@y...
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>  cc:       (bcc: Jack Schueler/SYBASE)
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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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