Disklavier

Your explanations concerning tracks and channels help a lot!!  Also, I had 
no idea that Roland used Channels 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2 for the piano 
parts. I know that one of the reasons people buy Disklaviers is to be able 
to have a piano accompany another instrument, i.e. students playing flute, 
violin, clarinet, etc.; and be able to slow down the piano part while 
learning the other parts.  It is also helpful to understand which channels 
make the piano play so that only the piano parts can be turned down on songs 
that have ensemble parts.

BTW, where does one look for that meta tag that assigns the piano parts?  
How do you recommend reducing those "note-on" velocities - edit them 
individually or globally?

>From: PianoBench@...
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [disklavier] twang, twang twang...
>Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:54:26 EDT
>
>Good evening, everyone.
>
SNIP>
From a technical point of view, a Type 0 file is a single-track
>file and a Type 1 file is a multitrack file.

>If you find the foregoing to be confusing, think of it like this: For all
>practical purposes, a Type 0 file acts like a multitrack file that has up 
>to
>16 tracks in it.
>
>A Type 1 file, however, can have an unlimited number of tracks. (Okay, 
>there
>is probably an upper limit, but no one ever reaches it!) HOWEVER, these
>tracks can only be assigned to a maximum of 16 channels. For example, you 
>can
>have a Type 1 file with 20 tracks, but every track will be assigned to a
>channel with a number between 1 and 16.
...>Similarly, you might want to sequence the left and right hand piano 
parts
>separately and keep them on separate tracks. However, since they use the 
>same
>voice, you might want to assign them to the same MIDI channel so that you
>have more channels available for other voices.
>
>If you take a Type 1 file and convert it to a Type 0 file, all of the 
>tracks
>that are assigned to the same MIDI channel are essentially combined 
>together.
>If, for example, you had originally put the high hat and the bass drum on
>separate tracks in a Type 1 file, then converted the file to Type 0, and 
>then
>opened it again in your sequencer, you would find that all of your drum 
>parts
>would appear on a single track assigned to channel 10.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Regards,
>PianoBench


Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...




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