Disklavier

----- Original Message -----

From: bdpotts

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:11 PM

Subject: [disklavier] Re: Help with Cakewalk

CapZ65,

The Cakewalk "track" is not as important as the "Channel" selected
for the track.

Assuming you are going to create a "Type 1" midi file you usually
assign the piano right hand to channel 1 and the left hand to channel
2 and make sure they have the grand piano patch.

In looking at the piece you uploaded (absentfriends.mid) the "tracks"
and "channels" are the same. Track/Channel 6, 7, and 9 have a grand
piano patch.

Here's what I would do. For some reason track/channel 6 and 9 have
the general MIDI grand piano patch. Since they both have the same
patch, the can play on the same channel. I would assign these two
tracks to channel 1 (double click on each track and change the
channel to 1).

Track/channel 7 has the XG grand piano patch. I would assign this
track to channel 2 by double clicking the track and changing the
channel to 2.

A third option would be to make all the patches the same (either
general midi or XG grand piano) and you can mix and match channels 1
and 2. If you don't really care and they are all the same patch,
just put them all to channel 1.

I hope this helps.

Brian

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "CapZ65" wrote:
> Any users of Cakewalk may be able to help with this. For most
midis,
> moving the Acoustic Grand pieces to tracks 1 or 2 is good enough to
> allow the Disklavier to play them. However I found a few that just
> won't save to disk that way. When I reopen the file, the first four
> tracks are empty again.
> I uploaded a file to the site named "absentfriends.mid. It's in
> Yamaha format. If anyone could take a look I'd appreciate it.
> Thanks in advance.



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