Thanks
Very good !
All the versions I have got before had the velocities set to a fixed value has you explain.
Rgds Damien
-----Message d'origine-----
De : jqw2
[mailto:johnq_10@...]
Envoyé : vendredi 11 février
2005 00:39
À :
disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Objet : [disklavier] Re:
goldberg variation
I'm going to play the role of Quality Police a
little here...
If you're getting these postings, you probably
have one of Yamaha's
incredible Disklavier or Disklavier Pro
instruments. The challenge
is finding source MIDI files that are up to the
quality of Yamaha's
wonderful hardware.
Dan O'Connor posted this interesting link this
morning:
; http://members.aol.com/prebigbang/gold.htm
Wow (yuck)! When you look internally at
those files, the quietest
note is struck at a velocity of 93 (out of
127). Quite Loud, with
little dynamic range! All the note releases
are set to the nonsense
value of 64 (i.e., the sequencer didn't know what
to do). This isn't
how people play the piano.
A good place to go for high-quality Disklavier
piano performances is
to the piano-e-competition site. In 2004,
Vera Oussetskaia played
the first 14 Goldberg Variations in Los Angeles at
her screening
round:
http://www.piano-e-
competition.com/contestantbios04/veraoussetskaia.htm
Unfortunately for us Disklavier Pro owners, for
all the screening-
round contestants (but not the finals in
Minneapolis), the XP Mode
(HD) MIDI files got touched by sequencer software
that didn't know
about XP Mode -- and all the NoteOff (release)
velocities were set to
0 (instead of something in the range of 0 to
1023). So, even if
downloading from the piano-e-competition site (for
the screening
round only), you don't get what was actually
recorded off the piano.
I have posted Vera's original performance in the
Classical/Files
section of this Disklavier forum (file
ousset03z.mid). It's in all
its Disklavier Pro glory, so it should play wonderfully
on all Mark
III and IV Disklaviers. Regular MIDI and
ESEQ files are on the Web
page I've cited.
- John Q.
Zenph Studios
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