Disklavier

Good morning, again.

Mike, in my previous message, I provided a procedure for sending MIDI  
data from the Disklavier to an external device when you are playing a  
song file on disk. I would like to point out that if your objective  
is to transcribe the output into music notation, you have a lot of  
work ahead of you.

Regardless as to whether you transfer the MIDI data from disk to  
computer in real time or find a way to read the disk in your computer  
and convert the data to a MIDI file, you will find that the data will  
not line up to logical beats and barlines in your sequencer or music  
notation program. This means that the music notation will appear in  
coherent.

Although it is possible to reclock such a file (in order to align the  
notes to logical beats and barlines and still maintain the music  
integrity of the original performance on playback), that can be a lot  
of work.

There are, however, lots of MIDI files on the Internet whose data is  
properly aligned to logical beats and barlines.

Regards,
PianoBench


On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:12 PM, yamahamale wrote:

> Thank you for the reply Carol. Maybe "score" was not the term to use.
> I have been writing rock, slow rock, country and meditation. But some
> of the music I have written include guitar as well as piano so maybe
> score is the word to use on some of my work. I really haven't gotten
> in depth with the Power Tracks software. I was assuming it would print
> notation for all parts. I did have my XP hooked up to the piano. But
> since I couldn't get my disks to show up in the software as it was
> being played by the disklavier, I chose to go with Windows98 and see
> if that would make a difference. Years ago I was told to use an eight
> pin at the "To Host" port on the piano and a nine pin to the IBM PC's
> serial port. I did that this time and set the switch on the back of
> the control box to PC2. I have a lot of work that needs to be edited
> in MIDI. It was all put on disks through the Disklavier so I am
> guessing it is in Yamaha ESEQ format. I did not alter anything on the
> piano after it arrived as far as file format goes. The Disklavier
> allows me to record up to 99 files per floppy. I have tried putting a
> recorded disk straight into the computer and it cannot be read by the
> PC. When I do that, all I get is the PC asking me if I want to format
> the disk. When I pull up the properties value on the disk, it tells me
> there is nothing on the disk. So I think I need to get the ESEQ file
> into MIDI format so that the software can read it. I did some
> searching and found what I believe is your web site, www.carolrpt.com,
> explaining a lot of things. I've been trying to get it all down today
> while at the same time working. I think I need to download dkvutil and
> use ESEQ2MID if I am reading right. But after reading one of your
> pages, I'm not sure of what format I am recording to. I can record up
> to 99 files onto a floppy. Your web page says, "How many songs can I
> put on a floppy disk? About 99 standard MIDI files or 60 songs in
> Yamaha ESEQ format" If that is correct then I might be recording with
> MIDI format instead of Yamaha ESEQ. But I would think that my software
> would be able to read the Midi files. Is there a way I can find out
> what format I have been recording to? I've been using IBM formatted
> 2SHD 1.44MB floppies. I've never had to format a disk before using it
> in the Disklavier. Mike