Disklavier

I gathered these off the internet in the midi form.  They seem to work
on my Mark IV.  I did have to set the piano part Ch right and Ch left
for a few of those that were not set.  Some of these are good and some
are very simple in structure.  Just thought they would be nice for
grandkids and small kids that might be interested in singing some
simple songs and might give them an interest in the piano.

As far as the lyrics, there is an option in MidiSwing (software
available on the Mac) to import lyrics, but I was not sure which
format the file containing the lyrics needed to be.

Joan


 to  --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "George F. Litterst"
<PianoBench@...> wrote:
>
> Good morning, everyone.
> 
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Spencer_Lists wrote:
> 
> > Joan,
> >
> > I got your kids songs and tried to play them with my file player.  
> > Your files all use note off events instead of note on with velocity  
> > 0 to turn them off. This is unusual although legal MIDI. What is  
> > most strange is that the velocity in the note off message varies and  
> > is not 0. I have never seen this before. It may be some way of  
> > encoding aftertouch with which I am not familiar....
> >
> 
> I cannot comment on how Joan's files were made, but I can say that the  
> Disklavier does use note-off messages instead of note-on with velocity  
> 0. This is important in the case of the models that actually measure  
> the speed of the key release and use this information during playback.
> 
> Although I am not absolutely certain, I think that all Disklavier  
> models that do not measure release velocity generate note-off with  
> velocity of 64 when the key is released.
> 
> It seems to me that note-off with a velocity of 0 is a meaningless  
> concept, but I think that it is a legal message.
> 
> Regards,
> PianoBench
>