Disklavier

Hi

It is NOT just a case of re-mapping DOC to Midi Voices as you have 
to re-map the drums as well as changing channels.

Midi 


                                                                     
  Greetings ISKI1,
> 
> I was not referring to the remap channels program. I wrote a 
separate
> program for remapping patch messages. You can change the voice 
that a
> part will play by changing the channel of all events to a channel 
that
> has a patch set to the voice that you want but if the file does not
> have the patches that you want of if there are specific 
requirements
> of the playback instrument (in this case the DKV) you may have to
> changes the patches.
> 
> I looked at one of the files that you sent (MDR_00) as an example. 
It
> has 10 channels and a 15th called FX (soundtrack). Channel 10 is
> percussion and is assigned to marimba at the beginning of the file.
> None of the channels is assigned to piano.
> 
> This type of file usually needs individual attention in a sequencer
> program to convert it to something that will play on the piano. 
There
> are some steps that can be done automatically once you know what 
is in
> the file. If I were to work on a file such as this, I would 
probably
> use a combination of my own MIDI processing tools and cakewalk. 
Here
> is a brief listing of a few of my tools and how they can be used to
> understand and possibly convert a file such as this one for use on 
the
> DKV.
> 
> "List MIDI events to Log" produces a text listing of all events in 
the
> file. There are options to suppress note and or controller events 
in
> the listing to make the file smaller so you can concentrate on 
other
> events that might be of greater interest. You can display time as
> either the original "delta" time or as cumulative time (both shown 
in
> MIDI ticks) A few general statistics are shown at the beginning of 
the
> log such as MIDI file type (0,1) TPQ, and then the events of each
> track are listed starting with a count of the number of events. You
> can learn an awful lot about a file by examining the event listing.
> 
> "Remap note events" and "remap channels" can be used for various
> purposes. For example if you only need to move events to channel 1 
so
> the DKV will play them as piano you can do it with remap channels. 
You
> can remap single notes transpose or delete notes with remap notes. 
You
> can limit the action of remap notes to a single channel so you 
could,
> for example change percussion on channel 10 by changing note 
numbers
> on this channel which is an exception and uses note values to 
choose
> percussion types.
> 
> "Remap patches" will allow the substitution of any patch number for
> another. I just wrote this for someone who wanted it for a specific
> purpose but I forget what that was. Patches can be inserted at any
> point in a file so they may change the voice that events on a
> particular channel play over time although this is not common 
usage.
> Most people set a patch on each channel that is used, at the 
beginning
> of the file, and leave it that way.
> 
> "MIDI cleaner" can be very useful to remove a lot of the strange 
stuff
> that might mess up a particular instrument. It only leaves basic 
MIDI
> events in the file and removes stranger stuff including sysex and
> invalid messages.
> 
> "Midimod2" does a variety of things. The main use is to modify
> velocity (loudness) profiles but there are a number of other
> functions, some of which included at the request of DKV owners. The
> program includes a help file that explains how to use it.
> 
> "MIDI 1-0" converts type 1 files to type 0. It is similar to the 
many
> other converters but has one additional feature. It is common to 
use
> the track name of various tracks to hold text information. When a 
file
> is converted to type 0 all track names except the one on track 1 is
> lost. My program saves this data as text events.
> 
> There are a bunch of other utilities on the files4download page of 
my
> web site and a doc that explains many of them.
> 
> In a couple of weeks I may have a lot of time available for
> programming while being stuck somewhere with little to do. I have 
been
> wanting to put a bunch of my little utilities into a graphical
> framework to make them easier to use. If anyone has ideas as to 
what
> should be included please let me know. Any ideas on MIDI processing
> utilities that might be useful would also be entertained. I have
> written a lot of utilities over the last ten years for my own use.
> Others may have completely different needs.
> 
> Best regards,
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