Disklavier

Hi

I think you are addressing the wrong person here as I have already 
got a program that will convert DOC voices to GM AND re-map the drum 
sounds. This program was written way back on an Atari home computer 
and some of the code was used in Yamplayer.

Dave



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Spencer_Lists <lists@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings david962548,
> 
> you may be able to do all of this, without a sequencer if you look 
at
> a text dump of a MIDI file and figure out what is where and where 
it
> needs to be. STD MIDI files have percussion on channel 10 so you 
need
> to deal with this. Ideally you should have a sequencer program so 
you
> can play the file, hear it and determine what voices you want to 
keep
> and what you want to do with them. In most cases you will
> (understandably) give up and move on to the next file.
> 
> MIDI is just a format. You can do anything with it and you will 
find
> just about anything on the internet. Don't expect to turn some 
random
> found stuff that someone else assembled and turn it in to just what
> you want, with little effort. Would you expect to find some 
rambling
> prose written by Joe Smith and turn it into Shakespear with a 
computer
> program?
> 
> Monday, January 19, 2009, 5:27:28 PM, you wrote:
> > 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,
> >> Spencer_Lists Chase mailto:lists@
> >> 67550 Bell Springs Rd.
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> >>
> 
> >  
> 
> -- 
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