Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

If the problem is limited to PianoSoft Plus files, I suspect that you  
have files in which the piano tracks have a message that sets  
controller 7 (volume) = 0.

The earliest Disklaviers paid no attention to the MIDI message  
controller 7 as far as the piano was concerned. And, those early  
Disklaviers did not have a tone generator.

When Yamaha started to develop song files with other MIDI tracks, they  
found that if you played the files on an early model Disklavier with a  
tone generator attached, all of the MIDI tracks would be sent to the  
external tone generator. As a result, you would hear the piano tracks  
played twice: once played by the tone generator and once played by the  
piano itself.

So, Yamaha put in the controller 7 = 0 message in the piano tracks to  
make sure that the piano tracks were muted on the external tone  
generator.

Of course, this fix was unnecessary on newer Disklaviers, but they  
wanted the same files to be compatible with all Disklaviers.

At this point, in the history of the Disklavier, Yamaha needed to come  
up with a way to make PianoSoft Plus files play correctly on all  
Disklaviers. So, they added a behind-the-scenes feature to the Mark II  
and later: these later instruments do respond to controller 7 data for  
the piano but they uniquely interpret controller 7 = 0 as controller 7  
= 100.

The end result is that you need to edit these files and set controller  
7 = 100 for the piano tracks.

Regards,
PianoBench

www.georgelitterst.com
www.timewarptech.com

On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:32 PM, sjhart110110 wrote:

> Got the pianosoft solo titles to work. Can't figure out the multi
> channel eseq files. I'm getting closer to having a poor man's Mark
> IV! ;)
>
> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "sjhart110110" <sjhart110@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help. With this utility I get the files over to my
> > hard drive, but when I read them with MIDI2PIANOCD (or using the
> > ESEQ2MID routine), all that plays (after converting to audio and
> > moving to my ipod) is the pedals with no piano sound. Like part of
> > the MIDI channels are missing. I also copied some files that are
> > stored in my memory on my control box to diskette. These are
> > pianosoft+ (with instruments) and all I hear are the instruments
> and
> > no piano.... Any other thoughts?
> >
> >
> > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, ISKI1@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Use RootARipper instead of DKVCOPY.
> > > http://www.carolrpt.com/musicsoftware.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > RootARipper
> > >
> > > The nice thing about this copy utility is that it copies files on
> > floppy disks to your hard drive on XP computers. It saves the
> trouble
> > of duplicating a copy-protected disk first, then moving the files
> to
> > a hard drive.
> > >
> > > If they are ESEQ files they will have a .fil extension.
> > >
> > > If not play them with Yampalyer and select convert to midi.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: sjhart110110 <sjhart110@>
> > > To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 5:06 pm
> > > Subject: [disklavier] Re: Getting PianoSoft Midi Files into Audio
> > Format
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I think I'm running into the issue of how to exactly copy these
> > > disks. For example, I have both 720 formatted diskettes and the
> > > pianosoft titles that I "downloaded" from their store (2HD). Even
> > > the one I copied is having problems. I used the DKVCOPY utlity to
> > > copy a downloaded 2HD diskette onto another 2HD diskette.
> However,
> > > most of the files are corrupt and/or won't play, etc. Probably
> > wasn't
> > > designed for this! What is the process to take Pianosoft
> diskettes
> > > and copy it correctly so it can be read by the MID2PianoCD?
> > > Obviously the program can't read them directly because an
> original
> > > diskette does not work (can't be viewed). Frustrating, but I
> > > recognize that these technologies are old and based upon the
> > various
> > > disklaviers over the years. Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "mfontana@" <mfontana@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > sjhart wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Made some progress. If I use the DKVCOPY, I can make a copy
> of
> > > the
> > > > > disk which is then viewable. However, these .FIL files
> (assume
> > > they
> > > > > are ESEQ files?) don't work when I run the ESEQ2MID. I've
> copied
> > > > > them from the diskette into a folder on my hard drive. When I
> > try
> > > > > and convert the files, it states that they are not ESEQ files.
> > > > > However, if I put the new copy in my piano, it plays fine. So,
> > > > > probably need a way to convert these files to midi (and then
> I
> > can
> > > > > convert to audio).
> > > >
> > > > MID2PianoCD supports converting .fil files (ESEQ format)
> directly
> > > to
> > > > encoded audio. You shouldn't need to convert them to MIDI
> format
> > > first.
> > > >
> > > > By the way, on the Advanced settings page, make sure you have
> set
> > > the
> > > > source velocity profile to "Disklavier" so that the note
> > > velocities
> > > > are left as-is.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know if you have any trouble...
> > > >
> > > > Mark Fontana
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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