Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:43 PM, ron8100 wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I have a disklavier mark IV, and I've been unable to play back ONLY  
> the L hand of a piano piece. The song in question is Fur Elise,  
> which was included as one of the sample pianosoft solo songs on the  
> disklavier.
>
> How does one play back ONLY the L hand? When i choose "Left" only,  
> everything plays. When i choose "Right" only, nothing comes out. It  
> would appear that channel 1 contains everything - both L and R  
> hands. I appears that in order to select one hand over the other for  
> playback would require that the L & R be available on separate  
> individual channels...?? What is it that I'm doing wrong?
>
> thnaks,
> ron
>

Ron, you may already have everything that you need, based on replies  
from others. However, I'll mention 2 things:

(1) There is no single split point between left and right hands that  
works for the entire piece. The right hand goes as low as A below  
middle C and the left hand goes as high as the 2nd E above middle C.  
The only way to split the hands into separate tracks satisfactorily is  
to use a sequencer.

When splitting hands in a sequencer, I typically view the data in  
piano roll view, lasso the left-hand notes, cut them, and paste then  
into a new track.

When saving a new MIDI file from the sequencer, I typically choose  
Type 1 in order to keep the tracks distinct. If I choose Type 0, I  
must make sure that each track is assigned to a unique MIDI channel  
from 1-16.

(2) If you want to split the file at an arbitrary split point and live  
with the results, I have a free program for this purpose on the  
TimeWarp website:

http://www.timewarptech.com/Pages/Downloads/freebies.html

Regards,
PianoBench


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