Disklavier

Carol, George, Steven, Spencer, & Kevin,

Thanks very much for all your help and suggestions regarding L vs. R hand playback.  It's all clear to me now.  

George, I like your manual splicing technique.  Which software do you use for that?  Because hand positions can easily overlap and cross any pre-designated split point, i'd prefer not use a preset split point to split L vs. R, but I can see how that could be useful, depending on the particular situation.

Carol, you're right.  As you mentioned, the piece needs to be originally recorded on separate tracks, or post processed after the fact with software, like George described above.  You have nice set of utilities on your website.  Does any one of them read a protected Yamaha floppy that's used for playback with CD sync?  When i try to read that floppy, so that i can back it up to my hard drive, I get a drive read error & the PC thinks the floppy is not formatted and asks me if I want to format it.

Steve, I also have a Clavinva but didn't know that it came with the midi files of the book  "Worlds Greatest 50 Songs".  I have that book, but i don't believe i have the midi files.  I would gladly appreciete that - I'd love for u to a copy of that to me so i can try it out on the clavinova.  It'll probably work on the disklavier, too i bet.

Thanks,
ron




--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "George F. Litterst" <PianoBench@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> 
> www.georgelitterst.com
> www.timewarptech.com
>