Disklavier

I am sure most of you know the answer to the question I am about to 
ask.  Part of my problem is I am not a computer whiz-however, I can 
get around but am far from an expert.

First of all I have a Piano Disc 128 Plus Silent Drive System 
installed in a late 1800's.
My question is how do I convert Midi 1 to Midi O, which is the only 
Midi the Piano Disc system plays.  I have downloaded some of piano 
music on the member site but have been unable to play much of it on 
my piano.

I have already downloaded the utility suggested to convert the Midi 1 
to O, but can't open it.

I would appreciate any simple instructions you might provide.

Thanks for you help.

Gary Gerstner

I I tried openining a MIDI 1 file in a windows program 
called "Cakewalk Pro" and saving it as a MIDI 0, using the SaveAs 
menu. That seemed to work OK. Unfortunately, Cakewalk's a bit pricey 
and may be overkill for your application.

You'll probably need to get a MIDI Sequencer program of some sort. 
There are several low cost ones, like PG Music's $29 "Power Tracks" 
(see www.pgmusic.com ) that can probably do this conversion, too. 
And it's handy to have sequencer software in case you want to edit 
MIDI files. I typically make quite a few changes--remapping 
instruments, scaling velocities--in files I download from MIDI sites.

--- In disklavier@y..., "gfgerstner" <GFGERSTNER@a...> wrote:
> I am sure most of you know the answer to the question I am about 
to 
> ask.  Part of my problem is I am not a computer whiz-however, I 
can 
> get around but am far from an expert.
> 
> First of all I have a Piano Disc 128 Plus Silent Drive System 
> installed in a late 1800's.
> My question is how do I convert Midi 1 to Midi O, which is the 
only 
> Midi the Piano Disc system plays.

There should be a convert program on the PianoDisc website that converts 
MIDI1 to MIDI0 put out by Roland.  If you cannot find the convert program, 
privately email me and I will send it to you.

Carol Beigel

>From: "gfgerstner" <GFGERSTNER@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Piano Disc Convervsion
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:37:17 -0000
>
>I am sure most of you know the answer to the question I am about to
>ask.  Part of my problem is I am not a computer whiz-however, I can
>get around but am far from an expert.
>
>First of all I have a Piano Disc 128 Plus Silent Drive System
>installed in a late 1800's.
>My question is how do I convert Midi 1 to Midi O, which is the only
>Midi the Piano Disc system plays.  I have downloaded some of piano
>music on the member site but have been unable to play much of it on
>my piano.
>
>I have already downloaded the utility suggested to convert the Midi 1
>to O, but can't open it.
>
>I would appreciate any simple instructions you might provide.
>
>Thanks for you help.
>
>Gary Gerstner
>


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You could try the MIDI utilities on Günter Nagler's web site.

http://www2.iicm.edu/Cpub

Look for midi1to0.zip about half-way down under "Free MIDI programs".  If
you know how to unzip the zip file then you should not have any problem
reading the plain-text doc file that describes how to use it.  The version
I have has the following "usage" description.

usage: midi1to0 [-quiet] [-exact] srcfile.mid dstfile.mid
-quiet  be quiet, don't tell percentage
-exact  solve merging tracks with conflicting channel by
        refreshing all track parameters before playing notes
midi1to0 merges channels into one track
This program only converts format 1 midi files.

Of course, this program should be run in a "DOS" command prompt window.

Jack







"gfgerstner" <GFGERSTNER@...> on 12/17/2001 05:37:17 PM

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I am sure most of you know the answer to the question I am about to
ask.  Part of my problem is I am not a computer whiz-however, I can
get around but am far from an expert.

First of all I have a Piano Disc 128 Plus Silent Drive System
installed in a late 1800's.
My question is how do I convert Midi 1 to Midi O, which is the only
Midi the Piano Disc system plays.  I have downloaded some of piano
music on the member site but have been unable to play much of it on
my piano.

I have already downloaded the utility suggested to convert the Midi 1
to O, but can't open it.

I would appreciate any simple instructions you might provide.

Thanks for you help.

Gary Gerstner



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