Disklavier

Hello Everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has had this little bug or something with their Mark4. 
I have a playlist with a mix of about 60 songs, they all play fine but about mid 
way I suppose, a song will play and it will start with the proper piano, it 
might play a few notes then it stops and plays it on the Synth piano or it just 
starts with the Synth. It can do it on a stable songs for example "Sue 
Downs/Yamaha song" that never gives me trouble normally, but it might even be 
any other midi song. The next song might be fine but the one after then plays 
back on the Synth.

On the PDA I can easily click next a few times, the Channels 1 and 2 are # or 
they might even be forced from me before to 01, if I just toggle it from # to 01 
it then starts to play on the piano, but next time it might not.. or it can be 
on 01 already and I have to toggle to # then back to 01.

So my only 'theory' is some weird residual midi data is hanging around from 
another song. So I need some sort of soft reset midi file, similar to the Panic 
Button on Cakewalk (rather than a whole shut down of the piano).

Any one else have this problem or have any ideas?

Thanks for your time,

Philip

It sounds like you might have some stray patch (instrument definitions) 
somewhere in the files? Once sent to the piano, these will stay active 
until another patch is sent for the same channel. On the following page, 
you can find a program called "listmidievents to log" or something like 
that. You can look at all the events in the file and see if there are 
patches. Best to run the program without displaying note or pedal data 
to make it easier to see things like patches etc.
http://www.spencerserolls.com/Files4Download.html

On 1/21/2011 2:55 PM, Phil Blah wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has had this little bug or something with 
> their Mark4.
> I have a playlist with a mix of about 60 songs, they all play fine but 
> about mid
> way I suppose, a song will play and it will start with the proper 
> piano, it
> might play a few notes then it stops and plays it on the Synth piano 
> or it just
> starts with the Synth. It can do it on a stable songs for example "Sue
> Downs/Yamaha song" that never gives me trouble normally, but it might 
> even be
> any other midi song. The next song might be fine but the one after 
> then plays
> back on the Synth.
>
> On the PDA I can easily click next a few times, the Channels 1 and 2 
> are # or
> they might even be forced from me before to 01, if I just toggle it 
> from # to 01
> it then starts to play on the piano, but next time it might not.. or 
> it can be
> on 01 already and I have to toggle to # then back to 01.
>
> So my only 'theory' is some weird residual midi data is hanging around 
> from
> another song. So I need some sort of soft reset midi file, similar to 
> the Panic
> Button on Cakewalk (rather than a whole shut down of the piano).
>
> Any one else have this problem or have any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Philip
>
> 

-- 
Best regards, Spencer Chase
67550-Bell Springs Rd.
Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only.
Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only.
Spencer@...
http://www.spencerserolls.com
(707) 984-8356
(425) 791-0309

Hello Spencer,

Thanks for your reply, I am also getting another strange thing the Sustain pedal 
just stopped working but the left pedal still plays, once I restarted the piano 
all runs again. So I suspect that it's a stray patch as you said, is there a way 
to 'rest all' between songs or do you have or know of a midi file that just 
resets everything?

This is important to me because I am not just playing a few songs here and there 
at home, the piano is in my restaurant and I have a huge playlist that keeps 
playing, most songs are ones we purchased from Yamaha so you would expect them 
to be clean and tidy but there are other random midis.

Also, has anyone noticed that if you play an normal audio file (wav) with or 
with out piano data if you have the pitch adjust to +1 the volume wavers around 
you can hear this from a distance really clear plus it has some sort of poor 
quality compression whirl, but if you take off the pitch adjust, to its default 
0 you can hear the difference immediately. Obviously I use pitch adjust because 
all pianos are always going to be a few cents +/- and I like to have it 
perfectly matched.

Cheers,

Philip





________________________________

From: Spencer chase <lists@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 22 January, 2011 10:08:43 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Mark4 Jumping to Synth after a while

  
It sounds like you might have some stray patch (instrument     definitions) 
somewhere in the files? Once sent to the piano, these     will stay active until 
another patch is sent for the same channel.     On the following page, you can 
find a program called "listmidievents     to log" or something like that. You 
can look at all the events in     the file and see if there are patches. Best to 
run the program     without displaying note or pedal data to make it easier to 
see     things like patches etc.
http://www.spencerserolls.com/Files4Download.html

On 1/21/2011 2:55 PM, Phil Blah wrote: 
  
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Just wondering if anyone has had this little bug or               something with 
>their Mark4. 
>
>I have a playlist with a mix of about 60 songs, they all               play fine 
>but about mid 
>
>way I suppose, a song will play and it will start with the               proper 
>piano, it 
>
>might play a few notes then it stops and plays it on the Synth piano or it just 

>starts with the Synth. It can do it on a stable songs for               example 
>"Sue 
>
>Downs/Yamaha song" that never gives me trouble normally,               but it 
>might even be 
>
>any other midi song. The next song might be fine but the               one after 
>then plays 
>
>back on the Synth.
>
>On the PDA I can easily click next a few times, the               Channels 1 and 
>2 are # or 
>
>they might even be forced from me before to 01, if I just               toggle 
>it from # to 01 
>
>it then starts to play on the piano, but next time it               might not.. 
>or it can be 
>
>on 01 already and I have to toggle to # then back to 01.
>
>So my only 'theory' is some weird residual midi data is               hanging 
>around from 
>
>another song. So I need some sort of soft reset midi file,               similar 
>to the Panic 
>
>Button on Cakewalk (rather than a whole shut down of the               piano).
>
>Any one else have this problem or have any ideas?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Philip
>
>

-- 
Best regards, Spencer Chase
67550-Bell Springs Rd.
Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only.
Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only.
Spencer@... http://www.spencerserolls.com (707) 984-8356  (425) 
791-0309