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Good afternoon, everyone.

Bob, individual note editing has not been available on the Disklavier since the Mark II, and the Mark II pre-dates the PRO.

At this point in time, the best editor for PRO data of which I am aware is MidiKit for the Mac (http://www.mixagesoftware.com). MidiKit presents you with a simple event list. Changing a note from one pitch to another is pretty easy. It appears as though MidiKit does nothing to change the order of events that are on the same clock tick. In other words, MidiKit appears to be a direct, MIDI event list editor that will not corrupt the XP data when you open or save the file.

If you have a Mac and want to maintain the integrity of the XP data, I suggest using MidiKit. Of course, if you change a note's pitch, you should change the polyphonic aftertouch message that is associated with that note so that the other controller messages on that clock tick are properly associated with the changed note.

However, if you use MidiKit to change a note's pitch and you ignore the surrounding XP events, I think that you'll only lose the extra resolution for that one note and that the extra resolution for all other notes will remain in tact. I doubt that you'll notice that the dynamic for one note is limited to normal MIDI resolution.

Although you may find MidiKit an excellent solution for changing the pitch of a note, it will be cumbersome or impossible to do more extensive edits on XP data, such as change the tempo of a section of the piece, touch up the timing of a note, edit a crescendo, etc.

I don't know of an XP-compatible solution for Windows.

Regards,

PianoBench

On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Robert Hall eviscent@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

This was very helpful in clarifying some of the issues, although it mainly

reinforced my own perception of the problem.

Regarding your question of the input, I edited the file on a USB flash drive and replayed on the

Disklavier using the flash drive.

I am a pianist/organist who has a Disklavier at my church and I often am recording weekly -

often to do piano/organ duets with myself\ufffd

I used previous models of Disklavier, mostly in the early 90\ufffds and at that time was able to

edit an occasional wrong note right onboard on the Disklavier, without going to an external

editor. Now, it seems like a offensive wrong note in a recording means redoing the whole

thing. Not a huge deal, but annoying. Isn't there anyone else out there who plays the odd wrong

note and has found a way of doing a 5- minute editing job on the DK Pro\ufffd 8 }

Bob

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