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Re: [disklavier] Re: MIDI Data Error

2015-07-01 by Spencer Chase

if you don't have either a Yamaha, Roland or M-Audio USB midi adapter, don't even bother to experiment until you have one. the cheap Chinese garbage is worthless. you are welcome to send me files to examine for strangeness. i doubt it is the problem but there can be strange events in files that cause problems. the midi spec says that if a device does not know what to do with an event it does not understand that it should do nothing. pretty obvious and i'm sure Yamaha does that but who knows. if there is strange stuff in the file it should behave strangely at the same point in the same file but who knows what odd combination of things might effect this.

i have several versions of a program i call midi cleaner. different versions leave different events and remove the rest.

MIDI 1 to 0 outputs the files to the working folder only. just cut and past when you are done. if you sort by date, all the new files will be together since the program makes new files with new dates/times.

On 7/1/2015 4:10 AM, cmancus1@... [disklavier] wrote:

I thought maybe that was the case, but it doesn’t appear to be consistent that its one file at one particular spot. I need to run a few more tests to see if it happens that way. I know one thing for a fact and that is that the piano only midi files that I downloaded from a competition play perfectly, whereas others seems to have periodic errors. I am going to convert all the files and see what happens. It looks like there is no way to direct the converted files from your program to a different directory, right? It’s a great program and thank you for allowing us to use it.


One other possible error i am trying to trouble shoot is maybe my usb - MIDI cable has a glitch.


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