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Performer user encounters Disklavier

2004-10-03 by Karl M

Hi all.  I'm  a decent keyboard player with a fairly extensive MIDI 
studio - 88 note controller, rack of MIDI modules including Kurzweil 
and two from E-Mu Systems, a tremendous Class A amp / speaker combo, 
and Mark of the Unicorn Performer 6 running on an 8 year old MAC.

A good friend of mine who has long liked my music just purchased a 
Yamaha Disklavier Mark III.. a gorgeous piano, not even considering 
the amazing electronics hung off it.

At any rate, I have a lot of solo piano pieces recorded in my 
Performer environment, and we're talking about me transferring some 
of the better piano pieces from Performer to floppy for the Yamaha. 
If it sounds as good as I hope it does, I'll drag my CD recorder and 
a couple of mics over there.. instant piano solo album. 

We've been doing the reading, and I know it handles Type 0 and 1 
standard MIDI format (SMF) disks in PC or MAC format.  The thing I'm 
not sure of, is WHICH MAC format.. mine dates from 1996 and is 
running OS 7.something.  No DOS floppy emulation.

I could email the .MID file to my PC and write the floppy there.

Also, I had the habit of ignoring/muting Performer's 'metronome' 
function, just leaving it run / record at 120BPM.. assuming I solve 
the physical floppy format conversion, will the Disklavier have a 
problem playing MIDI files not recorded listening to the 'beat'?

And I assume the piano part should be on Track 1 assigned to MIDI 
channel 1.  I'll trim out the 'patch change' command but leave the 
pedal Continuous Controller (CC64) and Volume (CC7) information in 
the track.  Correct?

thanks!

Karl

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