MIDI Pedaling and Disklavier
By Bob Fitterman
In MMD 970307, George Bogatko asked about playing a MIDI file on a Disklavier. George, I downloaded the file and tried it. The pedaling information you have included in the file caused some problems. The details follow.
I have an MX100B (it supports partial pedaling information). I played the file from a sequencer. As expected, Yamaha interprets a MIDI pedal commands as an "off" or "on" state, failing to recognize intermediate values. Any level of pedal information other than none, results in full pedaling.
I edited the file to remove the partial pedaling, but leaving in the full pedaling where you specified. It worked fine, but I know it isn't what you wanted the performance to be.
It is possible that later Disklaviers are smarter about this stuff. In their own proprietary encoding, partial pedaling is supported on all but one of the Disklavier models, I believe.
Bob Fitterman
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(Message sent Wed 12 Mar 1997, 16:21:26 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.) |
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