Quantize Conductor Track Disklavier
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2025 8:12 pm
I'm helping a studio calibrate it's Yamaha C7 / Disklavier. The software in the Disklavier is apparently 'fly-wheeling' incoming data, and it doesn't like sudden tempo changes, like tempo curves.
Is there still no way to thin or quantize tempo and other Conductor track info? That would solve a problem we're having, I hope - I pray - I'm pretty sure...
fyi, that's a Yamaha 7 foot grand piano that's controlled by MIDI. It has a built-in disk fed midifile player that apparently needs to be in the loop between external MIDI input and the solenoids that make the key hammers and pedals move.
Here's a pro tip if anyone is using such a machine and are getting thunderous pedal sound: instead of cc#64 values being Zero or 127, nothing in between - you can subtly slow that pedal down by putting the MIDI window in Lines mode and creating pedal slopes like these in this screenshot.
Is there still no way to thin or quantize tempo and other Conductor track info? That would solve a problem we're having, I hope - I pray - I'm pretty sure...
fyi, that's a Yamaha 7 foot grand piano that's controlled by MIDI. It has a built-in disk fed midifile player that apparently needs to be in the loop between external MIDI input and the solenoids that make the key hammers and pedals move.
Here's a pro tip if anyone is using such a machine and are getting thunderous pedal sound: instead of cc#64 values being Zero or 127, nothing in between - you can subtly slow that pedal down by putting the MIDI window in Lines mode and creating pedal slopes like these in this screenshot.