So, I’ve been doing some testing and learning about the midi implementation that the Pyramid uses and I’ve just recently come across a limitation that is perfectly acceptable and also gives me an idea on what the boundaries of the note count are in the Pyramid.
The first piece I created a project for was Tchaikovsky’s Reaper. Added a swing plugin to mellow out the velocities and it sounds lovely.
I then created a project for Debussy’s Claire De Lune. Sounds lovely.
Then I attempted to create a project for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue… the bar count in Pyramid (384) limits me from doing it in 1 sequence and rushing in to the weeds to try to get both parts of the original midi in to one project with different sequences and patterns is beyond the scope of the experiment…
I did learn a great deal about how to get the Pyramid to load midi right off the bat though… Using Reaper…
If there is a collection of midi tracks beyond left and right hand for piano… all you need to do is delete the empty midi tracks and files; Export merged Midi type 0, reimport the exported file and then export that midi file as type 1.
On the Pyramid create an empty project with the bpm of the initial midi file and on track 1 extend the track length to the length of the midi in the track… This can be done before or after putting the “track01.mid” file that was exported in to the project folder…
Eventually I’m hoping to expand what I’ve done in to a “player piano” type EP.
I am hoping to eventually find a suitable Gershwin song to include because as far as I am aware Gershwin is one of the few composers there is actual diskclavier transcriptions from his own playing… In other words… He’s one of the few composers in this day whose playing we can actually experience with our current technology.