Home Concert: 

Situation: Please explain how to get both clefs (treble and bass) of a midi file to show on screen? I'm getting just the treble or bass for some files.

Solution:

• From the Home Concert top menu bar—choose: <Settings>
• Then choose <Following>, this brings up a new dialog box
• Go to the section that says Follow Tracks and Display notation for: One or Two tracks.
• Choose Display notation for: Two Tracks
• The next part is sometimes tricky—you need to select from available instruments/tracks the two instruments/tracks that match the notation of the method book. Sometimes the tracks are not clearly labeled Piano RH and Piano LH—so you’ll need to determine which tracks are LH and RH. The good news is that a given method book publisher will use the same track layout for most of their MIDI songs/files. Most publishers will use either the 1st and 2nd tracks for bass —or the 1st and 4th tracks (in order down on the list) for the bass clef part and for the treble clef part. Try different choices and see which matches by making your choice and clicking the <OK> box . Note (Home Concert automatically assigns parts to bass or treble clef based upon the range of notes in the track—so it won’t matter which track/instrument you pick for One or Two).
• Once you’ve found the proper settings—exiting the song or program will save these display changes back to the Home Concert file (assuming it’s on your hard drive or a write-enabled disk). Voila—you only have to do this once per song if you’re setup up properly!

Using any MIDI file in Home Concert:
Users will notice that a MIDI file with a track that spans the bass and treble clefs will not be split for display by Home Concert since it’s designed to make use of the popular split-track format files. You can prepare ANY midi file for use in Home Concert on the ePiano by creating a split track midi file using the Cakewalk Home Studio software included in the Create Menu.

The basic procedure is create a new project in Cakewalk using the HOME CONCERT template included with the ePiano. Select all the notes below middle C in the piano track STAFF VIEW and copy them and then paste them into a new MIDI track assigned to a different MIDI channel (ie. channel 2). Then go back to the original track and delete these same notes—since they’re now duplicated on the new track. Save as a MIDI type 1 file and open in Home Concert. Test results and tweak as necessary.

Cakewalk has a neat feature in the <EDIT>, <SELECT> menu that let’s you select notes by a Filter. You can use this feature to select all notes above (or below) Middle C (C5) and then cut them from the <EDIT> Menu , and then paste them into a new track as per above. Make sure your newly pasted tracked starts at the exact same place as the track you cut it from our the hands will be out of sync.

In Home Concert—you then use the <Settings> Menu and the <Following> and <Notation> choices to fine tune your arrangement in Home Concert. With a little bit of practice—you can created an unlimited Home Concert repertoire library using commonly available MIDI files, since Home Concert remembers the settings and adjustments you make to the MIDI file.

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