I've done a 2-piano arrangement of Chopin's Grande Valse Brilliant in Eb (Op. 18) for a friend who performs 2-piano music on a regular basis and prepared a MIDI file to demo it. However, some versions of Windows Media Player have problems with the pedalling in the 2nd theme (what starts at m. 21 in the score, m. 36/26 seconds in the MIDI file). The problem is that the pedalling is strangely blurred. But the exact same material heard in the 1st piano a few bars later (with the pedallings copied directly from m. 21ff. in the Finale file, i.e., identical data) comes off just fine. And it's only Windows Media Player that has this problem -- the identical file sounds pristine played by other sequencers.
I've cleaned up the file a bit in a sequencer, and it now plays fine on my version of Windows Media Player (as well as all other programs I have that play MIDI files), but the person who had the original problem still gets the blurred pedalling when they play it in WMP. Can anyone listen to it with the sequencer of their choice and tell me if they see anything at mm. 36-38 in the MIDI file that would cause the pedalling to come out blurred? I think it's just some defect in the WMP's MIDI processing (and only in some versions), as I just can't see anything in the file that would lead to this problem (nor could I see any such problems *before* I cleaned up the file by making sure pedal up/down always occurred precisely on the beat). The file is at: http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Midi/ChopinEbWaltzOp18.MID (it's a pretty good MIDI performance, as well, if I do say so myself) -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
