Yamaha Piano Midi Files
Go to and under the Competition History Tab, select MIDI files from any of the previous competitions. Guaranteed you'll get the best MIDI files in the world there!
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Wondering if anyone else is using my similar setup to download/collect these and play them back on a player piano such as a Yamaha Disklavier?
Question is - do you have the kind of MIDI set-up that will reproduce all of the nuances captured in these MIDI files? You have a Yamaha which is a good start, and a Clavinova, also good, the question is whether or not your particular model will reproduce the higher end MIDI specs like release velocity. You can learn more here: EDIT: After reading it myself, I am sure you should download the Enhanced SMFs, the 2nd choice.
I just hope your keyboard supports incremental Sustain pedal data, Release Velocity, and hopefully incremental Soft Pedal data too. The recordings sound much better when this data can be realized.
Re: Where can I find piano only Midi's that don't suck??? 06/21/07 04:08 PM 06/21/07 04:08 PM Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 985. Finally - as I am noticing, if you find files you really like that for whatever reason have a stuck note in them (probably a glitch in the file rendering process on their end), I can teach you how to repair them fairly easily. First let me know if you want to learn, and then I'll tell you where to get what you'll need, namely a MIDI file disassembler, and Line Editor. The file assembler will catch the stuck note when you render it, and then you just have to find the line it tells you has the Note on with no Note off, and plant the Note off message yourself wherever appropriate IYO. Lol - I just realized you could technically even correct whatever wrong notes you hear in the recordings using this process as well! I just heard one or two in the Appassionata Movement I'm listening to right now (along with two instances of stuck notes.
Grrr) - I may well fix all three places! You can really hear some of the technically difficult places with much greater clarity than on a typical CD or mp3 recording, so you're right. You can learn an awful lot from these MIDI files - especially if you are learning the same rep they are playing. But it's all going to be the tough stuff. This is international competition level! Re: Where can I find piano only Midi's that don't suck???
Yamaha Piano Keyboard Midi Files
06/21/07 04:45 PM 06/21/07 04:45 PM Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 314. The real question is how the MIDI file was made. When it is the capturing of a real live performance, as with the e-competition, the quality can be very satisfying. Normally available MIDI files are usually the result of entering the notes of a piece into a notation program or sequencer, and are thus extremely robotic and unmusical. Now a really good question is - does anyone know of anywhere else that real performances by talented performers have been captured in MIDI format *besides* e-competition? I am doing some research in a piano pedagogy lab and these kinds of files are very useful in many ways, but alas, I know of only the e-competition collection.
Re: Where can I find piano only Midi's that don't suck??? 06/22/07 02:21 AM 06/22/07 02:21 AM Joined: May 2007 Posts: 10,856. My P-250 has a balanced connection for the sustain pedal which means it can access sustain pedal messages as either the usual up/down (0/127) but also the gradations in between, which is nice because it picks up half pedaling, flutter pedaling, etc. It also reacts to Key release velocity I think.
I think most higher end keyboard models have the enhanced MIDI spec, but only the Disklaviers have the even more enhanced XP spec - in this case, attack velocity gets a much greater range than 0-127, an LSB is added to the MSB in the same way as Pitch Bend (not usually used in piano playing, lol!) for a much more refined capture of a performance. I think there are other things in the XP format too, but this is what was mentioned on the site. It makes me really want to listen to an XP MIDI file on the Disklavier at school at some point, just to hear the detail! Re: Where can I find piano only Midi's that don't suck???
06/24/07 08:52 AM 06/24/07 08:52 AM Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 42. Great replies, the technical info was interesting.
Yamaha Piano Midi Controller
The sucky midi's that I was refering to are the ones, often of pop tunes, that sound like they were created by a crappy software package. No rythem, no variation, nothing interesting, but their full of strange sounds that annoy the ears. The sites you gave me were great. Gives me some things to listen to and work on. I'd love to see any more that you may have. BTW, if you use firefox, there's an addon called 'downThemAll' that makes it so that you can download 100 separate midi files on the same page (or any other type of file for that matter) in about 3 clicks. I downloaded about 1500 Midi's in about 30 minutes.