He makes it sound like a combined (Grand Staff) file is next to impossible to split into its separate Bass and Treble Clefs, and that just is not so. It is a good one, but I strongly disagree with the author, in one respect. I am going to give you a link to a YouTube tutorial that shows the above. That way, if you blow something up, you have a backup to make a new copy of. Oh! I should have mentioned at the outset, never do the above procedure(s) on your only copy of a file. By your 4th or 5th file, you are asking yourself what you have forgotten, because what originally took you a half an hour is now only taking you a few minutes. This all may sound a bit daunting, at this stage, but believe me, after you have done it successfully two or three times, it becomes second nature very quickly. At some point in the future, you may want to use your DAW software to substitute higher quality voices, especially if it is a file with fully orchestrated backing tracks, but that is a story for another day. The WK-225 has a GM (General MIDI) voice bank, so any MIDI file that uses GM voices (that is, it is a Standard MIDI File ) will sound OK when played through the WK-225, but these will be lower quality voices than the WK-225's higher quality "native" voices. If you occasionally find a "cross-over" note that belongs in the other clef (Navigate Channel), you can use the DAW's edit mode to move that one note to the correct track/channel. Once again, save your file, and you are finished. Then edit track/channel 2 to remove all note data below Middle C - leaving only the Treble Clef note data. With the edit mode of your DAW software, delete all note data Middle C and above from track/channel 1 - leaving only Bass Clef note data. Once again relocate any extraneous backing track data from tracks/channels 1 and 2, and copy the combined (Grand Staff) data to both tracks/channels 1 and 2. If you are unable to identify separate Bass/Treble Clef channels in your original file, then they are combined, but not to fear. That file will now properly use all of the "Learn" features on any CTK/WK keyboard that offers the "Learn" features, as well as "key lighting" on any LK keyboard. Once this is done, copy the Bass and Treble Clef data into tracks/channels 1 and 2 respectively, clear the data from their original tracks/channels save the file, and you are finished. You need to copy this data into tracks/channels 2 and 1 respectively, but if there is other data (backing track data) in either of those tracks/channels, it will need to be moved (copied) to other available tracks/channels, and then CLEARED from tracks/channels 1 and 2. Now, load your first MIDI file into your DAW software and identify the right (Treble Clef) and left (Bass Clef) data. Trying to continually reset the keyboard Navigate Channels to match the MIDI files gets really frustrating very fast. From this point on, modify the MIDI files with your DAW software to match the keyboard. Set that on the keyboard and leave it - permanently. That makes Channel-1 the left (Bass Clef) channel. Set Channel-2 as the right (Treble Clef) channel. Other than that, you are free to use any of the 16 channels, but based on my many years of experience with this, I am going to make a very strong recommendation for best work-flow. The next lower channel is automatically set as the left (Bass Clef) channel, so you obviously can not set Channel-1 as the right (Treble Clef) channel, as that would leave nowhere for the left (Bass Clef) channel to go. You really only need to set the right (Treble Clef) channel. Setting the Navigate Channels assigns these parts to the channels of your choice on the keyboard. Continue on through the left hand column of Page E-61 for turning the right (Treble Clef) and left (Bass Clef) parts on and off for proper "play-along" operation. OK ! Start by reviewing the information titled " Navigate Channels" in the right hand column of Page E-60 of the WK-225 manual. So, you want to modify downloaded MIDI files to use the WK-225's "Learn" features. It was the only keyboard I have ever had that would allow me to connect my iPad-3's audio output to its Audio In without that dreaded USB ground loop hum. I really liked the WK-7500, but missed the WK-225's clean look and simplicity of operation. I had one for about a year and a half, until I traded it in on a WK-7500. Welcome to the Casio Forums and congratulations on the WK-225.
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