Disklavier

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 00:10 +0000, sma3us wrote:


> Is it possible to export the accompaniment track to an MP3 file.  That
> is, the accompaniment without the piano parts.  I'd like to use the
> accompaniment on a non-disklavier piano.


If you're talking about a Pianosoft Plus Audio CD, you can rip the CD
track, then remove the right stereo channel (the one that sounds like a
dial tone; the Disklavier control signal), leaving just the
accompaniment channel (the left stereo channel), then encode that to an
MP3 file.

On a Windows computer, you can use the free software "Exact Audio Copy"
to do all of these things in one easy step by customizing the command
line passed to the external MP3 encoder.   For example, if using the
LAME MP3 encoder, you could pass the additional command line options
"--scale-r 0.00000001 -m m" to mute the right channel and encode the
accompaniment on the left channel as a mono MP3 file.

For some tutorials on how to set up and use Exact Audio Copy in general,
do a Google search for "eac howto".

Mark Fontana