Disklavier

I'm pretty certain Sean was not asking how to pirate an existing PianoSoft
recording, but rather how to take MIDI data and an audio recording and
combine them to make his own CD that will play back on the system.

It would be pretty simple to make a software application to encode a
special stereo WAV file in the appropriate format, which would then be
burned to an audio CD, *if* we had some documentation on how the MIDI data
is encoded into the second channel of the CD.  It might be possible to
reverse-engineer it, or maybe someone with the right contacts at Yamaha
could get this information.


Mark.


On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Robert E. Welcyng wrote:

> Be aware that PianoSoft performances are copyright.  You are limited legally to
> what you can do with such a recording.  If Yamaha gives you permission to copy
> by recording, let us know!
> 
> One way to go about making such a recording is to set up microphones to capture
> your piano sound and use a mixer to combine the output of the synthesized sound
> with that captured by the microphones.  The output of the mixer can be directed
> to your computer's sound card.  Using any number of possible recording
> programs--Sound Forge or Cool Edit, for example--record to a Wave file.  You may
> then burn a CD from the Wave files using Sound Forge or Easy CD Creator
> software.  The mechanics of such a project are simple.  The devil is in the
> details--recording in a studio-like environment, placing the mikes effectively,
> adjusting the mixer for good balance, etc.
> 
> Good luck!
>
> 
> macaw22@... wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to make a pianosoft plus Audio CD? Thanks.
> > -sean