Disklavier

Mark, after re-reading Sean's question, I agree with you . . . Sean would like
to make his own "Yamaha Pianosoft Plus Audio CD" that could be played on the
Mark III.  

Can the CDs be backed-up by programs such as "Easy CD Creator - CD Copier" does
anyone know?  (Maybe no one would care to comment publicly.)

One would think that the sales of Mark IIIs would zoom if Yamaha would promote
and license their process to good quality third party producers--but then, maybe
Yamaha wants it all for themselves.  (Imagine how far the IBM PC would have
gone, if only IBM were able to write and market software for it.)

Using Cakewalk's SONIC, one should be able to play stereo audio tracks and
simultaneously record MIDI (to SONIC) from a Disklavier keyboard.  For playback,
one would need to delay (by offsetting 250 msec) the audio.  This could be done
with only a Mark II.  I realize that is hardly what Sean is after, but it's
another way to skin the cat.

"Mark A. Fontana" wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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Robert Welcyng
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