Disklavier

I better get some sleep!  I just wrote a paragraph describing how to make an 
audio recording from a piano performance on a MarkIII system.  The way I 
wrote it, you would think you have to use the Silent System to do this.  Let 
me clarify.

You can set the key data to go out to the audio amplifier as well as the 
midi tone generator. The MarkIII has two amplifiers - one for MIDI and one 
for audio.  This output could also go all through your home stereo system. 
You can do this in Silent Mode if all you want to hear is the piano playing 
quietly; more quietly than if it was just playing the piano strings. You 
would be listening to the tone generated piano sound, not the strings.

Without using the Silent System, you can also send data to the amplifier to 
be recorded by a tape recorder attached to it. You might  also hear the 
tone-generated piano sound as well as the actual piano playing the strings, 
but chances are the strings would drown out the tone generated audio sound.  
You could then take the tape recording into the sound card on your computer 
and make a .wav file, and burn it to an audio CD that will play on your 
stereo.  I helped a piano teacher with a MarkIII make CDs of her students' 
performance to give their parents for Christmas gifts.  The XG piano tone is 
great as it was sampled on a concert grand.

Just one more thing a MarkIII full featured piano can do that a MarkIIXG 
cannot - ever.

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...



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