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Re: [disklavier] Re: audio recordings of piano music

2005-06-08 by Adrian Thomas

When listening to the electronic piano voice, make sure you're not listening to 
the XG voice. The AWM sample should be much better.

Adrian Thomas
Milton Keynes
UK

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:55 , rwberry99 <rwberry@...> sent:

>--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Thomas  wrote:
>> If you can use a Disklavier with silent function (esp Mk III/IV),
>the Piano voice 
>> used in Silent Mode is a high quality sample of a Yamaha Concert
>Grand, so you 
>> could just take the audio outputs from the Disklavier into whatever
>you use to 
>> record and still record the sound of a Yamaha Grand Piano.
>
>I must be doing something wrong.  When I put my DC3A in silent mode,
>the sound from the piano sounds terrible to me.  I have 15-year-old
>synths (a Kawai K1 and a Roland MT32) that have better piano sounds.
>
>On the whole, I've been *very* underwhelmed with the quality of the
>synthesizer on my piano.  I bought some Pianosoft titles that remind
>me of the old 8-bit ad-lib cards I had in my PC back in the 80's. 
>(The Nat King Cole collection -- which is a Pianosoft + XG title is
>particularly bad.)
>
>Maybe I'm chosing the wrong patches.
>
>I absolutely love the Smart Pianosoft stuff since you have a great
>accoustic piano playing along with a recording.
>
>Any pointers out there?
>
>-Bob
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