Disklavier

Tjako,

As I recall, yours is an acoustic instrument--not a digital GranTouch GT. 
Unless you want just a "quick and dirty" wave file, I don't believe you will be
happy with the quality coming from sound cards or sample players.  The best of
them, imo, is Yamaha's GranTouch digital piano and it would not fool an educated
ear.  It does not provide digital output, so its audio output signal must be
recorded.

I believe the only way to make a decent wave file at this time is the old
fashioned way of making an audio recording.  In pursuit of that desire, I have
spent three years learning to record my DC3 Mark II.  I have a DAT recorder and
Neumann TLM-103 microphones.  Not having a studio, I found it quite a fuss to
get everything right.  I have a nice-sized high ceiling room, but had to
eliminate a slap echo between walls by hanging fabric.  To prepare for
recording, I must lay panels over the carpet to liven the room and to reduce the
treble absorption.  Positioning the piano and the mikes took many hours of
experimentation.  I found that the proper voicing of the instrument as well as a
careful tuning was necessary to get a crisp recording.  TV signals were getting
into my recordings through the built-in mike preamps, so I've had to shield the
mikes and amps with a Faraday cage.  Since my piano room is hardly sound-proof,
I must make the recordings (and often re-takes) in the early morning quiet
between jet takeoffs.  I am not in the business of making recordings for others,
nor wish to be, but have made CDs for myself that I am satisfied with.

It seems to be a principle of nature that there are often easy routes to
inferior results, but price for quality gets ever steeper.  Why a selection of
piano sound samples made at many different note velocities cannot be made to
sound like the real thing remains something of a puzzle to me.

Good luck!

Bob
-- 
Robert Welcyng
Anchorage, Alaska

Tjako van Schie wrote:
> 
> I would like to know if it is possible to convert midi files from my
> disklavier to wav. files
> 
> Who knows how to?
> 
> regards,
> Tjako van Schie
> 
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