Yeah I totally agree, some titles are great and others fail to capture the song properly at all.
It's also annoying that you have to buy a entire CD and can't just download 1 song with piano data.... they are still way behind the times with stupid old bloated uncompressed wave files. A 192 or 256 MP3 (or even something efficient) would be good.
Plus, using the Mark 4 internet connection... I am continually frustrated in how much I have to pay for 1 song. Some are hard to tell if they are any good until you buy them (sample is too short). Also if they are 'general midi' it does warn you that the song might be shitty, but they charge pretty much the same price.. The only 'safe' purchases are from 'Sue Downs' but sometimes I feel that they are 'just churned out'.
:) hehe I like constructive winging.
Philip
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 1 March, 2009 6:48:43 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Any Reviews of Yamaha Disklavier Music?
I've purchased various Yamaha Piano Soft and Smart Piano Soft titles. I
have found that the results vary in quality. Are there any reviews of
these titles? Does anyone care to share what they like and what they
don't.
For many of the Yamaha Smart Piano Soft titles, the piano overpowers
the music, mainly because the playback of the CD seems too soft and its
volume is weaker that it should be, even with the speakers and the
audio turned all the way up.
Some Smart Piano soft titles do not have this problem, so perhaps this
is becuase of the recording volume of the original CD.
Even for some of the Piano Solo titles, many of the performances come
across as "too fancy", in my opinion. Sometimes I think the performer
is trying to out-do the original artist --- and sometimes the results
are just too ornate.
Depsite all of that, there are some that I have purchased that I do
like considerably.
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