Disklavier

Someone inquired a while back about converting MIDI generated files from 
their Disklavier to wave files so they could put them on CD.  I was cruising 
the www.sharewaremusicmachine.com site (click on Notation) and found 3 
interesting programs that might interest this list.

TiMidity++ v2.10.2 is a MIDI to WAVE converter and player that uses Gravis 
Ultrasound-compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from 
General MIDI files.  This program is freeware.

AmazingMIDI 1.60 transcribes WAV to MIDI. (REad the text file to make sure 
your .wav are sampled correctly)  Let's you save a 30-second MIDI file using 
the demo, but the full version only costs $29.

Akoff Music Composer 2.0 - is music recognition software which performs WAV 
to MIDI conversion on polyphonic music.  Full version costs $29.

None of this software works perfectly without editing, so learning how to 
edit scores would be most useful.  I understand the full version of Cakewalk 
ScoreWriter on costs $39 these days, but make sure the soundcard on your 
computer is at least 32-bit. (16-bit soundcards will crash your computer 
using ScoreWriter!)

Carol Beigel



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