Disklavier

I hate being a wet blanket, but good luck to anyone who expects much of these. 
My advice: Try the free ones--you may find they're worth every penny you've
spent.  Before paying the low, low price of $29, talk to  someone who has really
used it and found satisfaction.  (I'm not speaking of some helpful friend who
has found it on the WWW, has never worked with it, and recommends it to you.)

I will say that, yes, they will import a wave file, and, yes, they will export a
MIDI file, but I leave it up to you to decide to what degree beyond random the
wave and midi files correlate.  (One of the programs mentioned provides some
"knobs" for you to set thresholds and note ranges.  If you're experiencing poor
results, obviously you have not set the parameters to optimum.)

Happy dreams!

Carol Beigel wrote:
> 
> 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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Robert Welcyng
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