Disklavier

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 18:23 -0500, wandamusic@... wrote:

> p.s. as an side here, Finale 10 has beautiful orchestral horns and
> strings. When they played ont he disklavier they osoudn=ed awful and I
> had to redo everything to strings to be even remotely workable. The
> horns especially were very cheesy sounding in my arrangement.
>  
> Is the way around this linking up a sampler? Or are there better
> sounds hidden somewhere there in the box?

One solution would be to mute the piano part in Finale and export its
playback of just the horns and strings to a WAV file.  Then save a
special version of the MIDI file that contains only the piano part.
Then merge the WAV and MIDI file into a combined WAV file encoded to
Disklavier format and burn that to a CD.  MID2PianoCD can do this
merging:  http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/  The result will be a CD
track that combines the live piano playback of the Disklavier with the
better horns and strings from Finale.

I'm not sure whether Finale can export WAV files in this way; if not,
you could play it in Finale as usual and use a program like Audacity
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net) to record the audio that Finale is
producing.

Mark Fontana