Hi, Shelley. I guess that I have been involved with this stuff for a long time. I became interested in the Disklavier when it first came out in 1988. My first Disklavier was a DC6 II. I currently own a DC6 IIXG Pro.
I am a classical pianist, and the technology in the Disklavier spoke to me as a way to get involved with modern music technologies through the medium of a fine musical instrument.
I teach, perform, consult for Yamaha, and develop music software. In the latter regard, I have a company called TimeWarp Technologies (www.timewarptech.com) which has 3 software products:
--Home Concert Xtreme
works with Standard MIDI Files, shows music on the screen, follows your playing, turns the pages, musically coordinates the accompaniment tracks with you
--Classroom Maestro
a program for demonstrating the relationship between notes on the keyboard and notes on the musical staff; shows single notes, intervals, chords, scales, hand positions; includes intelligent analysis of what you play
--Internet MIDI
a program that connects MIDI instruments over the Internet for the purpose of giving piano lessons or performing a concert
Of course, the software I develop has been developed with the Disklavier in mind.
I have some familiarity with Finale. Years ago, I co-authored the original documentation for that program.
Regards,
PianoBench
On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Shelley Bacon wrote:
George - I am completely astounded by your knowledge base! I sure have a lot to learn! What do you do for a living, and/or how is it that you have learned so much about all of this? (Yes, there are many others with huge amounts of knowledge, and I am humbled and amazed by you too!)Shelley (definitely a "newbie")
From: George F. Litterst com>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, December 21, 2009 8:22:03 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] pedal recording in "ensemble" piano recording (also sound ?)
Good morning, everyone.Wanda, I have a few suggestions:(1) Recording from the DisklavierIf you use Finale's HyperScribe Tool to record your performance, all of the data that is sent from your Disklavier will be sent on MIDI channel 1 (notes and pedals)--unless you did something to change the MIDI output of your Disklavier.So, forget anything you may have read about older Disklavier files having notes on channels 1 and 2 and pedals on 3. That does not apply here. You'll be recording on channel 1 and for playback, you'll want to set your Disklavier to receive on channel 1.HyperScribe has an option to record continuous data. Be sure that option is turned on.(2) If you record first on your Disklavier and then choose to import the MIDI file into Finale, you'll have an option during import to include pedals.(3) When you choose sounds in Finale for the other instruments, you have a number of choices:--the sounds available in your MIDI output device--Finale's built-in set or sounds--Garritan Personal Orchestra (which now comes with Finale)You'll get the best results with Garritan, particularly if you use Finale's human playback feature assigned to Garritan. But then you'll have the problem of figuring out how to play back the results and hear the piano part on your Disklavier and the other parts played with Garritan.If you play back from Finale and output the piano parts to the Disklavier, the Disklavier will be out of time with the other tracks due to the mechanical delay of the piano. To avoid this problem, you have 2 options:(a) Save as a Type 1 SMF and play the file from the Disklavier. When you do, set your Disklavier's MIDI Out to Ensemble Out so that the ensemble tracks will be played by an external device. Output the accompaniment tracks to your computer. On your computer, set up the Garritan Aria player program with the correct sounds loaded.(b) Play back from FinaleSend all data to your Disklavier. On the Disklavier, set MIDI Output to MIDI Thru. ;On your computer, set up the Garritan Aria player program with the correct sounds loaded.Option B is rather complicated.Regards,GeorgeOn Dec 20, 2009, at 6:23 PM, wandamusic@aol.com wrote:
I have a Mark 111.Recently, I tried my hand at an arrangement where I did horns and strings in Finale, saved as a mid file, then wanted to add piano on channels 1 and 2. Or even just 1.I did it a few times and each time, the pedal data did not record. I tested doing just piano, and it worked fine.I read about the different ways of recording the R-L hand where channel 3 could hold the pedal, but I believe it said it could also be on channel 1.For the life of me I could not get it to work....Has anyone any experience with this?BTW, I tried saving the mid. files both ways, I believe lit was type 0 or 1, and only one seemed to work in the piano, can't remember which it was, but I believe with all tracks combined into one track.Blessings,
Wandap.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?
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