Disklavier

George and Mark,
 
Many thanks for these remarks, I will print out this digest as there is so  
much here.
 
My point of making this recording was as a gift for one of my students who  
has a disklavier.... their house had burned down a year ago and they just  
finally replaced the disklavier, but of course lost all their files..
 
On impulse I decided to make an arrangement of Silent Night, and as often  
happens, my imagination works full speed, while the reality lags behind.
 
If the sounds in the DK had been tolerable I'd have just expected to record 
 a midi file and popped that on a floppy.
 
But once I learned the sounds were not cutting it - well that changes  
things, so to complete this project for the future, I like the idea of burning a 
 CD of the Garritan instruments which sound pretty amazing.
 
And the problem I still need to solve is why cannot I record a piano part  
along with the midi of other instruments that includes the pedal?
 
This was making me nuts, I did it over and over trying to vary how I  did 
it hoping i'd hit on what would work. When I find out,I will probably see if  
I have what I need to make a CD to go wth it, where I only pout the 
instruments  on the CD, allowing live playing of piano.  

Blessings,  

Wanda

 
p.s. One thing I did, having had to work with the manuals - I didn't  like 
the 2 manuals with 2/3rds of the pages in foreign languages, so I took them  
to Office Max and had the backs chopped off then spiral bound both parts of 
the  manual into one, removing all unnecessary pages. It is now much 
smaller and  more convenient, with the spiral binding.