Disklavier

With these CDs, the MIDI is on one track and the audio is on the other.  I think this is how the companies got around the copyright - one company put the audio on the Left channel and the MIDI data on the R, and the other company switched tracks.

iTunes does not play MIDI files.  The hum you hear is the MIDI data. These are not normal audio CDs.  If you wanted them to be, then you would need to use the proper codecs (41000Hz and 16bit).  The MIDI files would need to be run through virtual instruments to make them audio tracks, and the entire CD would need to be mastered - IF you wanted to produce an audio CD.

OR, all the files on the CD could be MIDI files with the accompaniment being MIDI files played through a tone generator.

If you really wanted to make MIDI plus audio CDs for the Disklavier, you may need to switch the L and R tracks witht he audio and MIDI.

Carol Beigel



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurel Lapin 
  To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?





  Hi Kevin,
  I downloaded "Ain't Misbehavin'" and my computer opened the file in iTunes (I am running Windows XP). When iTunes played the file, there was a high pitched 'ting' half way between a ride cymbal and an electronic beep. Any ideas?
  Phil in Oak Park, CA




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  From: Kevin <kgoroway@...>
  To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Sat, January 2, 2010 5:18:41 PM
  Subject: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

    
  I'm trying to gauge interest in some "pianosoft+audio- like" jazz improv songs.

  These would work on any disklavier that can play those CD audio+Midi formats. I think that means some (all?) Mark IIIs and all MarkIVs. Maybe others?

  The "+audio" is basically jazz accompaniment. So, think upright bass, and a drum kit.

  All of these songs are played by a real live musician, with no editing, and no planning ahead...it's basically real jazz improv played from lead sheets. I think that it is quite a bit better than the stuff that you generally run across.

  Anyway, I've put together 5 samples of these for anyone who is interested to download. I'd love to hear any and all feedback. The files are zipped, and in the zips are WAV files. To play these on a MarkIV, you only need to get them into your piano's FromToPC folder. On a Mark III, you'd need to either burn the WAVs as an audio CD, or play them back on a computer plugged into the correct jacks on the piano.

  This is a link to the "folder" where each of the files can be downloaded, or all can be downloaded at once.

  http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=354a9ad4dadcd31c4d287c5461e4af2212241d17b18db8d24eb74d8a6cde9cae

  Thanks in advance for any and all feedback.

  -Kevin






  
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