Disklavier

No, these audio tracks are made to be played on a Disklavier...not via iTunes, or anything else. iTunes happily plays them because they are in a standard audio format (that the piano also happens to want).

If you played them back on your Disklavier, you would hear the audio tracks just fine, and the high pitched sound on the other channel would be absorbed by the piano.  The piano uses that information to actually *play* the piano keys along with the background accompaniment.


As Carol says, other piano manufacturers have different encoding schemes.  I could also produce sample files for those pianos, but I started here since I *know* what they sound like on my Disklavier (DC3M4t).

Please follow the instructions in my earlier email to play them back on
your piano.  I can see that the files have been downloaded numerous
times, so I'd love to hear any opinions.

Thanks!




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From: Carol Beigel <thecarolb@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 12:10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
 
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@yahoogro ups.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
>
>
>
>
________________________________
 From: Kevin <kgoroway@yahoo. com>
>To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.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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