Disklavier

I don't understand why it doesn't play on the LX correctly if the LX is supposed to support these file types.  I think Mark is probably in the best situation to say why that is the case!

Anyway, it certainly isn't "all choppy" on a Disklavier...And the acoustic/accompaniment balance is set perfectly to play back on a Disklavier in its "reset" volume configuration. 

As for compression...I'm not terribly concerned right now since these were just samples.  If there had been more interest, I was going to produce a large number of these in native formats for all player pianos, arranged as albums to sell for whatever price the market demanded ...but that just doesn't seem to be the case.  

I think I could talk the artist out of the electronic piano sound that he really likes backing the acoustic piano, but if no one wants this music anyway, I get to avoid that delicate conversation. :-)

-Kevin



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From: Spencer_Lists <lists@spencerserolls.com>
To: Kevin Goroway <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 9:05:32 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
Greetings Kevin,

My LX plays other DKV/audio files perfectly. I rarely listen to them
and only tested your file with a crappy amplified computer speaker,
not a good stereo which is in another room. I found the acoustic piano
to be very choppy, going on and off with no real relationship to the
accomp. It might sound better with a higher volume from the accomp.
Why is most of the piano a digital piano on the accomp and only
scattered real piano? I thought the idea of a disklavier was to sound
like a piano? Personally, I would like all the piano to be acoustic. I
just don't understand the reason for the accomp piano.

I think you can get better compression with LZMA compression than with
zip. I was expecting better compression because I compress piano only
files not piano with accomp. Since the accomp and piano alternate in
the WAV file it makes sense as Mark suggests that the compression
would be less.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 5:05:22 PM, you wrote: >
> The files download perfectly... They just aren't formatted for the
> LX.  I'm surprised that they play at all!

> I expected better compression as well...not sure what went wrong there...

> From: Spencer_Lists <lists@spencerseroll s.com>
> To: Kevin <disklavier@yahoogro ups.com>
> Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 12:12:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

> 

> Greetings Kevin,

> Tried playing one of the samples on my Live Performance LX. No
> luck, the piano part is intermittent. 
> Do you know if the server is reliable? Have you downloaded the
> files and tried the downloaded versions?
> I find these "free" services to be a real pain. Did not want to
> sign up for premium service. Also odd that the 
> WAV and zip are nearly the same size. I find that the WAVs for DKV usually compress by a factor of
> about 10. 

> Saturday, January 2, 2010, 5:18:41 PM, you wrote: 

> 
> 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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