Disklavier

Deep pockets indeed, they quoted me $1.00 per note!
Since Sony (Glen Gould) has deep pockets it makes since for them.

Terry

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On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> wrote:

> 
> Unfortunately, converting the sound of a performance (WAV) to the
> instructions describing how to produce that performance (MIDI) is a very
> difficult task, and there is no software currently available that can do
> the job in a fully-automatic way and produce results that sound good.
> Your recordings are especially problematic since they have singing over
> the piano, and that is bound to confuse most tools.
> 
> Zenph Studios (http://www.zenph.com) has been producing MIDI files from
> the great piano recordings of Art Tatum, Glenn Gould et al. using a
> proprietary process that likely involves using software tools to do the
> initial analysis, producing a rough musical template which is then
> iteratively refined by skilled musicians who constantly compare the
> reconstruction with the original recording. This is very time-consuming
> but currently the only way to achieve accurate-sounding results.
> 
> If you have deep pockets, you might be able to hire Zenph to work on
> your private recordings. The only other solution yielding worthwhile
> results would be to have a pianist record hand-played MIDI files for
> your Disklavier that sound sufficiently like your mother's playing.
> 
> Mark Fontana
> 
> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 05:07 +0000, joegugs2 wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to convert songs of my deceased mother playing the piano
> > and singing from 1975 into a midi song file that will play on my
> > Disklavier e3 piano. I digitized her songs from cassette tapes
> > into .wav and .mp3 song files. AmazingMidi and Intelliscore have
> > produced unusable midi files that are not even close to the original.
> > Any suggestions would be most appreciated as it is my dream to have my
> > mom playing my piano for me again. Joe 
> 
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