Disklavier

I was afraid this might be the case. Sure, I could play along with the audio myself and record my performance then add the singing audio to it, but it wouldn't be the same. It seems like it shouldn't be that difficult, if only I could get a good transcribing of the audio where I could differentiate the two parts, piano and singing. I am considering slowing the tempo down so there would be better separation of the notes when converting automatically so I could tell which are which. I would then delete the singing portion leaving only the piano part, bring the tempo back to normal and ad an audio track of her singing to the midi file. Sounds reasonable only I just started learning about this whole process and have little experience. I was hoping someone might have tried this with success already. Anyone try something like this, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks for your input and ideas.  Joe 

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Terry Cutshall <terry.cutshall@...> wrote:
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> 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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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> wrote:
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> > 
> > 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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