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Re: [disklavier] Can we increase our player song variety past Yamaha's offerings?

2011-08-30 by Spencer chase

not possible. what you are asking for is a huge task. using current technology it takes many many manhours of time to convert a single audio recording to a piano file to play on your DKV. producing software to do this automatically would be a massive job and it is unlikely that anyone would find it cost effective to even try. there are programs that offer to "convert MP3 to MIDI" but they basically don't work except for very simple cases and badly at even those.

On 8/30/2011 4:42 AM, theta1870mom wrote:

We just purchased a DGC1ME3 and are trying to figure out if there is a way to get the piano to play a wider variety of popular songs than available via the Yamaha radio and music store downloads. My husband tried just downloading a copy of something onto USB, but when played into the piano it is 'missing' stuff. It only plays the piano that was in the original song and not as if the song was played originally on a piano. My DH wants to know if he can take a regular mp3 audio song he purchased on iTunes or Amazon or a .wav he owns on CD and somehow convert it to play on our piano as it was originally recorded just on a piano? It is not imperative that we get all background parts--just so that piano is playing the entire time thru a song. We have a Dell PC that we would be using and the player is hardwired to my router.
Thanks.
Jean


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