George,
What about having a Zenph Re-Performance channel on Disklavier Radio? Is that not secure enough? That would give me a good reason to subscribe (I don't currently).Thanks,JohnOn Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:15 PM, George Frederick Litterst <PianoBench@...> wrote:Good afternoon, everyone.
Spencer is correct that it is a very difficult undertaking to convert audio recordings to MIDI for playback on a Disklavier. However, this is one of the special technologies that has been developed at Zenph Sound Innovations and which continues to be developed by Zenph.Thus far, Zenph has converted or "re-performed" original audio recordings by Glenn Gould (Goldberg Variations and Bach Inventions), Art Tatum, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Oscar Peterson, George Gershwin, and others. In house, Zenph plays all of this data on the Disklavier Pro. Some of this performance data is available for playback on the LX player piano system. Many of these re-performances have been presented in public (such as at the Newport Music Festival in 2010 and 2011), and many of them have been used to create new audio recordings (www.zenph.com/the-music.html).If Yamaha one day produces a secure way to deliver this content for the Disklavier, it will be made available there as well.Zenph does not have publicly available tools for converting audio to MIDI but continues to develop this technology for in-house use. Although it cannot be used to do the audio-to-MIDI conversion, Zenph's new RePerform MIDI editor offers the same kind of high quality MIDI editing that is used in-house at Zenph.Regards,PianoBench(CCO/CTO at Zenph Sound Innovations)On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Spencer chase wrote: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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Re: [disklavier] Can we increase our player song variety past Yamaha's offerings?
2011-08-30 by George Frederick Litterst
John, thanks for asking about Disklavier Radio and offering your kind remarks about the Zenph re-performances.
Zenph has recently put forth a number of proposals to Yamaha, including the use of its re-performance material on Disklavier Radio. I believe that to be a secure solution. I hope that this can be worked out.
Regards,
PianoBench
On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:47 PM, John Cagle wrote: