Disklavier

Hi Jean,

As the other guys said, the simple answer is no. The piano runs of strict maths, for example, Play this note for x amount of time, this hard. Now play this note for x amount of time this hard... etc etc actually the best example would be an old pianola, it's strictly shows if the note is to be played or not.. so if you connected a 'record player' to a pianola it would play a jumbly big mess..perhaps with the odd accurate note in the noise. So, It does not know if the singer or guitar or pop/click noise is a specific note or not. If it's a pure piano recording then it's actually more possible, but still murky and messy, I have personally used lots of different programs to convert piano solo mp3's to midi and they have been pretty horrible, you then have to spend hours using a midi editor to edit the mess....

However! - With getting actual quality proper Disklaver friendly, piano beautiful pop songs, I have been saying this for years now, the Yamaha pop songs are crap. C R A P. They sound like mobile phone themes or the piano is heatless and robotic, plus they have never bothered to have 'modern pop songs' or covers with the original singer or a good cover singer. (using the piano disk with audio). The only ones are old daggy pop songs like Bette Midler that someone at yamaha just played OVER the original recordings.. pretty lame really. Same as those floating around on ebay. (actually, I suggest have a look on ebay, or older songs 'pop' songs (more like 1960's and less you can try webonlypiano.com)

So if anyone is out there who can play a pop songs 'nice' on the piano and can tweak the tempos plus use some nice chords, sorta remaster and if needed add beat on the synth that would be good. Or take it futher, have a good singer do the covers... use REAL instruments etc etc. They would have heaps of sales overnight. Don't anyone lecture me about 'licences'; and crap, Yamaha already have permission now to make the songs they just don't try very hard. Also, If someone did these privatley I would pay as much as 10 bucks a song seriously. They could sell their songs on their website or ebay.

(message me privatley if you can read music really well and do 'nice' pop songs lol)

Just to rattle on more, when Yamaha released a few more Michael Jackson songs (after his death etc) I was so dissapointed in the rubbish, the piano part was like 1 or 2 keys at once plus horrible cheesy synth trying to fill in the 'voice'... come on. Honestly a 49k piano sounding like a big mobile phone.

So pop is out of the window, its just classical music, movie music, or jazz.

Cya

Philip

From: theta1870mom <jauro@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 9:42 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Can we increase our player song variety past Yamaha's offerings?

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