Disklavier

Any way to get PianoDisc or QRS songs to play when downloaded onto disk or USB?  I haven't checked their libraries to see if it they even better.

Jean

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, JJ Huthwaite <huthwaite@...> wrote:
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> If one can play well, can you add voice to disklavier recordings?
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> On 31 August 2011 10:40, Phil Blah <phil.blah@...> wrote:
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> >  Hi Jean,
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> > 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.
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> > (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
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> > Philip
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> > *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?
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> > 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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