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DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

2005-02-28 by jane561711

Hi Everyone

I wonder if any of you can help me. Here's what I want to do. - I 
want to be able to record my piano exam pieces on my MarkIII DKV to 
floppy disc. Then put the disc in my computer and convert the files 
to mp3 and download them to my player. Unfortunately my player does 
not allow me to download midi files to it. The first part of this 
poses no problem, but converting midi to mp3 does. I have Cakewalk 
Home Studio on my PC. If anyone could throw any light on this I 
would be most grateful.

Jane

Re: [disklavier] DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

2005-02-28 by Jerry Dutcher

Jane,

There may be a software package capable of performing your desired operation in one step - if so I'd love to hear about it. Lacking the elegant solution, I make MP3 recordings of my MIDI files using a brute force approach of "playing" the files through my sound system and simultaneously "recording" the resulting signal via Line In recording.

First check to see that your sound card has a "Line In" connector -- if not you'll need to replace it with one that does. Second, you need software that can record a Line In signal, hopefully directly to MP3 format. (I use the Sound Recorder program from PolderbitS for this step, although there are many programs available with this capability.) Once you've got the connection and software set up, you simply need to start the Line In recorder and play your files in Cakewalk. When finished, stop the recorder and save the file as .mp3. Voila!

As I said, it's not elegant but it works.

Jerry

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From: jane561711

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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:59 AM

Subject: [disklavier] DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

Hi Everyone

I wonder if any of you can help me. Here's what I want to do. - I
want to be able to record my piano exam pieces on my MarkIII DKV to
floppy disc. Then put the disc in my computer and convert the files
to mp3 and download them to my player. Unfortunately my player does
not allow me to download midi files to it. The first part of this
poses no problem, but converting midi to mp3 does. I have Cakewalk
Home Studio on my PC. If anyone could throw any light on this I
would be most grateful.

Jane

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RE: [disklavier] DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

2005-03-01 by Jorge Fernandez (Personal)

Jane, there are many ways to do this, a simple procedure would be:

1 Play the MID file with your standard media player.

2 At the same time record it with Cakewalk Home Edition you have. (No need to use any cables or mics)

3 Save the audio resulting track to a WAV file.

To convert the WAV to MP3 there are many options, WINAMP, MusicMatch JukeBox, even Windows Media Player but with an extra ($) plug-in.

The quality of the recording will be (mainly) the quality of your sound card; Synthesizer and recording specs

Saludos

Jorge Fernández

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De: Jerry Dutcher [mailto:gldutcher@...]
Enviado el: Lunes, 28 de Febrero de 2005 09:13
Para: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Asunto: Re: [disklavier] DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

Jane,

There may be a software package capable of performing your desired operation in one step - if so I'd love to hear about it. Lacking the elegant solution, I make MP3 recordings of my MIDI files using a brute force approach of "playing" the files through my sound system and simultaneously "recording" the resulting signal via Line In recording.

First check to see that your sound card has a "Line In" connector -- if not you'll need to replace it with one that does. Second, you need software that can record a Line In signal, hopefully directly to MP3 format. (I use the Sound Recorder program from PolderbitS for this step, although there are many programs available with this capability.) Once you've got the connection and software set up, you simply need to start the Line In recorder and play your files in Cakewalk. When finished, stop the recorder and save the file as .mp3. Voila!

As I said, it's not elegant but it works.

Jerry

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----- Original Message -----

From: jane561711

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:59 AM

Subject: [disklavier] DU1A MarkIII - MP3 player

Hi Everyone

I wonder if any of you can help me. Here's what I want to do. - I
want to be able to record my piano exam pieces on my MarkIII DKV to
floppy disc. Then put the disc in my computer and convert the files
to mp3 and download them to my player. Unfortunately my player does
not allow me to download midi files to it. The first part of this
poses no problem, but converting midi to mp3 does. I have Cakewalk
Home Studio on my PC. If anyone could throw any light on this I
would be most grateful.

Jane

To Post a message to the group, send it to: disklavier@...

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disklavier-owner@...

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Todd's family web site was completely updated 012/22/03. It contains some fun disklavier content and links to midi sites among many other things, The url is:
http://MuncyFamily.com

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http://MuncyFamily.com

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Re: Midi to mp3

2005-03-08 by drmyeyes2

I've been creating Midi backups to play Alto sax with, and burn them to mp3 and/or audio 
CD for performance backup when away from the house. I have done this with iTunes, both 
on Mac and PC and it is straightforward. Import the file into iTunes, and burn to audio CD. 
It uses Quicktime for the sounds. 

For best sound quality, however, I've found it better to use the sound module in the 
Disklavier. I feed the audio out from my MkIII DC3A to the sound input on my computer, 
and record in any number of programs. I've mostly been using Sound Studio, free with 
Macs, but have also used Roxio's Spin Doctor, which comes with Toast on the Mac, or the 
similar program that comes with EZ CD Creator on the PC.

Once I've got an audio file, AIFF or WAV, it's a simple matter to burn to CD. Again, I use 
Toast or iTunes.

Whether you use the Disklavier sound module or your computer to generate the sound 
depends on the quality of the software synth in your computer, but generally, a dedicated 
hardware synthesizer (your Disklavier) will sound better most of the time.