Disklavier

I've purchased various Yamaha Piano Soft and Smart Piano Soft titles. I 
have found that the results vary in quality. Are there any reviews of 
these titles? Does anyone care to share what they like and what they 
don't.

For many of the Yamaha Smart Piano Soft titles, the piano overpowers 
the music, mainly because the playback of the CD seems too soft and its 
volume is weaker that it should be, even with the speakers and the 
audio turned all the way up.

Some Smart Piano soft titles do not have this problem, so perhaps this 
is becuase of the recording volume of the original CD.

Even for some of the Piano Solo titles, many of the performances come 
across as "too fancy", in my opinion. Sometimes I think the performer 
is trying to out-do the original artist --- and sometimes the results 
are just too ornate.

Depsite all of that, there are some that I have purchased that I do 
like considerably.

The discountpianosoftware.com site, let users post or rate the piano
disks and CD's on site,  but I believe they are going out of business.
 You can also listen to a few samples on that site as well.  I usually
stick with the piano only stuff as it sounds the best, most times.  If
I want to listen to the audio type songs I play them in a nice stereo
system.

David Lanz has good piano disks.  

Joan


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Phil Blah <phil.blah@...> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
> 
> Yeah I totally agree, some titles are great and others fail to
capture the song properly at all.
> 
> It's also annoying that you have to buy a entire CD and can't just
download 1 song with piano data.... they are still way behind the
times with stupid old bloated uncompressed wave files. A 192 or 256
MP3 (or even something efficient) would be good.
> 
> Plus, using the Mark 4 internet connection... I am continually
frustrated in how much I have to pay for 1 song. Some are hard to tell
if they are any good until you buy them (sample is too short). Also if
they are 'general midi' it does warn you that the song might be
shitty, but they charge pretty much the same price.. The only 'safe'
purchases are from 'Sue Downs' but sometimes I feel that they are
'just churned out'.
> 
> :) hehe I like constructive winging.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: ezephyr5 <ezephyr5@...>
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, 1 March, 2009 6:48:43 PM
> Subject: [disklavier] Any Reviews of Yamaha Disklavier Music?
> 
> 
> I've purchased various Yamaha Piano Soft and Smart Piano Soft titles. I 
> have found that the results vary in quality. Are there any reviews of 
> these titles? Does anyone care to share what they like and what they 
> don't.
> 
> For many of the Yamaha Smart Piano Soft titles, the piano overpowers 
> the music, mainly because the playback of the CD seems too soft and its 
> volume is weaker that it should be, even with the speakers and the 
> audio turned all the way up.
> 
> Some Smart Piano soft titles do not have this problem, so perhaps this 
> is becuase of the recording volume of the original CD.
> 
> Even for some of the Piano Solo titles, many of the performances come 
> across as "too fancy", in my opinion. Sometimes I think the performer 
> is trying to out-do the original artist --- and sometimes the results 
> are just too ornate.
> 
> Depsite all of that, there are some that I have purchased that I do 
> like considerably.
> 
> 
>    
> 
> 
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You can adjust the balance of the music vs. the piano in the Volume control window -- in the PRC, click on the speaker icon in the upper left corner and adjust the Audio slider to control the CD music volume.  In DKVBrowser, click the Volume button in the upper left and adjust the Audio slider that will appear in the Volume window.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "ezephyr5" <ezephyr5@...> wrote:

> 
> For many of the Yamaha Smart Piano Soft titles, the piano overpowers the music, mainly because the playback of the CD seems too soft and its volume is weaker that it should be, even with the speakers and the audio turned all the way up.
> 
> Some Smart Piano soft titles do not have this problem, so perhaps this is becuase of the recording volume of the original CD.
>

While George is correct in what he says, using that means of doing it will affect all songs, and the balance that you find will likely be different for other songs.

Instead, while the song is playing, hit the left side of the 4 way button on the bottom of the PRC to get to a page that says "Option" on the bottom.  There you should see an "Audio Volume Adjust".  That will let you alter the balance and the piano will remember the setting the next time that song is played.

Following George's lead... this same setting is available in the "Song Options" view in DKVBrowser.

I've also been using the "Song Options" recently for another means... I used to pre-process downloaded MIDI files to adjust their overall "velocity" or volume...I've stopped doing that, and now just use this screen to do it on the piano.

-Kevin




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From: George Allison <disklav@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:40:20 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Any Reviews of Yamaha Disklavier Music?


You can adjust the balance of the music vs. the piano in the Volume control window -- in the PRC, click on the speaker icon in the upper left corner and adjust the Audio slider to control the CD music volume.  In DKVBrowser, click the Volume button in the upper left and adjust the Audio slider that will appear in the Volume window.

--- In disklavier@yahoogro ups.com, "ezephyr5" <ezephyr5@.. .> wrote:

> 
> For many of the Yamaha Smart Piano Soft titles, the piano overpowers the music, mainly because the playback of the CD seems too soft and its volume is weaker that it should be, even with the speakers and the audio turned all the way up.
> 
> Some Smart Piano soft titles do not have this problem, so perhaps this is becuase of the recording volume of the original CD.
>