PianoDisc technology question

[Dave Bunch]

Most of PianoDisc's library is derived from having an artist come in their
studio and recording their performance with equipment much like the record
strip on the commercial system, except I am sure it is more sophisticated.
After editing the digital input, they have the finished product.

Player rolls can be converted to digital. As far as converting a regular
audio recording to something that would play on PianoDisc, I am not aware of
any such technology. That would be a neat trick, though!

Dave Bunch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:14 PM
Subject: PianoDisc technology question


> I got into a discussion with someone about whether you can take any
> recording and retrieve enough data from it to make a good playback on a
> player system, including dynamics. From PianoDisc's website, this is what
> they offer:
>
>    Our CD Music Library contains songs in every category of music. The
>    highly acclaimed and ever-expanding Artist Series includes recordings
>    by today's top performers. Our Masterpiece Collection contains
>    classical selections performed by some of the legendary pianists of the
>    20th century, including Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein and Sergei
>    Rachmaninoff.
>
> The question is, how did they get this data? Was it a painstaking process
> of trial and error for each recording until they got it right? Or do they
> have the technology to easily convert any recording into digital data that
> would faithfully reproduce a piano performance on a PianoDisc system?
> Anybody know?
>
> Charles Neuman
> PTG Assoc, Long Island - Nassau
>