Re: Pianomation and Pianodisc Questions
By Will Dahlgren
Questions from Jeff Keimer:
> 1. I just had the Pianomation system installed on my Youg Chang grand by
> Dick Leonard of San Francisco. Sounds super!!! I find that on the
> accompanied CD based selections there is far too much bass-boost on the
> audio playback track I feed off the CD to an small amplifier driving two
> speakers. I listened to the CD channel on my regular home stereo and
> confirmed that the bass is much too strong. Anyone else finding the same
> problem?
Talked to the folks at QRS and they haven't heard of this before. (However, the main music honcho is on vacation for 2 weeks.) Are you hearing this bass-boost on all QRS orchestrated music? If you E-mail me your album numbers, I will follow up in a couple of weeks.
> 2. I had the Pianodisc 3 1/2" floppy palyback and record unit insatlled
> with the Pianomation playback system. It will not play floppys from my PC
> that have MIDI files on them. So, I have tried having the Pianodisc unit
> reformat a 3 1/2" disc so that I could then record onto the disc through the
> MIDI IN jack with a cable from my PC, which has Cakewak installed and a lot
> of Cakewalk files I would like to be able to playback on my grand piano.
> When the Pianodisc unit is close to finishing the reformatting function on
> a 3 1/2" disc it stops and says "Disk error. Read or seek error" .Any idea
> what is happening?
I am not a PianoDisk person, but I have been told that you must have the latest version of their software for computer generated MIDI disks to play.
Also, I believe you must use HD disks, not DD. I have had problems with some stand-alone MIDI disk players trying to format disks that were previously formatted by something else. The solution was to bulk erase the disk. Radio Shack sells a bulk eraser for, I think, less than $15.
> 3. I have purchased about 10 discs so far, some from QRS, some from Yahama
> and some from Pianodisc. So far I can hear vast differences in the quality of
> playing form the recording artists and in the QRS audio track on accompanied
> selections.
>
> I'd like to buy more but would love to hear from other MIDI equipped piano
> owners who have listened to discs and may have some advice.
This is a good point, since the music from ALLl vendors is not cheap. Don't really have a good answer. Probably only 1% (if that) of owners of solenoid piano systems are connected to the Internet. THEN, how many of them are willing to submit "reviews" of their music that could be made available to all?
What we may be able to do, as a start, is identify some Internet owners of these systems that are willing to have their net addresses and equipment lists on a "list". I will write a separate letter to this group about this idea.
Will Dahlgren
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