...the Doug McKenzie Mine

Great! I'll pass it on to my students. thnx

P.S. would he have used a disklavier?

...cool

DrJellyfish wrote:

P.S. would he have used a disklavier?

What do you mean DrJellyfish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disklavier

is a Yamaha acoustic piano with a special system that allows you to record everything played in MIDI and have it performed by the piano (by itself) or by

another keyboard or PC, or print the score. I was thinking of that because transcribing everything played note for note (or writing it down and then performing it) would be a bit of a long job...

and from what I have read on the internet it seems that he uses it...

DrJellyfish wrote:

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Disklavier

is a Yamaha acoustic piano with a special system that allows you to record everything played in MIDI and have it performed by the piano (by itself) or by

another keyboard or PC, or print the score. I was thinking of that because transcribing everything played note for note (or writing it down and then performing it) would be a bit of a long job...

But writing a decent score by deriving it from a MIDI file created through a keyboard (by playing) is a bold task ... MIDI stores everything, even infinitesimal rhythmic deviations that it would report in the score ...

I don't know how they do it, maybe a quantization can be programmed.

DrJellyfish wrote:

I don't know how they do it, maybe you can program a quantization.

Exactly, you can set a quantization; the larger the minimum quantization unit is, the higher the success rate in score transcription. However, what makes me opt for some other system is the fact that the right hand is perfectly separated from the left. There are two possibilities: the two hands were played in separate tracks (one after the other), but this seems impossible to me since we are in the Jazz field, or the notes in the two hands were manually rearranged and divided once the score was played. One thing is certain, as of today, there is no software in the world capable of knowing which hand played a note...