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When I play piano, it sounds like this.

September 30, 2010 By Steven Halls

My piano at home is a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-409. It has a record button, which lets it capture exactly what you play, and replay it, and it also lets you Save it to the USB drive. However, I was disappointed to discover that it saves .mid files (midi), which sound crappy when you play them on a PC (using the default synthesizer voices of windows media player).

However, I discovered a separate feature that records direct to the USB drive. The feature is quite limited.. simply Record ON and OFF. It stores .wav files on the USB drive, that sound quite good. However, they were huge! I used Sony SoundForge 9.0 to convert them into .mp3’s. A problem I found was that the recordings are very low volume, and when you Normalize them to increase the volume, some “wobbly pitch instability” appears in the sound.

Anyway, this post is to also test the WordPress feature of uploading music. So without furter adeu, here are a few improvised things I’ve recorded.
(Goot thing there’s no “furter” adeu, eh?)

Yes, these were all improvised at the spur of the moment, no plan beforehand.Download mp3
Audio_1Audio_1
Audio_2Audio_2
Guitar sound. This is a nice sweet little piece.Audio_3
Audio_4Audio_4
Left-hand does most of the melody here.Audio_5
(deleted Audio_6)
Audio_7Audio_7
Audio_8Audio_8
Piano sounds great, in a short simple thing.Audio_9
Audio_10Audio_10
Audio_11Audio_11
Audio_12Audio_12
Audio_14Audio_14
Audio_15Audio_15
Audio_16Audio_16
Audio_17Audio_17
Audio_18Audio_18
Audio_19Audio_19
Audio_20Audio_20
Audio_21Audio_21
Audio_22Audio_22
Audio_23Audio_23
Audio_24Audio_24

SO, some of that music sounds pretty good, maybe just to me, and not all of it it good. But I didn’t post this to show off. This post actually started because I struck up an email conversation with a fellow in Japan who shares some other interests, and we got talking about the qualities of different Yamaha keyboards. I uploaded these to give him a sample of the sound of the Clavinova. But then I decided to leave them here, at least long enough for my brother and my mother to hear, both of whom are excellent musicians.

 
 
 

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