Hello Fellow Unicorns,
The attached link takes you to the new East West Quantum Leap Virtual Pianos website where you will find an mp3 file of my performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue.
The original MIDI performance was recorded entirely in DP5 using a nearly 20 year old Roland A-80 keyboard, and the Bluthner BDMO piano software with Altiverb6. I converted it to a Standard MIDI File, and sent it to Nick Phoenix, who kindly used the SMF data to display his 60+GB Bosendorfer piano.
This is my first submittal to the Digital Performer User Showcase. Being an old guy (55 years old) and having been playing piano for over 50 years, I do not have a website of my own; until now, I had no way of sending a link to an mp3 file of my piano performance work until now.
Opinions and comments on the sound quality and performance quality are welcomed. Enjoy.
Sincerely,
Joe Felice <jcfelice88keys>
http://media.soundsonline.com/mp3/2059_ ... 20Blue.mp3
Rhapsody in Blue played on EWQL Virtual Pianos Bosendorfer
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That's an impressive and original performance of that piece, Mr. Felice, thank you for sharing it. I was struggling to learn to play it about the time you were born, and I never got a real handle on it. I enjoyed your interpretation a great deal. However I really am not impressed with the sound of the piano, Bosendorfer or not. To me it sounds dark, muffled and has no space or air. Perhaps it has to do with conversion to mp3, or some other conversion process that you may have used, but I'd try that MIDI file on a different piano package.
Let's hear some more!
Wayne
Let's hear some more!
Wayne
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Proof that MIDI files do not transfer well to other pianos
Hello Wayne,
I appreciate your remarks about the performance and your perceptions of the sound. I did not have a copy of the actual EWQL software at the time I recorded the Rhapsody In Blue. The nuances placed into to the performance were shaped in the moment of performance by the sound I heard, using the Bluthner BDMO piano's sound.
As you are well aware, the piano's sound -- at the time of performing the piece in real time -- governs my tempo and key velocity in the keyboard. I am sure that if I had the EWQL software at the time of performance, the tempi would have been different, here and there. But more importantly, I would have been able to interact with the sound more, such that certain notes, passages, chords, etc. would have been played with different key velocities, in real time.
Certainly what you heard in the mp3 is NOT the fault of the software! It just goes to show that one cannot achieve the finest performance a virtual piano sound is capable of achieving by juxtaposing one MIDI performance onto another sound source.
My hat is off to Nick Phoenix and the sounds of his new Quantum Leap Virtual Piano software. Hopefully, in the future, some of my demos will appear in the EWQL website that were performed with Virtual Pianos from the get go.
Joe
I appreciate your remarks about the performance and your perceptions of the sound. I did not have a copy of the actual EWQL software at the time I recorded the Rhapsody In Blue. The nuances placed into to the performance were shaped in the moment of performance by the sound I heard, using the Bluthner BDMO piano's sound.
As you are well aware, the piano's sound -- at the time of performing the piece in real time -- governs my tempo and key velocity in the keyboard. I am sure that if I had the EWQL software at the time of performance, the tempi would have been different, here and there. But more importantly, I would have been able to interact with the sound more, such that certain notes, passages, chords, etc. would have been played with different key velocities, in real time.
Certainly what you heard in the mp3 is NOT the fault of the software! It just goes to show that one cannot achieve the finest performance a virtual piano sound is capable of achieving by juxtaposing one MIDI performance onto another sound source.
My hat is off to Nick Phoenix and the sounds of his new Quantum Leap Virtual Piano software. Hopefully, in the future, some of my demos will appear in the EWQL website that were performed with Virtual Pianos from the get go.
Joe