Need help finding piano recording service

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Hi all...I have three piano compositions played on a Yamaha P200 and recorded as MIDI data in digital performer. The P200 sounds fine for casual listening, but now I want to take it to the next level for a CD I'm working on. I want to find a studio that can take my midi files and play them through a disclavier or other midi-enabled acoustic piano, and record them in a sonically excellent environment. The end-product I want is three acoustic piano recordings of my music at a pro-level in terms of sound quality. I've searched the web and asked around but I haven't been able to locate a service like this. If anyone knows where I can go for something like this, please let me know...Thanks!
Larry
 
I haven't heard of something like that, by the way all the digital pianos I have seen doesnot take midi input and play acoustically. It uses the on board synthesizer to produce the sounds(not hammer and mechanical actions). May be there could be pianos that can produce mechanical sounds from midi, but I am sure no regular studios can afford that.
If you have a midi file and want to produce pro quality piano sounds for your CD, use a very good sound module which has good piano sounds or use Steinway Grand samples and run the midi. Almost any good studio would do that for a very reasonable price. If you want I could do it in my studio, try calling your near by studios too, they can help you get what you want in no time.
 
You played them to record them in the first place, right. Then go to a studio and play them on an actual acoustic piano. That would sound the best. (and I have never heard a synth piano that fooled me into believing that it was real)
 
Why not ask a friend with a decent synth/sound module and recording PC to load them up and play them. He/she could record them to a WAV file and burn you a CD.

The quality should be more than good enough for demo purposes.

Heck, if you have any friends at the various message boards (like this one:D) you could e-mail them the midi files and they could snail mail you a CD.
 
Appreciate the relies. Actually, I have a bunch of modules with decent piano samples: Kurzweil PC2R, Roland XV3080, Yamaha P200 and Korg Triton Studio Pro. What I need is to find a studio with a Yamaha Disklavier, which is a 6'11" REAL grand piano with actual hammers and strings which is triggered by MIDI data. Thing is, I already have a demo disk of piano songs recorded from my P200, which is about as good as a sampled piano can sound, but it is not the real thing. Now I want to put together the real CD, not a demo but a potentially commercial product, and that means I need an actual piano mic'd. I don't want to go to a studio and play it all over again because my three songs were painstakingly recorded, edited and refined over a period of a year - I could never play them at the level of finesse that they currently exist in MIDI data!!! Now I just need to find someone or some studio with a Disklavier or similar unit (Kurzweil has one too) - a REAL, GENUINE acoustic piano that can play back MIDI files.

-Larry
 
Call up the Yamaha piano dealers in your area and see if they can hook you up with somebody. I doubt they sell that many so the list is probably pretty short. I sold pianos for a year and only sold one of those. They put them on different lengths so don't expect a full grand automatically. There are also different companies that sell the same thing. Schafer and Sons had the same thing under a different name but their pianos would generally sound like shit compared to a well tuned Yami.
 
Tex why don't you take the job?
Take his midi files and your radar up to that piano store on camelback and record them from one of theirs. I'm pretty sure that place is acoustically treated for great sound, and I think they sell Yamaha...
If they let you do it...
 
Do you know how much I would have to charge to pull the radar out of my rig, lol.

In all seriousness if you are looking to spend over a $1000 on the project let me know and I might be able to pull something together pretty high quality. Just PM me through this site. I'm swamped right now but I might be able to do something in a month or so.
 
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Try google for combinations of words like recording studio disclavier...
 
Thanks, subtractor & TexRoadkill...I'm going to get in touch with these studios and look for some others on the web. I'm hoping to do this for considerably less than $1,000, since it "should" just be an hour or so of MIDI playback and audio recording, but maybe I'm being unrealistic. Appreciate the advice...
Larry
 
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