Need help to re-amp a small midi piano part?

It's a 50 second piano introduction and they don't have a piano player in the ensemble that can take care of this?



I'm not a piano player, but if I was tasked to do what you are asking about I'd just open up the PRV view and listen carefully while thinking about whether one or the other note would sound better louder or softer and then I'd just edit the note velocities.

The timing sounds ok but the note lengths seem a bit uniform... so the piece doesn't have much emotion... it's more about texture right now. If it's supposed to seem emotional, then I'd take another look at the note lengths and see if you can make it breathe a bit.



best regards,
mike

I would think you'd want to be in the room with the piano so that you could hear what a subtle tweak in MIDI velocity amounted to acoustically when the hammer hits the string.

The idea that they may edit on site seems good.

The way velocity layers on a sample set are mapped is discrete and manipulated to give the impression of wide ranging dynamics.

The robotics on a player piano will have it's own unique response curve... a lot like the way each human player interacts with each piano action a bit differently.

I got to record a performance on a Hamburg Steinway last week. It was previously selected and owned by Aaron Copland, and it is maintained by the current owner as if it is the jewel of the fleet. Goodness, it was nice to be in that room for those few hours.



Anyways, my head's still trying to get straight with the idea that a song can have a 50 second intro... in my mind a 50 second piece is a song.  :-)



all the best,
mike

fanir, have you removed the files? I followed both links & neither were there.

Hi James. That link was certainly working last time I checked it and it is a very real website. I suggest checking back in a few days or so as they may be doing maintenance etc. 

It is good idea but may be costly for some. The cost does depend on the length of the music etc and how well prepared the midi file is as well. 

In the case of the OP it might be just a simple case to edit velocities and timing of the original midi file to make it sound much better.  One thing that often happens is that velocities are all way too high and there is no room for tonal expression as a result. Try pulling all your velocities say half way down. You might have to increase the level of the VST as a result but you will often find how nice many piano VST's actually sound at medium to lowish velocities and also how well they can change their tone as they get higher and higher. Then you can go in and start making some of the velocities higher and lower etc and the resultant sound will be much more natural.


Piano players actually don't often bash the living hell out of the instrument all the time for every note and chord do they so why do the same in the virtual piano situation.