Topic: Demo - Pianoteq in creating audio track for YouTube piano-playing clip
Hi everybody,
I wanted to share with you another possible use of PianoTeq.
I wanted to post to YouTube a videoclip of me playing piano, however, since I don't have a video camera, I used an iPhone to film myself
You can imagine that the audio quality was not good enough for a quality listening to a piano playing (video quality is not perfect either, but that's another story), and since my piano (Yamaha GranTouch GT2) has a MIDI output, i decided to replace the original audio with a Pianoteq-generated audio track. I simultaneously recorded video and MIDI:
1. Video capture: iPhone; I then transfered the MOV file to a Windows XP PC and converted to AVI with "Format Factory" (a great free piece of software!).
2. Simultaneous MIDI capture: recording MIDI output from Yamaha Grantouch GT2 with Red Dot Forever (another useful freebie), converting MIDI to WAV with Pianoteq 3 (i decided to use "C3 Solo Recording"), converting WAV to MP3 with Audacity-another freebie (before converting to MP3, i amplified the signal).
3. Combining AVI and MP3 & adding title: Windows Movie Maker, aligning original audio track with the Pianoteq-generated track - very important, otherwise your fingers won't be in sync with the sound , muting the original audio track, saving as WMV, upload to YouTube.
Of course, the velocity curve in Pianoteq must be properly adjusted to the piano keyboard profile.
Now, these are my first attempts, apologies for sloppy playing and a couple of mistakes, i am not used to filming myself The brightness is too high, my mistake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtDkNYr6bc
Although there seems to be a lot of steps, some of them were mostly due to the fact that Windows Movie Maker does not accept iPhone MOV files (at least not in Windows XP) and WAV files (as generated by PianoTeq).
However, I do like the chance of using whatever PianoTeq preset I may desire, especially since the original internal Yamaha GranTouch GT2 sound samples are not perfect (after all, this model is about 11 years old).
Hope that perhaps somebody will find this useful.
Kind regards,
yaccob