In Reply to: Not really. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 12, 2016 at 08:12:23:
I inquired as to what degree that progress was hands-off computer number crunching and to what extent there was human intervention, and the answer I received was not at all satisfactory.
On many modern, computer/MIDI-based piano playback systems, there is the ability to "go back in" to the command files and literally clean things up--move events in time, change the nature of an event, etc.
My position on the matter is, sure, Rachmaninoff cut some piano rolls. But unless there is a computer program that takes what is on the piano roll and translates it to a modern playback piano system with no human intervention, then... we are hearing some fallible human's IMPROVEMENT or RE-INTERPRETATION of a piano roll.
Which I don't have a problem with. What I do have a problem with is the PR claim that what we are hearing is 100% Rachmaninoff.
Chris, what is your take on that?
John
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Follow Ups
- I might be missing something, but... I never got a satisfactory explanation re: Zenph - John Marks 08:33:25 07/12/16 (10)
- Here's the "more" - Chris from Lafayette 15:53:55 07/12/16 (8)
- Still seems like a waste of time and resources to me... - genungo 19:14:56 07/12/16 (0)
- Thanks for all that! - rbolaw 17:07:04 07/12/16 (6)
- I think Gould's switch to Yamaha was rather toward the end. - John Marks 17:02:28 07/13/16 (1)
- Yup - I think that late set of Haydn Sonatas was also recorded on a Yamaha - Chris from Lafayette 21:09:42 07/13/16 (0)
- I'm sure that something was sacrificed - Chris from Lafayette 18:36:11 07/12/16 (3)
- RE: I'm sure that something was sacrificed - rbolaw 19:10:57 07/12/16 (2)
- Well, I'd love to find out in any case - Chris from Lafayette 22:56:42 07/12/16 (1)
- What I meant by that - rbolaw 06:20:39 07/13/16 (0)
- Zenph is not based on piano rolls (you thinking of Telarc?) - more later [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 09:27:45 07/12/16 (0)