My New Album - "Lighten Up" - And The Yamaha C7 Disklavier Pro
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- My new album, "Lighten Up" is available for pre-sale today, April 17, 2020 and will be available everywhere you listen to music on April 24, 2020! I want to tell you about the amazing instrument I recorded with this time around! The Yamaha C7 Disklavier Pro allowed me to totally isolate my voice and the piano as I simultaneously recorded both at Ming Dynasty Studio in Long Beach.
Visit my website to purchase or stream Lighten Up on all platforms (but for the next week, only for pre-sale): www.aimeenolte...
Right now, the album is only available through streaming. If you'd like to donate toward helping me print CDs, please click here: paypal.me/aimn
Thank you so much!
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Meanwhile at Elton's place:
Visitor: What is so cool about this piano over here?
Elton: Oh, it was a free demo, but you know, it's like Aimee is playing my piano.
It is all very interesting!
Thank you for sharing, Aimee.
Phenomenal!
Fabulous!
Congratulations Aimee!
To play for the sense of joy is good for the brain. Congratulations on your successful album Aimee!
Wow, that's really fascinating technology. And it's amazing to hear it gets the approval of a real musician.
And congratulations on the new album!
Lovely cover photo.
So interesting to hear about - thanks! :-)
Congrats on the new release! The C7 alone, is fabulous instrument! What a great way to record too, using midi on that incredible instrument.
AHHHHHH Aimee I'm so excited I could cry right now!!You have no idea how much I adore your music it inspires me so much! I'm already listening to the samples and getting hit in the feels with if I should loose you! I am so happy all the things you are is on here as well! so excited and thank you!!
a really wonderful album, i appreciate especially "all the things you are". Congratulations.
You have such a sweet energy
Beautifully put together and beautiful cover Love everything about your new album!
Congratulations Madame Nolte; hope this album brings all the successes that you deserve so far...
Aimee, this video is a real POV piece of Your talented, seasoned, professional musician experience of "Lighten Up"! It is well explained in details of the studio with professional sound engineered and recorded processing, truly and vastly appreciated! Thank You! The keys looked beautifully haunted!
Congratulations Aimee, I'm sure the album will do very well. The snippets sound great.
Yup, I’ll get one of those pianos so I can listen to you, Cucho Valdes and Michel Camilo. It’ll be the most expensive MIDI player ever. Congrats on your new album, clicking the prerelease link now!!
I'm glad I convinced to let me put your COMPACT DISC in my computer. "Lighten Up" is a great album, now FINALLY out on COMPACT DISC! Nine excellent tracks. Great relief from tough times.
Before I know it I'm listening to "Ella's Song"!
Well worth the wait!
(Still checking the Weather Channel...).
This is the perfect instrument for a social distancing jam session!
I love your albums! Such good listening
Pre-ordered! Thank you for this run-through of the recording process, was really fascinating.
Thank you Thomas! I appreciate it so much.
It must have been eerie, standing there, watching your digital twin play the piano.
Thanks for sharing the details on this ... Yamaha C7 is on my wish list of piano to own one day ... what a sweet piano :)
Hi Aimee
Congratulations on your new album which I will download from iTunes.
I’m based in the UK and I wanted to let you know that I found your tutorials very easy to follow unlike many others.
It’s almost like having my own piano teacher. I’m gradually going through the previous videos you have recorded
Well done, keep safe !
Regards
David Holmes
Gran video! Saludos desde México.
That piano is really an amazing peace of techonology. It's basically a digital version of the old piano rolls.. + velociy. :-) Your engineer is right about the velocity range, but if you play on your Korg with weighted key you will probably play in the same range on intensity of a normal piano. It should have the 1-127 levels in the sustain pedal too (not if you use the cheep on off switch). Mine much cheaper Yamaha p115 has velocity range on the sustain. Great video and best wishes for your new album!
Yes, only the cheapest midi pedals are on/off, 0-127 is common. Also, the velocity range is adjustable on most keyboards controllers, usually called "touch" or "sensitivity" adjustment, which doesn't adjust anything about how the keys feel, just controls how velocity levels correlate with key presses, e.g., whether a hard press sends velocity of, say, 80, or 85, or 88. . .
@@hsitz Thank you for explaining this. I've suspected that this was how touch sensitivity worked but was too scared to mess with it for fear that I'd end up screwing up my digital learning experience.
Fantastic... looks like a Yamaha C7x. I have a C3x and love it. But wow that 40com extra on the C7 makes a difference for the bass! Btw loved your modern jazz playing 6.20... not heard you play like that before!
Aimee, you need to send this to Herbie.
I'm a fan of Mike Garson's (Bowie's long time pianist) on the spot improvs he created on an earlier version of the Disklavier - he subsequently made them available for inspiration and education. MIDI guitar is still lagging behind but it's getting there.
Congratulations on your new recording and for telling us about the technology used. As a much less expensive alternative to that technology, you should try PíanoTeq paired with an awesome piano controller like the Kawai VCP1. The VCP1 is built from an actual piano mechanism. PianoTeq software is based in physical modelling and it provides a level responsiveness and nounce that is unmatched by sampling based systems.
Ooooh... 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I pre-ordered it on iTunes earlier. Wishing all the best with the release!
Thank you Rick!!
Hi Aimee , Listening to the short clips of your Lighten-up album put a smile on my face, I had to go ahead and pre-order right away :). I always learn something new from the erudite presentations on your channel. Thanks for sharing your talent. I need to sneak in request here ;) Are you able to give full solo expositions of your top 25 Jazz standards someday using your ‘tune a week’ method?
Whoa. Thank you for the pre-order!!! Also, could you explain your request a bit more? Might be a great idea.
I was thinking, you playing through the list of your 25 standards, showing how will create 'beautiful rootless 2-handed voicings, LH closed voicings with RH melodies, solo with patterns and finally creating solo performances. It is perhaps quite an ask for all 25, so perhaps a down-sampling of the sublist that is sure to the knowledge of a Jazz piano student. :)
The only piano synth that makes no nonsense use of all 128 dynamical steps available in standard midi I know of is pianoteq.
I'm buying. You sold me on your talent..and your circa 1975 hairstylist.
...is this a a good point to include Lol? Love your teaching skills.
Midi is a great technology. Keyboard players are spoiled in that way. We guitarists don't have a satisfying solution yet. I'm jealous ... . By the way, that fragment of If I should lose you at the end: wow !
There are very good vst instruments that emulate the guitar very well (and brass, and strings...)
@@oselini The problem is the accurate capturing and translation of the input signal from the guitar, which is a complex sound. With a keyboard this is much easier.
@@mer1red ah ok if you mean the guitar synth technology you are right..I have the gr 55 Roland and sometime is a pain. But I was talking about emulating a guitar using a computer
My Roland RD-800 records MIDI velocity for both the pedal and keys based on the actual pressure that I apply (not 0 or 127, off or on).
I have recently got access to Yamaha C7 grand piano (twice a week) and lost my interest in digital pianos
I don't do iTunes (or anything with DRM). Sent some $$ your way, but won't hold my breath until the CD arrives. ;) I love your touch -- 60-70 up to 90 is just right!
Thank you so much Larry. I will send you a CD when I get them printed. I don’t know if you saw it in the description, but I’m saving money right now to be able to do that. If you follow me on any social media platform, I will make it known, when I do have CDs, then it would be awesome if you could email me and let me know your address and remind me that you already sent me money thru PayPal. :-) I really appreciate it.
Yaaaaaaay I’m so excited!!! I’m excited. I love hearing standards and your original tunes! Can I buy a CD or it on Vinyl?
Eventually, but I’m not printing them yet. I had to re-purpose my budget because of COVID-19. So I’m waiting a little bit longer for a time when it makes sense to spend money on that.
hi, i need to convert some midis to acoustic piano, do you do that job? thanks
Very cool. I’m a Yamaha fan (have two acoustic drum kits). Technology isn’t there for drummers...yet. Who knows - maybe some day. It must be strange “watching” yourself play. 😊
Don't you love technology? I gave up on analog pianos 20 years ago. Love Roland and Yamaha! Hey, Scott Joplin and Gershwin recorded on piano roll! They didn't have a lovely voice like yours, though.
I've had the QRS system for years and recently purchased a new piano with the new Optical midi scanning. It's amazing technology. Have you have a chance to record/play on both? I'm curious as to how much better the Disklavier Pro is vs. their system.
Congratulations on your album Aimee! I pre-ordered it on iTunes today,. Looking forward to listening to it.
Using the disklavier was a great idea! How did the MIDI sound to you when you were singing and playing? Was the piano sound realistic?
Jim thank you so very much! That’s a great question. It took me about 30 seconds to get used to it and then I was fine. That was the only part that wasn’t really optimal, but there wasn’t any latency or anything. I just told myself to play like I would play any other day and it wasn’t a problem.
Aimee Nolte Music thanks Aimee!
Interesting I didn't know they had a silent mode. The new Roland MIDI controller that came out at NAMM this year supports the new MIDI 2.0 spec which is more detailed like you're talking about. I wonder how it compares to the Disklavier Pro.
I just did a websearch for "The Yamaha C7 Disklavier Pro" and after three days this video is the first video suggestion on google, the second link suggestion on startpage and on the first more results click on duckduckgo.
Cooooool!
Hey thanks Scott! 🙌🏼🙏🏼
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Your Welcome Aimee. 😎👍
you should sell the midi files also for disklavier owners. best way to listen to an artists' content is "live" in your own home
Hmmm I think the piano parts alone wouldn’t be very fun to listen to though. I like the idea…I may think about looking into it if I record some solo piano
6:22 All I can say is ouch.
my birthday
Amy ... Question ... Do you own the C7 Disklavier at home or do you only use it in a studio somewhere else? I am wanting to buy a Yamaha Piano with this system built in when I move into my new home ... I currently am considering S6X with the Disklavier Pro R built in ... Please reply with your comments or recommendations ... I loved your TH-cam channel and have just discovered you today ... you have a new subscriber and FAN ....
No, not mine. Wish I could help. I loved that C7 though. I’d suggest trying out the S6X at a piano showroom.
@@AimeeNolte I did ... awesome experience... thanks. Think I will get one : Yamaha S6X EnspirePro.
Congratulations with your new album, Aimee!
Any ambition to compose too? The first pronunciation of Disklavier was better. A bit too long on the "kla" for German, they put the emphasis on the second syllable. The second syllable has the same sound as in "beer" but then with a v.
Thanks Peter. :-) My last three albums have been full of originals. This is the first time I have sung from the great American songbook. I hope you like it!
That Disklavier is interesting but I do see one possible disadvantage. If it plays itself based on the recording then you can only have a limited number of volumes. For example if it uses 4 bits (which Yamaha often uses) for the volume then you have only 16 volumes which can be used. So you can loose some nuance. I don't know how many bits they use, if they would use 5 bits then you get 32 volumes, with 6 bits 64...
Other than that you might also loose some nuance with how exactly you touch the key, more to the back or more to the front. Difficult to say. These pianos might be a lot further than the regular $1500-3000 ones. Indeed, I want people to play the piano and I think that the subtle nuances which you get by humans playing, good and bad (errors), make it more interesting. You hear the personality through the playing.
MIDI uses 7 bits (128 levels, 0-127) for velocities. While it's true that not all instruments record velocity that finely, I'm pretty sure the Disklavier pianos do.
@@SeanRaleigh I have a 2008 Yamaha (Clavinova-series), that has only 4 or 5 bits for the volume-level according to the manual, I think it is 4 but I would need to look it up to be sure. 128 bits seems pretty ok to me, it requires a good player to need more, I would think.
Anyway, with an electric piano the bigger problem is the sound when it is synthesized. Obviously the Disklavier has both real piano sound and synthesized sound so for that one it is not a problem. For example, in the case of my Yamaha the d sounds rather ugly, you hear some weird artifact sound when you play the d. You also can hear that with eartraining software (tonedearcom). I have been curious to what extend they could improve that by using better CPU's these days, CPU's which can handle more complex Fourier transforms (more sinusoids to produce 1 tone).
@@peterjansen4826 Yamaha's consumer (non-pro) electronic keyboards or lower grade electronic pianos indeed use 4 or 5 bits (my e. keybaord is using 4 bits I think) to encode the key velocities (aka "touch sensitivity" on the e.keyboards). Even the more expensive pro devices could be using 5 bits max. But this device (Disklavier) that Aimee played seems to be using full 8-bits, and hence offer 128 distinct velocity levels of piano key touch. And the produced MIDI files can utilize all 128 levels, though on most practical cases (as Aimee recalled) a narrower than available dynamic range is observed and recorded. Furthermore, if you make the MIDI recording using another device, you won't be able to take advantage of that full sensitivity range either... Anyway, digital technology (CPU power, RAM, HDD, paralel processing, and algorithms) has progressed more than 100x in speed and more than 1000x in computational power in the last three decades. Yet neither Yamaha nor other brands seem to reflect this available potential into improving their electronic keybaord hardware products. Don't know the actual reasons; technical, strategical..? Compare this to how little smartphones can have astonishing visual capabilities these days, the electronic music industry is responding quite slowly when compared. There could be some theoretical limitations too. Synthesizing natural sounding instruments with live play capability is way more difficult than it may seem at first, especially when compared to robotic synthesizers.
@@4thesakeofitname The only technical reason to hold back with more accurate sound which I can think of with my knowledge of electronics is latency. That they use 4 or 5 bits for consumer-electronics is disappointing, it seems to only serve up-selling.
casio home keyboards can submit midi velocity with 14 bits so an expensive professional instrument can probably do just as well. Its a weird hack on midi though, so maybe hard to edit when 127 levels is good enough.
Aimee please tell me about the pillow
Congratulations Aimee! Great news! Where do I buy it?
iTunes/Apple Music and THANK YOU!
@@AimeeNolte Is it available on Amazon Music? I don't have Apple Music or iTunes.
It will be a week from today. :-) Thanks Steven.
@@AimeeNolte BTW: In 2002, at Winter NAMM in Anaheim, a buddy of mine and I stood two feet behind Stevie Wonder who walked into the Yamaha venue to test an early version of that "player piano". The demo didn't work, but I got a real treat listening to him play the vamp to "Golden Lady" and other top hits of his. After we walked out we followed him (and his entourage). I said "Stevie! You're awesome man! I've been listening to you since you were 'Little Stevie Wonder'! By the way, my name's Steve too!" At that point, he did a 180 turn, came back (much to the chagrin of his handlers) and embraced me like family saying "Wow man! That's great! You've got a great name there..." to which I said "I agree... You just keep on doin' what you do Stevie!" and then he moved along. I was star struck! I swore I wasn't going wash for a week!
@@stevenhodgkiss442 is Stevie really blind?
He also could have used Melodyne to come back and "fix" your vocals as well.
You could also have the playback on the piano and a recorded version of your voice for a semi-live perfomance.