[Tatonik]

PStamler wrote:

Actually, there was at least one commercial "direct to disc" CD issued, in
the late 1980s or early 1990s. They got around the problem of the
musician(s) having to play perfectly for 74 or so minutes by using a
Yamaha MIDI Grand piano. They miked it simply, used very little
processing, and converted to digital onsite; they then sent the digital
signal via a digital connection to the CD manufacturing plant, which cut a
glass master from it. The theory behind all this was that a recording cut
that way would contain less jitter than a conventionally recorded CD.
Which is horsefeathers, but someone spent a lot of money and time doing
this. I have no idea what the music was or how the disc sounded.

Peace,
The Other Paul (Stamler)

I think I have an album that was done that way: Dick Hyman Plays Fats
Waller on Reference Recordings. It was made on a Bosendorfer
Reproducing Piano. The sound is good, though I doubt it has anything to
do with the unusual way in which the album was made. The sound might be
even better if I could just download a copy of the MIDI file and wedge
that 9-foot Bosendorfer into my living room.