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Re: upgrading my XGII with the DKC-850

2013-09-11 by buddaeru

I have a older C3 XG// (Wagon?) model.
2nd owner.
Lot's of floppies.. probably 100-150 floppies..

Enjoy it immensely.  And the worry of a floppy going bad, after losing one to extensive play.. I started to worry on how I'm going to back it up.  
Initially I tried to copy the floppies.. but then I started looking at the DKC-850..and eventually bought a DKC-850.

Eventually got the Yamaha Drive made for the DKC-850 (I tried the cheap route, trying to find various floppy drives that were supposed to work).  In the end the Yamaha Floppy drive was the one that could read my old floppies.

I imported all my floppies into the DKC-850.  Even made a usb backup of it after importing them.  Best feature that I love now is creating various playlists from my collection of floppies..

As time progressed, I hooked up the DKC-850 to my home wireless network, and downloaded the IPAD Yamaha Apps (2 apps).  One app looks like the remote so you can select all your favorite features (Voice,tempo).  The other Yamaha App is more of a playlist selector, so you can see all the files that is on the DKC-850, or if you have new songs on a usb, you can see that also and play it back..

I don't have all the fancy features on my C3 (silent mode, etc..) but it's still pretty awesome for an older Disklavier setup.

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