Hello Kevin, I've been traveling but keeping up on your awesome efforts to bring more functionality to the DKVB on the DKC850. You might recall, I've been both a $ supported and big fan of your software which I use everytime I play my DK. I'll download the latest version, ;follow the debug instructions and hope to have some information back you to later next week.
Thanks again for your efforts!
Keith
kassey22000 on the DK yahoo site
Thanks again for your efforts!
Keith
kassey22000 on the DK yahoo site
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
From: kgoroway@...
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:20:52 -0800
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV being discontinued?
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From: kgoroway@...
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:20:52 -0800
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV being discontinued?
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It was never an issue of there not being "enough new customers." The E3 series of pianos are crippled from a network protocol perspective. Every single feature that is exposed, or that I was able to figure out is already implemented in DKVBrowser's support for the E3/DKC-850. Until Yamaha is forced to add new commands to the network protocol in order to support features that they deem important to support *their own applications* (ie. the iPhone app), there can be no further "features" added to DKVBrowser.
Yamaha being "more open" seems like a pipe dream at this point. But, yes, we can certainly hope. :-)
I'd be really interested to know if Bill has any insight into whether or not Yamaha plans to support Android. The mention that the Mark IV line of pianos is still being supported, and will continue to be enhanced was something I honestly didn't expect to hear.
-Kevin
From: kassey22000
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV being discontinued?
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV being discontinued?
Hi Kevin, given this new information on the extension of the E3 series do you think there might be enough new customers to warrant revisiting porting the full features of your marvelous DKVBrowser software to the E3/DKC-850? Maybe Yamaha will be more open with the environment now? The iPhone/iPad applications are sooooo lacking in features compared with the DKVB.
Well we can hope :-)
Well we can hope :-)