Disklavier

George and other members,

I will attempt to answer your questions.

First to Install the Sdcard floppy emulator is fairly simple, even if you have minimal computer or

electronics experience. You power down and unhook your control box from piano. Make sure to note the

power cable and ribbon cable orientation on floppy drive. Simply unplug cables from old floppy drive

and plug into the emulator. Remount with screws and put lid back on. The hardest part on getting

everything to work is formatting and installing files to the sd card, and not that bad since they give

you a program to do that.

Most People have failed in the past, because they have tried to use standard floppy drive emulators.

These will not work because the pinout of the standard pc drive, is not the same as a Shugart drive,

which were out way before pc drives. 3 or 4 of the pinout functions are different, even though the

pinout LOOKS the same.

The program converts the floppy iso file to an Hfe file, which not only includes the floppy image

information but the interface (shugart) information. Therefore the files stored on the sdcard folders

for disks are bigger. You can use up to a 32GB SDHC memory card.(I have an 8GB). With an 32Gb

card you can save over 8000 HD 1.44Mb or 16000 DD floppies. At least I'll never use that Much!

In short in you want to update your old disklavier that uses floppies, this is the ticket. I have an Mx 88

piano, which I Love. The emulator has a display, SD card slot, and three buttons... that's it. When you

power the control box up, the emulator powers up at the same time, and is ready to go. That last disk

you played is loaded. 2 Buttons are used to step and down through the file menu, and one is the select

file (disk) button, its that simple.