Disklavier

SCOTT and ERIC,

All of this is incredible news!

I am forwarding all of this information to the Disklavier engineers in Japan.

Thanks guys!!

Bill

Sent from my iPhone.

On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:30 AM, <scott.cammack@...> wrote:

Wow, I can't believe all the buzz my posting has generated... I guess there a huge pent-up demand for a solution like Eric originally proposed.

I see that Eric has graciously been addressing many of the questions which were posed since I last logged in here, and want to again give Eric the kudos that he so greatly deserves. Without his guidance I would not have been able to perform the upgrade. The key piece of information is that the original floppy drive uses the Shugart interface (not an IBM-compatible type interface).

A couple of questions that I'd like to address:

Q: How many floppies can you put on the floppy emulator?

A: This really depends upon the size of the SD card that you use. The emulator will currently support up to a 32Gig SD card. Given the size of a DSDD floppy as were originally used in the MX100B (which is 720k) then there is potentially room for over 44,000 floppies (if my math is any good). At any rate, even using a very small SD card, such as 4Gig will provide room for well over 10,000 floppy images. Let's just say that you're not going to be able to find enough music to fill up the SD card! LOL

Q: Does MIDI work with the emulator?

A: YES! This was one of my concerns, and I find that MIDI works just fine with the emulator, since the MX100B thinks that a floppy is actually present in the floppy drive.

I think that Eric has answered the lion's share of the other questions.... But if anyone has more questions then please pose them!

Cheers,

Scott

---In disklavier@...m, wrote:

Scott and Eric, do you have any other comments on the user experience? I am curious as to whether you find that the time to save and load a recording is noticeably shorter.

Thanks,

PianoBench

On Jan 3, 2014, at 4:57 PM, <rkhleunghk@...> <rkhleunghk@...> wrote:

Hi Scott and Eric, can you give me some details please on where you get the floppy drive from Poland, a website link will be good. Also is there any other modification need to be made on the emulator please? How much is the emulator drive please? As I am from Australia and recently bought a second hand Yamaha disklavier MX101R locally and want to see if there is any way to upgrade the current floppy drive. At the moment, the floppy drive still works on my piano.

Thanks and appreciate for your help.

Ray