Disklavier

Mark, I will try this as soon as my USB floppy drive arrives. Thanks!

Sam
www.keyboardcollective.com
(212) 684-3304

*(Sent from phone - please excuse brevity and typos.)

> On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Mark Fontana <mark@kinura.net> wrote:
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> I've written a free software tool for Windows that can extract performances from Disklavier and PianoDisc floppies:  http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/
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> It works fine for most people, but occasionally there are low-level problems reading the disks.   This is sometimes caused by deterioration and wear of the disk media.  Other times, it seems like there are issues with particular floppy drives and/or interference from antivirus software.
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> Another way to transfer files from Disklavier floppies, but with more steps, would be to extract the ESEQ files from your diskettes using Root-A-Ripper and then convert them to MIDI files using ESEQ2MID.EXE, both available at Carol Beigel's site:  http://www.carolrpt.com/softwaredwnld.htm
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> Mark
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>> On 01/16/2014 01:25 PM, Sam Kanter wrote:
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>> Question to all: If I buy a cheap, external USB floppy drive and connect to desktop computer, will it be able to read disklavier Pianosoft disks so I can convert to MIDI and play thru MIDI on DK?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Sam Kanter
>> www.keyboardcollective.com
>> (212) 684-3304
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