Disklavier

Having just gotten a DKC-850 installed recently, I am still learning it but can take a first pass at answering your questions.

 

1.  No, not necessarily.  If you have the Pianosoft music on a CD, you can put the CD into the 850.  If you have Pianosoft music on floppies, you can connect an external floppy into the USB port of the 850 and play them via that, or you can copy the music from the floppies (riparoot) onto a thumb drive, and play them from the thumb drive plugged into the USB port of the 850.  I use all 3 methods described here regularly.

 

Sorry, not familiar enough with it to answer #2 or #3.

Jon

 

 

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:14 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] DKV-850 and Smart PianoSoft

 

  

I’m thinking about purchasing the DKC-850 for my Mark II XG for a variety of reasons and have a few basic questions.

 

The one area of DKC-850 functionality that I’m the least familiar is with playing Smart PianoSoft disks.

 

1)      I assume the Smart PianoSoft disks need to be transferred to the DKC-850’s internal memory.  Is this accomplished by first copying the Smart PianoSoft disk to a USB flash drive (or USB hard drive) and then coping onto the DKC-850?

 

2)      When playing back a Smart PianoSoft disk along with the prescribed audio CD, will the DKC-850 automatically make any required CD audio pitch adjustments if the CD is not tuned to A440 or does the pitch correction need to made manually? 

 

3)      I noticed that when I select “Mark II with DKV-850” on the YamahaMusicSoft web site, the “Piano Accompaniment for CDs” option is not displayed as a selectable Product Subtype.  Interestingly, “Piano Accompaniment for CDs” is displayed if selecting “Mark III with DKV-850”, “DKC-850” or “Mark IV”.  Anyone know why this is? 

 

Robert