Disklavier

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the information. It worked perfectly. Thanks too for 
the idea about using an Excell spreadsheet to track the conents of 
each "disk".

Have a Happy Holiday!

Pat
--- In disklavier@y..., "Thomas N. Wheeler" <tnwheeler@n...> wrote:
> I am assuming that since you said that you purchased a 16 MB memory 
> upgrade that you are working with a Mark II disklavier.  The EMK1 
memory 
> upgrade kit allows you to store 1 MB of  music files in each of 16 
> memory slots that are named by Yamaha  0-9 and A-F. (Memory 
architecture 
> in Mark II units is slightly different and allows approximately 
1.42 MB 
> of music to be stored in each slot until a total of 16 MB has been 
> stored.)  Loading the songs one at a time  into each memory is easy 
> (albeit tedious).  Simply press the "Function" button on the front 
of 
> your disklavier's control box,  and use the left and right cursor 
arrow 
> buttons to navigate to the Song Copy  function.  Press "Enter" and 
you 
> will then be able to select the memory slots and the song that you 
wish 
> to copy into memory from the floppy disk that you inserted in the 
> control unit following the prompts on the LCD of your control 
unit.  You 
> can also copy entire disks at once to memory using the Disk Copy 
function.  
> 
> As far as keeping track of what has been stored in memory, I have 
found 
> that a convenient way to do this is to prepare an Excel spread 
sheet 
> that lists all of the songs in each memory slot along with the song 
> number in that slot.  Using this, it is an easy matter to navigate 
to 
> the song you are looking for in the memory.  Of course, the Excel 
spread 
> sheet can be sorted and printed out in any number of ways. For 
example, 
> you may wish to print out the Excel spreadsheet of your memory 
contents 
> organized by musical type (classical, popular, etc.) or by artist.  
All 
> of these things can be done if you prepare the spreadsheet with the 
> appropriate columns of data and then use the sort feature.  
> 
> Tom