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Re: [disklavier] please help a newbie burn floppies DKC100XG

2016-09-20 by Spencer Chase

I'm sure others will answer with questions about floppies but my suggestion is to forget about them unless you have music on floppies that you want to preserve. I don't suppose you are using 78 RPM records for anything other than historical reasons. There are better ways to play the piano, specifically from a small dedicated computer using MIDI files. There are utilities for converting from ESEQ to MIDI if you need to save information from floppies. I believe Mark Fontana has made some utilities for dealing with floppies in the real world unlike others that require you to find some antique computer to run the programs. http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/

If the only thing stopping you from using MIDI files is that they are type 1 instead of 0, there are many conversion utilities including the one my web site on the download page. Mine has a feature that most don't regarding the saving of meta data stored in track names but all should work and some are faster than mine.
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------ Original Message ------
From: "michellelynam@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 9/19/2016 3:52:30 PM
Subject: [disklavier] please help a newbie burn floppies DKC100XG

Hello All,
I'm so grateful to have found this group. I just bought a 1999 DGP1xg Yamaha baby grand. It has a DKC100XG that plays floppies. It also was upgraded at some point adding a CD player DCD1 which is piggybacked in via the midi and analog ports.(I think this fact will prevent me from using the Bluetooth adapter because the MIDI In on the floppy player is occupied with a cable from the MIDI Out port of the CD player)

I have only a handful of CD's and floppies. I'd be so thankful if you could tell me what I am doing wrong trying to create floppies.

I bought an external Floppy Drive an hooked it to the computer. I downloaded zip files in the the E-seq format from http://www.kuhmann.com/Yamaha.htm. The Debussy file had less than 60 songs. I unzipped the file and then dragged it to the external floppy drive. I'm using a 3M high density IBM formatted 1.44MB disk. After making noise for a couple of minutes, the disk appeared to contain the files. However, when I put the floppy in the DKC100xg, the window says "cannot execute."

I tried this from my MAC running OSX El Capitain as well as from a PC laptop running Windows 8. I also tried to do it with the MIDI files on the same website, but I think my DKC100XG needs MIDI 0 not MIDI 1.

I hope there is some obvious mistake I am making and you lovely people can walk me through step by step what I need to do differently.

Thanks so much in advance.

Michelle




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