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Re: [disklavier] Get Disklavier piano track to MIDI out?

2016-12-18 by Mark Fontana

If your music is on commercial floppy disks, you can extract MIDI or 
ESEQ format using a USB floppy drive and http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu 
running on a Windows PC (you'll need to download a floppy device driver 
from Microsoft if running Windows 10).  If your floppies are all 
self-recorded (your own playing), you probably won't need to use PPFBU; 
the disks should be readable with just Windows and a USB floppy drive.

You should not transfer your music by playing it in real time over 
wireline MIDI.  Not only is this slow, but it will also distort the 
timing and result in a copy that's slightly inferior to the original.

Mark Fontana


On 12/18/2016 05:43 AM, larsmagnus@... [disklavier] wrote:
>
> Before I update hardware to DKC-850 I thought I could try to play and 
> save my old songs and capture them via MIDI out to my ipad. (I don't 
> have a floppy disk) But it seems impossible to send a recorded piano 
> part out via any MIDI out option. Anyone have comments or solutions on 
> this?
>

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