Disklavier

Hi Mark,


We talked quite a bit several years ago when I wanted to convert my Pianocorder cassettes to something that would work on my Live Performance player (guess the correct abbreviation for that is LX?) The files I received from you worked great but then I moved and while I still have all those Pianocorder files (hopefully they are still good) I have never been able to connect the LX directly to the automation computer which was how they were controlled in the old house.


I have all the Yamaha discs that Terry Cutshall had. He was severely ill and near death but has made a remarkable recovery. Because of his illness he sold off his Yamaha piano and wanted to dispose of all his Yamaha discs so I took them hoping to be able to convert them to play on my LX. Judging from the several people that have responded to my request I am wondering if it wouldn’t be easier to just put the files on a dedicated iPad and run them from the iPad rather than burn them on CDs. Incidentally,  need to pay him for the disks…do you have any idea how to evaluate their worth?


My LX is installed in a Steinway C grand and also plays from a Wurlitzer theatre organ I have installed in the house. It took some convincing but Wayne finally  sent me a CD that took out the ½ second time delay in the MIDI system so the piano plays great from the organ…expression and all.


But I digress, As I said in the posting on the Diskalvier list I have about 150 Yamaha discs in their original  “CD” like jewel cases which I would like to convert. When I saw he discs I thought they were CDs as they were in  the CD jewel cases. Terry did give me a USB floppy drive to convert them but I didn’t realize that 95% of the cases had a floppy disks in them.


Anyway, that is where I am at, I certainly would appreciate any help you can provide.


Cheers,


John


702 767 8772


From: Mark Fontana mark@... [disklavier]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:42 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] conversion of floppy discs


 


Hi John,


You can do it using this software to read the floppies:
http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/


followed by MID2PianoCD to transcode the tracks to LX format:
http://www.kinura.net/mid2pianocd/


The time-consuming part is keying all the title/composer/pianist information into PPFBU as you go.  But if you do that, you'll get perfectly-tagged (annotated), ready-to-use MP3 files out of the conversion by MID2PianoCD.


Contact me offline before you start and I may be able to save you some time.  I've already converted hundreds of floppies for use on more modern systems, so I have a lot of the metadata on hand already.  Too bad there's no central repository for this information the way there is for ripping music CDs.


Mark Fontana




On 04/13/2017 11:48 AM, johnledwon@... [disklavier] wrote:
 
I recently acquired from a friend about 150 Yamaha Disklavier floppy discs and want to convert them to play my Live Performance player. (It can play any of the digital piano systems…hopefully!) Unfortunately when I put a disc into the USB floppy drive on my computer I get a message that the “Disk media is not recognized. The disc may not be formatted.”
 

Is there a program available that will allow my computer to read these Yamaha disks and copy the files to my computer so I can burn a CD to play on my Live Performance player.
 
Thanks,
 
John Ledwon, Henderson, Nevada