Disklavier

Hello Everyone,

In a message dated 2/1/02 4:07:58 PM, Ken writes:

<< Just a quick question.  My piano dealer has located a DCD1 CD player 
which will connect directly to my IIXG tone generator.  A major 
reason for purchasing would be the ability to burn MIDI compilations 
direct to CD and bypass the problems of floppy disks. >>

You can certainly add a DCD1 to your Disklavier and play 
commercially-published CDs from Yamaha and other sources. However, you will 
not be able to burn your own MIDI CDs and play them. Yamaha and other 
companies store their MIDI data on the CD in the form of encoded audio tones 
and then decode the audio back into MIDI on playback. At the same time, a 
second pure audio channel is played through the speakers.

The Yamaha system for doing this is the only system that offers full MIDI 
bandwidth at this time, and Yamaha does not make its encoading software 
available.

Regards,
PianoBench