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Re: The future of loading files to play a Disklavier

2018-07-16 by Skanter123

From Carol begel:

“If you do want to upgrade your Disklavier to an IP address,, you can use a $50 wireless Bluetooth cable (MD-BT01) and plug it into both the MIDI In and MIDI Out ports on your Disklavier. Convert what you have on floppy disks to standard MIDI files ASAP. Keep a copy of them on a USB drive as well as upload them to a cloud, i.e. Dropbox or iCloud. Purchase an app, like Sweet MIDI Player to make playlists of your songs. Details at:  midiplayertools.com/Connecting.htm <http://midiplayertools.com/Connecting.htm>”

This is how I’ve been doing it and it works fine - highly recommended! One can easily use the files from the Yamha Signature MIDI Collection as well if you COPY (not OPEN) the MIDI file into Sweet MIDI Player on iPad or iPhone and make sure settings are correct to find the MD-BT01. Unfortunately the settings aren’t remembered and have to be reset each time you use SMP.

Sam Kanter
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