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Re: [disklavier] midi conversions?

2002-03-03 by Jeffrey Joos

Hello
  do you happen know that the cost of the unit that
you mentioned would be?  That will be something that I
might have to look into.
thanks
Jeff
--- PianoBench@... wrote:
> Good morning, Everyone.
> 
> In a message dated 3/3/02 11:07:55 AM, Jeff writes:
> 
> << Hello all
>   I have an older upright lavier mx80 series.  I
> have discovered all 
> the the midi files that are available and would love
> to play them on 
> my piano.  I have been able to convert the midi
> files over to .fil 
> files and have made the pianodir on the disk but my
> player still 
> tells me I have an unformatted disk.  I am using 2hd
> disks, is this 
> the problem?  Do I need the double density disks?  I
> have been able 
> to do what I have so far due to this site.  Thanks a
> million
> 
> Jeff >>
> 
> Your particular Disklavier requires double-density
> (DD) disks.
> 
> I would like to offer the suggest that you will have
> a far more enjoyable 
> experience with your instrument if you add a Yamaha
> DSR1 to it. The DSR1 
> looks and functions almost exactly like the control
> unit on a Mark IIXG 
> Disklavier. It connects to your old control unit via
> MIDI. It will give you 
> most of the modern Disklavier features, such as
> support for SMF Type 0 and 1, 
> conversions between both types of SMFs and E-SEQ, a
> built-in tone generator, 
> support for HD disks, et cetera.
> 
> Regards,
> PianoBench
> 


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