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Re: midi conversions?

2002-03-04 by midi_magic2000

Hi Jeff

May I just say. Don't forget to save your .fil files to your hard 
disk or even to CDrom as a BACKUP. As floppies have a habit of 
loseing their data at the best of times even more so when they have 
been cross formated ie 1.44 as 720

Midi Magic


--- In disklavier@y..., Jeffrey Joos <jjoos99@y...> wrote:
> 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@a... 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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