Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

Glen asked:

<<I have a fairly new DC6A (awesome instrument). However, I would like to 
play an ordinary CD on it and record while I play along. I can't figure out 
how to do it, if its possible. Is it possible?>>

Check out this press release on Yamaha's web site:

http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/pr/trade/NAMM/W02/pr/piano/pianosmart.html

Yamaha demonstrated a new technology at the January NAMM show called 
PianoSmart. PianoSmart makes it possible to record your own piano part while 
listening to an audio CD played in the Disklavier's CD drive. The Disklavier 
will play back both the CD and the MIDI file together and take care of the 
synchronization issues.

This works only with the Mark III series Disklaviers, which means the 
Disklaviers with the letter A in their model number. It does not work with 
other Disklaviers which have a DCD1 CD drive added.

I think that PianoSmart is not yet officially implemented on the Mark III. I 
could be wrong, but I think that this will involve a free flash ROM upgrade 
to existing Mark IIIs and will be available in the summer.

Yamaha has announced that they will add this type of recording to its 
existing software library. Therefore, Yamaha's published Disklavier software 
will consist of piano solos on floppy disk, piano with tone module 
orchestrations on floppy disk, piano and digital audio on CD, and piano with 
digital audio on floppy disk. In the latter case, you buy the piano part on a 
floppy disk and then purchase the commercial CD with which is it coordinated 
from your favorite audio CD store.

Regards,
PianoBench