Disklavier

Does anyone from Yamaha or elsewhere have any idea when this software 
and firmware upgrade may be released?  It is now June and I have heard 
nothing further about either the software or the firmware upgrade for 
the Mark III disklavier required to play it.  

Tom

Thomas N. Wheeler wrote:

> My dealer just returned from a trade show where Yamaha announced a 
> very interesting new technology called PianoSmart.  As I understand 
> PianoSmart it is designed to work with Yamaha CD players in 
> disklaviers such as the DC3A. Again, if my understanding is correct, 
> one simply inserts a commercial CD (not a Pianosoft Plus Audio  CD) in 
> the disklavier's CD player and a PianoSmart floppy disk into the 
> floppy disk player.  The floppy disk contains a recorded piano 
> accompaniment to the commercial CD and the acoustic piano 
> accompaniment will play back in proper timing with the commercial CD. 
>  While this is similar to Yamaha Pianosoft Plus Audio CD's (where the 
> CD has the piano parts recorded as data on the CD along with the 
> instrumental and vocal parts (if any) recorded on the other channel of 
> the CD, it affords several obvious advantages: (1) Yamaha will be able 
> to provide accompaniments to many many commercial CD's.  In fact my 
> dealer has just sent me a listing of Titles in Development for the 
> Smart Pianosoft series and it includes about 150 titles in development 
> now.  (2) One will be able to record their own accompaniments (or hire 
> a competent pianist to do so) for their favorite commercial CD's. (3) 
> The Smart Pianosoft software will be considerably cheaper than the 
> present Pianosoft Plus Audio CD's.  My dealer stated that Yamaha has 
> indicated that this software will be available in June 2002 and will 
> require a firmware (downloadable from the internet) upgrade to the 
> disklavier.  
>
> This is all that I have learned from my dealer about this exciting new 
> technology/software.  I would be pleased if anyone from Yamaha would 
> step in and  confirm or correct any errors in the above information;
>
> Tom
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