Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

In a message dated 7/9/02 6:54:03 PM, Tony writes:

<< Hi, i have downloaded some of the piano competition midi files 
to my Mac and have tried making floppies for the disklavier, but 
they won't play. comes up as "unformatted disk." I have tried 
formatting the disks as Mac 800k, proDOS 800k, and 
proDOS720k. None of these work. Am I missing something? >>

The DOS720K format is correct, however, your Disklavier does not play 
Standard MIDI Files. Your instrument was designed before SMFs became the 
standard that they are today.

Your alternatives are to:

(1) Add a DSR1 to your Disklavier. This will give you support for SMFs, file 
translation capabilities, an internal tone generator, and support for high 
density disks.

(2) Play these files from your computer which you have appropriately 
connected to your Disklavier with MIDI cables.

(3) Translate the files to E-SEQ using either a DOS (non-Mac) program that 
was written for this purpose or using a DSR1 or modern Disklavier control unit
.

Although the DSR1 is expensive, it will provide you with the most convenient 
solution for this type of problem going into the future.

Regards,
PianoBench