Disklavier

From: "Carol Beigel" <carolrpt@...>

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> The two utilities I use the most to copy DKV disks or adjust the volume of
> the data both use DOS.  The dkvutil and Giebler software both need real
time
> DOS, not DOS windows, to work.  New laptops come with Windows XP or
Windows
> 2000; neither of which have DOS. (Hopefully some Windows XP users will
> correct me if these utilities work on XP systems!)

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Hi Carol,

re: Windows XP:

On my desktop, 'dkvcopy' and XP Home seem to work just fine...

'dkvcopy' does appear to be to try to work on my Dell Latitude 500 Mhz with
XP laptop with one exception: it of course wants immediately to have access
to a floppy drive which my laptop does not have. I use ethernet to have my
laptop 'communicate' with all other drives and devices.

BTW, one thing, the main problem that older Yamaha disklaviers seem to have
is they do not have a fairly priced upgrade path from Yamaha to more
'modern' type technology. Many here still have to find the older 720K disks,
(which are becoming increasingly difficult to find), if you do not have a
MIDI interface you need to use the serial port where according to your post,
the newer PCs do not work with, etc. (a USB interface would be great, much
more flexible than the serial port which is going away.)

This is pretty scarey stuff. You go out and invest anywhere from $10K to
$50K or so for a disklavier which may be literally unusable in the
mid-to-long term future. Are they going to address this?

(And this makes a used disklavier worth much less if the buyer cannot use
the dislavier facilities in it. In which case, we may get 'stuck' with them
at some point in time...)


Danny