Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

In a message dated 3/1/03 9:39:55 AM, markpace@... writes:

<< I recently bought a yamaha piano with a disklavier mpx100IIxg and I 
purchased Giebler's Yamaha Disk Manager.  The yamaha manual talks 
about midi files but not how to convert them for the disklavier.  The 
Giebler software shows nothing about midi files. How do I convert 
midi's to a 3" floppy for the disklavier?  Thanks much >>

You don't need to convert anything in order to play MIDI files on your IIXG 
Disklavier. The IIXG and subsequent models plays both the older, Yamaha 
format called E-SEQ and Standard MIDI Files (SMF) Type 0 and 1.

The main issue regarding MIDI files that were not authored on the Disklavier 
is whether the Disklavier will automatically play the piano track(s) on the 
Disklavier or play them on its built-in tone generator. I recommend the 
following setting on the Disklavier:

--press Function
--select MIDI Setup and press Enter
--select PianoPart and press Enter
--press the Right Arrow button 3 times to get to the next screen
--set L=PRG and R=PRG
--press Stop to exit

With this setting, the Disklavier will guess correctly 95% of the time.

Regards,
PianoBench