Everyone,
Finally I am now using a laptop for my Disklavier using midi interface. I only have one question-� Why is it that� whenever I stop the play in Vanbasco Player my piano stops with a continous humming sound and the keys of the piano is deppressed, looks� like� the� piano hungs? but� when I play it again it plays normal.�� Will the deppressed keys bad for the solenoid or disklavier itself? Pls help.
Allan
>From: "Mark A. Fontana"
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To:
>Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: difference in CD and floppy drives
>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:38:11 -0500 (CDT)
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>On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 Aaron Zornes wrote:
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> > I found my MIDIMAN Tape Recorder Interface unti and manual in my
> > garage last week.
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> > Care to test it out for Disklavier use?
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> > I know a number of us woudl love to get our floppies onto a CD or
> > two instead of the mish-mash of floppie disks we have.
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>I would be interested in the opportunity to examine the MidiMan
>converter (Aaron, I'll contact you via email) but as PianoBench has
>stated, the MidiMan/QRS/ConcertMaster format is different from and
>inferior to the encoding used by Yamaha.
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>I'd also like to clarify one point- encoding to this format won't
>eliminate having to use a pile of discs. Encoding the MIDI into a CD
>audio channel still limits you to the playing time of the CD. That's
>around 80 minutes with today's CD-Rs. My point is, with this scheme you
>cannot copy *650 MB* of MIDI files onto a single CD, but rather only *80
>minutes* of music at a time.
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>What we really need is for the Disklavier to support reading MIDI and
>ESEQ files from data CDROMs with Joliet extended filenames. That would
>let you do what you want... put a huge archive of MIDI files on a single
>CD.
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>A competing solenoid player piano system- the Baldwin ConcertMaster,
>already DOES have the ability to play from data CDs. Yamaha might be
>holding back on such a feature for technical reasons or concerns about
>piracy.
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>As others have said- currently the best way for Disklavier owners to
>manage a large music library is to use a separate laptop computer.
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>Mark Fontana
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