Good morning Carol
I have a Mark IIXG baby grand. I purchased a piano
soft plus audio CD from Yamaha - I knew my system is not compatible, but I was
going to try to fiddle with the CD.
In this particular recording, I am not interested
in the accompanying audio file (solo voice), but rather the piano part, and I
want to transpose it about a third.
Is it possible to take these tracks off the CD and
put them on floppy for me to use with my current disklavier?
Fraser
----- Original Message -----From: Carol BeigelSent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:22 PMSubject: RE: [disklavier] UPgrade floppy to CDYou cannot upgrade a Mark II to a MarkIII disklavier. However, you can
update any Disklavier to have most of the goodies that are available to play
floppy and CD music available from Yamaha's PianoSoft collection.
The first upgrade is the DSR1 control box which updates a MarkII and earlier
to a MarkIIXG system that provides XG sounds, playing and recording of
standard MIDI files, using both DD and HD floppy disks, flash memory
software updates, and at least 1 memory disk. The second upgrade is the
DCD1 CD player.
The newest upgrade for all systems is Piano Smart - the ability to record,
or playback a prerecorded piano performance, on a floppy disk with the
Disklavier playing along with an audio CD using the MTC (MIDI Time Code).
This upgrade for the MarkIII Disklaviers is now available as version 4.45,
but a new version, 4.46 will have a different loader program. The
PianoSmart update for all other Disklaviers will be available very, very
soon.
In order to run PianoSmart on any Disklavier older than a MarkIII, you will
need to have 8 meg of memory. Don't rush to obtain this memory until Yamaha
releases its final instructions and the list of CDs that will sound the best
on DKVs that are not MarkIIIs. You probably already have the required
memory if the model number of your control box has a "W" in it, i.e.
DKC500RW; or has Smart Key; or EMK-1; or is running a 2.22 version of the
software. For those of us with MX100IIXG running version 1.44 of the
software, we will need the memory upgrade in the form of a new control
board. The price and distribution of this hardware will be released by
Yamaha soon. Don't do anything, now!
What the MarkIII brought to Disklaviers was built-in audio (people singing
on CDs) that is transposable, built-in Ensemble sounds with speakers, 16
different memory disks, and included the Smart Key and Silent features built
in. Two of these features cannot be upgraded to - the Silent system and
transposable audio. MarkIIIs can compensate if the pitch of the audio CD is
not the A440 standard; older models cannot. Therefore, Yamaha will be
providing a list the of the PianoSmart CDs that will sound best for your
listening enjoyment! Back in the olden days when so much of this audio was
created, there was not digital audio. The pitch is at the mercy of the
motor speed on the tape drive the original analog signal was recorded.
Also, a song could be speeded up to make it fit on a vinyl record or CD.
Recording studios don't always get their pianos tuned, etc. Whatever the
reasons, many audio CDs and cassette tapes do not produce a true, standard
pitch. It is amazing that the technology has come so far that the MarkIII
does what it does so easily!
The rest of us will just have to keep being creative!
Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...
>From: Joe ;
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: "'disklavier@yahoogroups.com'"
>Subject: RE: [disklavier] UPgrade floppy to CD
>Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:04:58 -0400
>
>Can I upgrade my Mark II to a III? And how do I find out how much memory I
>have?
>
>I already have the DCD1.
>
>
>
>Joseph F. Bert, CFP
>
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