Disklavier

Hi Mark

Thanks for the info. It's a shame about the "Program Dependent Area" 
as that is what we need most.  Still the rest is very useful indeed.

Once again thank you

Midi Magic 




-- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Mark A. Fontana" <mfontana@f...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Midi Magic,
> 
> Here is the ESEQ format spec available from Yamaha:
> 
>    http://dp70.dyndns.org/tmp/eseq_format_spec.pdf
> 
> This was freely available by fax from Yamaha customer support not 
long
> ago (no NDA required). I scanned it into PDF format and tried to 
add it
> to the files section on the Yahoo group, but there's not enough 
space
> left there.
> 
> Robert is right about this being pretty terse for a spec.  One of 
the
> biggest holes is that they haven't documented the format of the
> "Program Dependent Area" used by various models of Disklaviers and
> other Yamaha products.
> 
> If the software you're developing will be free or open source, I'm
> willing to provide a C module for reading ESEQ files.
> 
> Rather than writing a complete music player application completely 
from
> scratch, it would save a lot of time to just add ESEQ support as a
> plugin to WINAMP 3, using the WINAMP SDK that Nullsoft provides.  
Then
> you'd get all the playlist support, remote control, skins etc. that
> WINAMP already has for free.  Just an idea.  I've written a WINAMP
> plugin and it was pretty straightforward (the SDK comes with lots of
> sample code).
> 
> Mark Fontana
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, midi_magic2000 wrote:
> 
> > Wanted Eseq file Format.
> >
> > I have a friend who is writing a program for me that will allow 
you
> > to play Eseq ( .fil ) files from the PC.
> > It works like any other "midi" player but this one will play
> > Pianosoft disks. It will allow you to make up playlists on the PC 
and
> > via a midi lead, let you send midi data out from the PC to control
> > the Piano.