hi jean,
i too have problem with this program.� using the pianodisk format, i couldn't play it in my mother- in-law's qrs pianomation piano. according to the "author", he will update this program over the winter.
bob
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>From: "Jean Debefve"
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] homemade pianodisk on DKV won't play
>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:39:37 -0000
>
>Hi all
>
>I tried to burn a CD with Mark Fontana's midtopianoCD software, and
>did not succeed in having it play on my DU1A Yamaha upright, equipped
>with the latest system update.
>I used the pianodisk��format, and burned it on a sound CD, closing it
>carefully. But it will just play some notes, let some others stuck,
>with no relationship whatsoever with the original midi files.
>
>As I guess the software (http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/ -a
>shareware) might not be in cause, I have three hypotheses :
>
>1\ufffd) I am dumb and miss some important point...��(Although I seem to
>follow the instructions. I use Nero 5.5 for burning, and Sound Forge
>to take care of the .wav files��when I try to add something onto the
>CD's blank left track.) Could also be a matter of Type 1 versus Type 0
>format but the pianodisk format is said to read and play both.
>
>2\ufffd ) the yamaha CD drive doesn't read homemade CD's - a way to protect
>them from "illegal" copy;
>
>3\ufffd) the Mark III system��does not read pianodisk CDs if not configured
>to do so. But then I could not find a hint��about this in the yamaha
>doc...
>
>Has anyone encoutered the same problem ? Has anyone succesfully played
>an original Pianodisk CD on a MarkIII system ? Has anyone tried to
>copy a Pianosoft CD or Pianodisk CD and have them play ?
>
>
>Regards
>Jean Debefve
>
>
>
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