Disklavier

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, James Fry wrote:

> I am looking at writing some Java music software that I would like to be
> able to read the ESEQ files saved from my Disklavier (and I believe also
> my SY85 and other synths).
>
> Does anyone know of a file specification anywhere on the internet, or that
> I can get hold of from Yamaha somehow? I've spent a lot of time on google
> and not really come up with anything yet - is it going to be a matter of
> reverse engineering the format myself?


Yamaha released this document a few years back:

   http://dp70.dyndns.org/tmp/eseq_format_spec.pdf

Note that it is missing a few small details, such as the storage of the
two-line LCD titles. So a small amount of reverse-engineering will still
be necessary.

Good luck!

Mark Fontana