Disklavier

I can confirm firsthand that the Mark III will play PianoDisc and QRS
Pianomation CDs in addition to Yamaha's own CDs. The display on the
control unit will indicate "QR" when playing a QRS CD and "PD" when
playing a PianoDisc CD.

Yamaha's DCD-1 Disklavier CD player can play these additional formats
as well.

I observed that the Mark III and DCD-1 do not do an optimal job
converting the MIDI expression expression information when playing
PianoDisc CDs, however. PianoDisc CDs use a wider expression range
(1-127) and this range is passed through unchanged instead of being
mapped to a more reasonable range for the Disklavier (say, 24-95). As a
result, PianoDisc CDs may sound rather loud and bangy compared to
Disklavier CDs.

As for QRS CDs, Yamaha's support for them has a few bugs in it, but
they would only show up on CDs that include MIDI accompaniment.
Piano-only QRS CDs should play fine on the Disklavier.

Mark Fontana



On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, sjhart110110 wrote:

> Thanks.  Anyone actually have some of these that can comment?  SJ
>
> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, lee mrowicki <leemrowicki@y...>
> wrote:
> > should be able to play Cd's but not floppies...
> >
> > LEE
> > --- sjhart110110 <sjhart110@h...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Can someone explain which ones of these products
> > > work on my Mark III
> > > Disklavier?  They have diskettes, CDs (some are like
> > > the Pianosoft
> > > audio CDs).  Who has some of these and can confirm
> > > for me?