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Re: Pianodiscs

2005-02-24 by sjhart110110

How about the live/orchestrated CDs?  Like:

http://www.pianodisc.com/emusic/choose_item.asp?
ref_no=120&category=Live/Orchestrated




--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Mark A. Fontana" <mfontana@f...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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?

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