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Re: Disklavier III

2005-07-18 by George F. Litterst

Good afternoon, everyone.

On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Steinbrink@... wrote:

Of a half dozen disks I downloaded from the Piano-e-competition, only one of them worked when I put it is the Disklavier drive. I now realize that I probably needed to un-Zip the files first, but when I do un-Zip them, I get a message that the disk does not have enough room. Do I need to save the unzipped files to the PC and then copy them one-by-one to individual disks? The formatting on the Yamaha downloads is not recognized by my PC. What is going on?

Have you achieved success with this?

The procedure is:

(1) Download the .zip archives.

(2) Copy the files out of the archives to a floppy disk.

The P-e-C offers the files in 3 formats:

E-SEQ
--for older Disklaviers (i.e. pre-Mark IIXG)

Enhanced Standard MIDI Files
--for Mark IIXG and later Disklaviers

--XP
--for all models of Disklavier Pro

Since you have a Mark III, I suggest using the Enhanced Standard MIDI files. If memory serves me correctly, the contensts of each .zip archive of the Enhanced files should fit onto a high density disk. Copy everything, including any directory files.

Regards,
PianoBench

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.