Disklavier

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 rclerk@... wrote:

> Recently I decided to move a number of MIDI files from my desktop
> computer by burning them to a CD. Since a good number of them
> contained piano as primary instrument, I stuck the CD into my Mark III
> Disklavier but it doesn't seem to recognize anything. I thought it
> should read CD's as well as floppys regarding MIDI files.


Robert, unfortunately the Disklavier cannot directly read data files
from a CD. To make your own CD, you have to convert the MIDI files into
special WAVE audio files containing a control track and burn those to an
*audio* CD.  I wrote a utility to do that conversion:

   http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/

This program batch-converts MIDI files to Disklavier format WAV files.
You then use your favorite CD-burning software to make the CD.

Because storing MIDI modulated as audio is much less efficient than
storing MIDI as data, you will be limited to the playing time of the CD
(74-80 minutes).

Mark