Disklavier

I am not as familiar with the MarkIV as the other
models, but I would suggest a few things as these
suggestions resolved this same problem on previous
models:

1) consult your owner's manual to make sure the Keys
are set to "On"
2) Yamaha calls MIDI files Import Files, so check the
owner's manual for that section
3) Piano keys are played by whatever information is on
MIDI Channels 1 and 2, so make sure the piano part is
set accordingly
4) consult your owner's manual and do a system reset
4) call Yamaha tech support

Carol



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Neil" <ulcerdoc@...>
To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Upgrading Disklaviers


> Carol:
>
> I had my Disklavier Mk IV operating system upgraded.
> Since then a lot of midi I downloaded and that played
> fine are now no longer playing on the piano in
coustic
> mode - but only "electronically".  Have you heard of
> this happening before?  Is there a fix?
>
> --- Carol Beigel <thecarolb@...> wrote:
>
> > I am a piano technician who fell in love with
> > electronic player pianos when they were first
> > invented
> > in the early 1980's.  My first one was a
Pianocorder
> > Vorsetzer that used 80 pinball machine solenoids
and
> > a
> > Marantz propriety cassette deck.  You could roll
> > this
> > thing up to any piano, connect the pedal rods to
the
> > top of of the pedals, and have digitized player
> > piano
> > rolls on cassettes play your piano. Yamaha bought
> > this
> > company and the Pianocorder became no more.  I
still
> > have my Vorsetzer and the library of cassette
tapes!
> >
> > MIDI was invented in the early 80's, but every
> > company
> > had their own version.  Yamaha's version was called
> > ESEQ and that was the software that ran the first
> > Disklaviers, the Wagon Grand and the MX100A/B. The
> > solenoid technology was better than the old pinball
> > machines, and laser beams broken by shutters were
> > used
> > to measure hammer and key travel.
> >
> > It wasn't until about 1986 that a standard was
> > agreed
> > upon, and General MIDI came about.  Yamaha came out
> > with the MarkII that could play standard MIDI
format
> > 0
> > files as well as their own ESEQ stuff.
> >
> > Then flash memory was invented.  This made software
> > upgradable by using a floppy disk instead of having
> > to
> > replace a chip on the motherboard.  The MarkIIXG
not
> > only could play standard MIDI files in format 0,
but
> > format 1 as well.  The XG MIDI sounds were the next
> > generation of MIDI sounds as pioneered by Yamaha.
> > They
> > also had incremental pedaling.
> >
> > Then "pulsating" solenoids were invented and they
> > appeared on the MarkIII.  Personally, I think one
of
> > the greatest musical inventions of the 20th century
> > was
> > the transposable audio that came with the MarkIII.
> > You
> > could play a CD with your piano and adjust the
pitch
> > of
> > someone singing!  The MarkIII could play MIDI 0 and
> > 1,
> > plus digital audio, plus it STILL played the ESEQ
> > files
> > that had been invented years earlier.  It's like
> > having
> > Microsoft Office still supporting my Commodore 64 I
> > bought in 1985!  Also with the MarkIII came the
> > piano
> > action special "jacks" that enable silent playing
> > without affecting the touch on your fingers.
> >
> > With a DSR-1 control box and the DCD1  CD player
> > (hardware upgrades), you can upgrade any Disklavier
> > to
> > most of the capabilities of the MarkIII.
> >
> > Now we have the MarkIV that uses different
solenoids
> > that were previously only available in the PRO
> > models,
> > different operating system (Lynux), uses a PDA for
a
> > remote controller, but it STILL plays the old ESEQ
> > floppy disks!  The recordings create twice as much
> > data
> > as the older systems, so it has a hard drive
instead
> > of
> > a floppy disk.  It can also control the loudness
and
> > softness of the piano playing better than any
> > previous
> > models. Most of this is hardware, so you would have
> > to
> > gut your Disklavier electronics and start from
> > scratch
> > to upgrade to MarkIV electronics.  This is not
going
> > to
> > happen.
> >
> > We have come a long way from pinball machine
> > solenoids,
> > and only the Yamaha Disklavier will give you really
> > good quality recordings.  The QRS Patine system,
and
> > the PianoDisc are now incorporating copy protection
> > systems that are a total pain to deal with.  How
> > would
> > like to find out your old library of expensive
music
> > no
> > longer plays on the current product??  At least
> > Yamaha
> > never did that to you!
> >
> > Carol Beigel
> >
> >
> >
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> > Todd's family web site was completely updated
> > 012/22/03.  It contains some fun disklavier content
> > and links to midi sites among many other things,
The
> > url is:
> > http://MuncyFamily.com
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