Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

Another alternative, on pre-Mark IV Disklaviers, is to use a Windows  
computer and iTunes as the library/playback program for your  
collection of MIDI files.

Regards,
PianoBench

On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Mark Fontana wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Aaron Zornes wrote:
>
> > It is maddeningly difficult (some say impossible for mere  
> mortals) to copy
> > tens, hundreds, or thousands of MIDIs onto CD-ROM for use onto  
> Disklavier.
> >
> > Has any one cracked the secret yet to making Mark II, II or IV  
> series read
> > standard CD-ROMS as file directories as the system does standard  
> floppies?
>
> There is no secret to figure out; this feature is simply not  
> present in
> the Disklavier's firmware (at least not in the Mark II and III  
> models).
>
> It would be extremely difficult for a third party to implement  
> support for
> reading data CDs without Yamaha's source code and development  
> environment.
> And even then, I doubt anyone would be willing to PAY a third party to
> develop this enhancement, so it would be a labor of love. Our best  
> bet is
> to continue to express interest in this feature to Yamaha.
>
> Without iPod-style hierarchical navigation, I personally think this
> feature would be of limited use once the number of tracks on the disc
> grows larger than a few dozen.
>
> Perhaps a better solution would be to hack an MP3 player to support
> playback of MIDI files, converting them on the fly to "analog MIDI"  
> output
> through the headphone jack. That would solve the large library  
> navigation
> problem, plus you could also store MP3 files of Pianosoft Plus  
> Audio CDs
> in the same playlist.
>
> Mark Fontana
>
>
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