Disklavier

Before I run out and test this ...
(I know PianoBench has a 100% track 'good' 
track record on technical advice IMHO),  
is this "theory" or "practice"?
 
Will iTunes not only play the MIDI on my laptop 
sound card, etc. but also output to my MIDI USB 
interface which I would connect to the DK control unti?
 
THANKS!
 
--Aaron in San Francisco
 
 

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of George F. Litterst
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:11 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Making Discs



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
>
>
>