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Re: [disklavier] What other manufacturers' discs (beyond Yamaha) are compatib...

2006-11-01 by Carol Beigel

To my knowlege, PianoDisc MIDI files on flopppy disks are in MIDI format 0. Check your advanced manual and check the settings for import files. Make sure R=1 and L=2, or L=Prg.
I hope you are referring to original PianoDisc floppies and not copies. If you have copies, they must be on 2DD 720k disks, and not HD 1.44 disks. What is the model of the control box on your MarkIII?
Carol
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Subject: Re: [disklavier] What other manufacturers' discs (beyond Yamaha) are compatib...

Sorry but that is not correct.
PianoDisc floppies will not play on a Disklavier.
I have about 10 piano disk floppies and I know for sure they will not play on a Mark III.
I also have a few PianoDisc CD's and the Audio part will play but the piano part will not play and all you here is the midi tones. ( it sounds like a fax machine in the back ground.)
Carol please correct me if there is some program change I need to make on my Disklavier in order to play PianoDisc disks.
I also talked to Freddie at Yamaha and he said there is no way of knowing what Piano disks, other then Yamaha, will play on a Disklavier. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't depending on what model Disklavier you have,
Alan

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