Disklavier

Very useful info. Thanks, Alan!


On 6/7/07 11:43 AM, "ISKI1@..." <ISKI1@...> wrote:

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> As discussed earlier I also have a Mark III. I have thousands of Midi files
> and Yamaha files and I found it overwhelming to organize that many floppy
> disks. I bought a used laptop that I keep connected to the piano with a midi
> to usb cable.
> The laptop is connected to my wireless home network so my piano then has
> complete access to the Internet. If I find a midi file anywhere on the
> Internet I can play it immediately on the piano. If I like how it sounds I
> save it to my harddrive.
> I use both VanBassco player and Yamplayer to build play lists with my favorite
> songs from either Yamaha disks or my collection of midis. So if I don't like a
> song on a disk I don't have to listen to it. I can also select random play.
> The big advantage to these players with regard to your problem of the piano
> being too load is that they have a volume control that lets you reduce the
> volume lower than the Mark III volume control.
> If I have a party I can load enough songs to last the evening and I can set
> the volume to a low enough level that you can have a conversation.
> Also if you have karaoke midi files the lyrics are displayed on the screen.
> Great for Christmas parties or children songs.
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> I also have some older PG. Music that has their own midi players that I can
> play the piano directly from the PC.
> I also have PG music Power tracks and Cakewalk on this laptop and can mix my
> own MP3 or Wav files with midi files.
> So for about $400 I have a lot of the features that a Mark IV has and several
> that are not available on the Mark IV.
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> So after reading about all the issues described in the emails over the last
> few days it seems like this is a very inexpensive solution. Glad now that I
> did not pay the extra $10,000 for the Mark IV.
> However if someone can tell me how to play my library of PianoSoft Smart disks
> and matching CD's from my laptop I would be a very happy camper.
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