There is software to rip the PD to midi on the computer. I have a few PD and they play as files on my laptop.
Cheers.
Dan
From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:43
PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re:
Disklavier Mark III and Macintosh
Gene
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.
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.
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.
Alan
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