Disklavier

Kevin,

I have been following the status results on your program for using a  
computer as a substitute for the Mark IV's PDA with great interest.  I  
want to thank you for posting your results here and for offering to  
make the software available.  I am definitely interested.

I have owned a DC3M4t since they were introduced into the U.S. in  
November 2004. I have a huge collection of both Yamaha purchased  
software and midi files stored on the 80 GB internal HD of my DC3M4t.   
In fact, I have so much software on the internal HD that it is filled  
and I have not purchased any additional software now for over two  
years while I wait for Yamaha to introduce a larger HD for the Mark IV  
-- something Yamaha appears to show no interest in doing!  I have also  
pleaded with Yamaha through many e-mails to update the software for  
the Mark IV with a keyword search function so that one can find a song  
or artist among such a huge collection as that stored on my internal  
HD.  This, too, has fallen on deaf ears at Yamaha even though such a  
search function is a standard part of any other computer software that  
I have ever owned. It appears that your software will address this  
keyword search function and this alone makes it of great interest to me.

I am delighted to see that individuals like yourself are willing to  
program features of use to Mark IV owners when Yamaha shows a low  
level of interest in doing so. So...thanks and please keep up the good  
work.

Tom

On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Kevin Goroway wrote:

> Well, one might argue that it's much worse, since it doesn't support  
> most of what the PDA does.
>
> It's what it can do (in the near future) that the PDA can't, though,  
> that makes it interesting.
> 1) search for songs and albums.  You know you've got "chopsticks"  
> saved on there somewhere, but you've completely forgotten where.   
> Type in chopsticks, and there it is...Click on it to play.
> 2) Ability to print out a catalog of what you've got stored on your  
> DKV.  Have a large library on there?  Want to present a list of  
> what's available to some visitors?  Hand them the printout.
>
> The list can go on and on...It's also MUCH faster than the PDA, and  
> has a whole lot more screen space to display album/song  
> titles...though (in my case) it requires going to a different room,  
> since I'm not doing this on a laptop. :-(
>
> There's also the following possibility, which I haven't investigated  
> yet.
>
> Let's say you have a large MIDI library on your computer, but you  
> haven't moved it to your DKV (for whatever reason).  You also don't  
> have a MIDI connection between your computer and your DKV.  I think  
> I can let you point the software are a folder filled with MIDI files  
> on the computer, and have the DKV play them.  Here's how I imagine  
> it would work.
> a) computer copies file to the piano's from/to pc folder
> b) computer forces DKV to "refresh" it's from/to pc folder
> c) computer tells DKV to start playing that file
> d) when song is finished, computer removes file from piano's from/to  
> pc folder
> e) lather/rinse/repeat
>
> -Kevin
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