Disklavier

Tom, you are my target audience. :-)

I've had my DC3M4t for about 3 weeks now, and it has almost no software on it since it's being swapped out for a new one from Japan as soon as it gets here via a slow boat. :-(

Do you have a wireless card on your pc, or a laptop with a wireless card?

A prerequisite for this software to work is that your computer can see the wireless network that your piano presents to the PDA and tablet.  On my PC, it was more than happy to tell me that it found the network...have you seen anything like that?  Have you tried to search for it?

You've inspired me to get the search feature finished next (not that interesting to me since my piano mostly has the demo songs on it!).  It also seems like a full hard drive is yet another reason to be able to play songs off of the computer instead.

-Kevin

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Wheeler <tnwheeler@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:43:07 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Alternative to tablet and PDA for MKIV









  


    
            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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