Disklavier

Keep in mind this device would NOT have a network interface.  It would
offer strictly an audio input (stereo RCA jacks) and an audio output
(another pair of RCA jacks to pass accompaniment to powered speakers),
plus a MIDI output to connect to the piano.  There would be no remote
control, no screen, and no user interface.

You could feed the device from whatever audio source you like (MP3
player, laptop computer, wireless link, etc.)

Normal PianoSoft Plus Audio CDs could be played by either connecting a
CD player directly to the inputs, or by ripping them to WAV files and
playing them from a laptop or MP3 player.

Playing PianoSmart material would require pre-combining the CD and MIDI
files on the computer side with MID2PianoCD, then sending a stereo audio
stream to the piano.

MIDI files could be played by encoding them to the required audio signal 
using MID2PianoCD.

All this conversion business would only need to be done ONCE.  From that
point on, you'd simply be playing the resulting file on your MP3 player
or in iTunes etc.

Playing the Disklavier from an iPod seems about as wife-friendly as you 
can get.

Mark Fontana
 

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Jim. Phillips wrote:

> Me, too!

> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Joseph F. Bert, CFP, AIF
> 
> If you can do all but the PDA interface, I would be thrilled!
> 
>  
> 
> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Mark Fontana
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:39 PM
> To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Yamaha Introduces Disklavier Mark III Upgrade
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> What are the Mark IV features you would most like to see in an upgrade
> kit for older Disklaviers? Would it be enough to have a device that
> supports playing Yamaha (and competitors') CDs from a CD or MP3 player,
> plus support for streaming music from a laptop or PC (including
> Disklavier Radio)?
> 
> Or is the tablet/PDA interface absolutely essential?
> 
> My person opinion is that the expensive tablet and PDA hardware (though
> cool today) will be hopelessly obsolete in just a few years, so an
> upgrade based on adding so-called "analog MIDI" inputs would be the most
> future-proof way to go. This would let you operate your Disklavier from
> any current or future audio source, including MP3 players, wireless
> links, central home audio systems, streaming from the Internet, etc. 
> Analog audio inputs on a Disklavier would work even 25 years from now
> when USB and wireline MIDI are long-dead relics from the past.
> 
> Mark Fontana
> 
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