----- Original Message -----From: Aaron ZornesSent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:11 PMSubject: RE: [disklavier] Re: upgrade pathOur Mark III already has 16MB memory. Is there an upgrade kit that goes beyond that?
A quick web search only found this upgrade snippet:
NAMM 2000: The Disklavier's 1.44MB memory chip is now upgradeable to 16MB.
Thanks!
--Aaron
From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of George F. Litterst
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 7:02 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: upgrade path
Good morning, everyone.
On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:05 AM, athomik wrote:
The only upgrades ever released for Disklaviers themselves, which added extra functionality, were a memory upgrade kit for theMark 3 (?), and a Smart key update. All other software updates were only intended to remove software bugs.
Actually, there have been a number of feature enhancements over the years, including the addition of MIDI Time Code (which makes video-sync recording possible) to Disklaviers whose control units had enough additional memory and support for Type 0 Standard MIDI files in the Mark II.
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Re: [disklavier] Re: upgrade path
2008-04-11 by Carol Beigel
If you have a MarkIII, you have enough memory to
run anything. To use PianoSmart, you need to install the free software on
the Yamaha website for your model DKV. I think the lastest is v4.47 or
4.48. Anything over v4.45 will do for a MarkIII.
Here is how I think PianoSmart works with regular
CDs. There is a beginning mark on each song on any CD. The floppy
disk you buy from Yamaha to play in your Disklavier along with the CD probably
has a MIDI time code or something that marks the beginning of each song.
That is why you must use a specific CD. When you put the CD in the player,
and the floppy disk in the floppy drive, they synchronize so they play
together.
Didn't Spencer or Mark Fontana write a software
program that will work on a PC that does this? I believe you can make your
own CDs with the MIDI embedded that you can play off a laptop and not even need
a DCD1. If so, then you have almost all the capabilities of the
MarkIV!
The other totally cool thing that PianoSmart does
on a MarkIII, but not on an upgrade from an earlier Disklavier, is transposable
audio. I hear this most on my Fiddler on the Roof Pianosmart CD/floppy
set. These people on the original soundtrack are not singing in tune to
A440. Therefore their voices are not matched to my MarkIIXG tuned to
A440. However, on a MarkIII, it will read that their pitch is different,
and automatically adjust the voices and orchestra to A440.
May we all be gratefull we have Disklaviers, and
not.....
Carol Beigel