Disklavier

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

----- Original Message -----

From: Aaron Zornes

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:11 PM

Subject: RE: [disklavier] Re: upgrade path

Our 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.

Regards,

PianoBench

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