If the Yamaha floppies are missing a boot sector, are there any utilities that will allow a copy and back up of such a floppy? After paying a not - too - trivial amount of mony for such a flimsy Yamaha floppy, I'd hate to loose the data on it and not have a backup to replace it.
I just recently received the Sibelius software. I havent had a chance to examine it yet, but suspect that I should be able to the splice & dice activity with it as well. If not, I'll definitely look into the software you mentioned.
thanks,
ron
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
From: PianoBench@...
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:32:48 -0400
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Playing the L hand vs R hand
Good afternoon, everyone.
Yamaha-published floppies are missing a boot sector. That is why your computer offers to format the disk.
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On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:35 PM, ron8100 wrote:
George, I like your manual splicing technique. Which software do you use for that? Because hand positions can easily overlap and cross any pre-designated split point, i'd prefer not use a preset split point to split L vs. R, but I can see how that could be useful, depending on the particular situation.
For years I have used Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer on the Macintosh. More recently I have also use Steinberg's Cubase. Another good Mac sequencer (and low cost) is Sagan Technologies' Metro.
Popular sequencers on Windows that have a graphic or piano roll view include Cubase and Cakewalk Sonar.
Carol, you're right. As you mentioned, the piece needs to be originally recorded on separate tracks, or post processed after the fact with software, like George described above. You have nice set of utilities on your website. Does any one of them read a protected Yamaha floppy that's used for playback with CD sync? When i try to read that floppy, so that i can back it up to my hard drive, I get a drive read error & the PC thinks the floppy is not formatted and asks me if I want to format it.
Steve, I also have a Clavinva but didn't know that it came with the midi files of the book "Worlds Greatest 50 Songs". I have that book, but i don't believe i have the midi files. I would gladly appreciete that - I'd love for u to a copy of that to me so i can try it out on the clavinova. It'll probably work on the disklavier, too i bet.
Of course one should consider the copyright issue.
Regards,
PianoBench