Disklavier

Bill - do you have any complimentary guest passes for NAMM for Yamaha dislavier owners?


Kind regards


Bob Jellen
25232 Prado Del Misterio
Calabasas, CA 91302


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Brandom <BBrandom@yamaha.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33 am
Subject: RE: [disklavier] Request for better network functionality


























    

                  










Hi Rich,



 



Yes it is still in the works. Can’t say much more but if you get
a chance, come to NAMM in January.



 



Bill



 



Bill Brandom



Senior Technical Manager



Keyboard Division



Yamaha Corporation of America



Phone: 714-522-9417 FAX: 714-522-9301



 



 



 









From:
disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Freeman
Richard

Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:54 AM

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [disklavier] Request for better network functionality









 







Bill,






 









You mentioned previously that upgrades for pre Mark IV
Disklavier's was also in the works - considering that the DCD1 is no longer
available. Is this still on track?









 









Thanks in advance,









 









Rich Freeman









 









On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Bill Brandom wrote:





























 









Hello everyone,



 



Over a month ago I went to
Japan to discuss the next version update for the Disklavier Mark IV. Before I
went, I had assumed I would be able to report to the group of the new functions
that are planned in Version 4. This update is scheduled for release in the
spring.



 



After much discussion with
our Japanese Sales and Engineering staff, they have requested that I do not
make any announcements at this time. We plan to be showing a beta version of
the update at the upcoming NAMM show in January. As we have done in the past,
we will establish a beta group to test new functions.



 



I apologize for not being
able to give you any information at this time.



 



Bill



 



Bill Brandom



Senior Technical Manager



Keyboard Division



Yamaha Corporation of
America



Phone: 714-522-9417 FAX:
714-522-9301



 



 



 









From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Kevin Goroway

Sent: Tuesday, October 20,
2009 3:59 PM

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [disklavier]
Request for better network functionality









 





















Hah! 
I think you give me too much credit.  I don't believe for a second that I
have any power what-so-ever to "nudge" Yamaha.  I think that
they do what they do because they really do want the DKV to stay the world's
greatest piano.  (Afterall, I've only had my piano for 2 years now...they
did plenty before I was around!)



I do admit that I listen very carefully to suggestions for how Yamaha can
improve the piano, and immediately try to figure out how I might be able to
provide the same thing.  DKVBrowser exists for one reason, and one reason
only.  When I bought my piano, there was no "Search"
functionality built in.  I found that unacceptable, and set out to fix it. 
If I had bought my piano one year later, when "search" had already
been added, I'm not sure what might have pushed me toward trying to figure this
all out.



Anyway, thanks...This made me smile.  But, yeah!  What happened to
the information about a forthcoming version?









 















From: Glenn R. Smutny <G.SMUTNY@...>

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tue, October 20,
2009 6:05:25 PM

Subject: RE: [disklavier]
Request for better network functionality



 









With all due respect to Yamaha and
particularly the “face” that we all know and are thankful to have in our
corner– Bill Brandom, I love the way Kevin unintentionally but
effectively keeps nudging Yamaha to continue with their commitment to making
sure the DKV stays the world’s greatest piano. By the way, weren’t we supposed
to be hearing something about a new release about a month ago?



 



Thank you both for all that you do for us.
    



 















From: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com [mailto: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com ]On
Behalf Of Kevin Goroway

Sent: Tuesday, October 20,
2009 4:39 PM

To: disklavier@yahoogro
ups.com

Subject: Re: [disklavier]
Request for better network functionality






 



 


















Hmm,
your 4th (and most important) request could be an interesting DKVBrowser
feature...



Of course, it would mean that a PC would have to be on and running DKVBrowser
while you were using that feature, but maybe that would be acceptable?



I suppose it makes sense to wait and see what Yamaha delivers in this next
promised release, but I don't think it would be difficult for me to implement
this... Basically, you point DKVBrowser at a directory, and tell it to play the
MIDI files in there...it would seamlessly place them on the piano, and start
playing...in the background, it could move the next file there, and when the
first file is done, it can automatically remove it and place the third file there. 
I already have the code to detect when a song is "finishing" since I
needed that for the "source random" feature.  Hmm...



-Kevin









 















From: mjburby <mark.burby@gmail. com>

To: disklavier@yahoogro
ups.com

Sent: Tue, October 20,
2009 12:49:52 PM

Subject: [disklavier]
Request for better network functionality



 






Hi



Not sure if this has been posted about before, but one feature I would LOVE to
see implemented on a future version of software is the ability for the
Disklavier to be able to access files from a networked hard drive. Having
access to networked hard drives offers many benefits including elimination of
storage limitations, stream music direct from the remote storage to the piano
over the network, cleaner backup of the internal hard drive, ability to manage
files better, no need to physically attach anything (USB stick USB hard drive
or CD) to the Disklavier other than the network cable which nearly all of us
have already.



Currently, the PRC has been programmed so that you don't get to chose which
locations it looks in, the PRC has these preset; you click on CD to access the
CD drive, USB for the USB port, and FromToPC to access the FromToPC folder on
the Disklavier hard drive. I appreciate that this is to enhance usability and
make things less complex but access to a directory list of music locations
accessible to the disklavier would not phase too many people out. If necessary,
this could be tucked away in the Setup section.



Firstly I would like to be able to list drives such as the CD, floppy, USB, and
hard disk as a list, and drill into the directory structure of each.



Secondly, I'd like the ability to add network drives to this list.



Thirdly, I'd like to be able to have the facility to move/copy files from one
location to another e.g. from my disklavier hard drive to my network drive or
vice versa



Fourthly (and most importantly) , to have the ability to play music stored on a
network drive directly, streaming it real time over the network (this could be
buffered in the disklavier much as the internet radio streams do) to basically
obviate the need for the attached hard drive.



I don't think I'm asking for too much - the functionality is there but the UI
on the PRC doesn't give you access to it.



Providing this functionality effectively eliminates the issue of the built in
hard disk space limitation and provides a cleaner way to ensure that the
disklavier hard drive is backed up.



Please please Yamaha implement this high value, low effort facility.