Disklavier

I wen to Best Buy and bought a floppy disc drive for $70.00 and attached it the the KDC850 and it works great.  I also use the USB stick as well.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Carol Beigel <carol@...> wrote:
>
> There is a problem with that.  Yamaha copy protection scheme will NOT allow you to:
> 
> 	copy a PianoSoft disk to a USB stick
> 	copy a PianoSoft disk to the FromToPC folder
> 	copy PianoSoft disks to CDs
> 
> The only way I have found to get your pianosoft floppies into the Memory is to use a USB floppy disk drive.
> 
> I figure if you can afford the $1500 for the DKC-850 you might save yourself a lot of time and trouble and just buy their USB Floppy Disk drive.
> 
> You can, however, convert your ESEQ disks to standard file formats using Giebler, DKVutils or Root a Ripper, then use the converted disks to place files on USB sticks, folders on a computer, etc.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> Carol Beigel
> 
> On Sep 3, 2012, at 3:13 AM, tintinlad320 wrote:
> 
> > I found this in the operating manual:
> > 
> > You can add a Disklavier piano performance you recorded or on 
> > commercially available SmartPianoSoft software to the playback of songs 
> > on your favorite CDs. 
> > 
> > So its ok i guess; I wont have the diskettes reader unit so probably I'll have to copy the floppy to the pc and from there on on a usb stick I'll choose the 
> > appropriate file...
> > 
> >
>