2008-10-22 by Claude Renaud
George, ... Ok, thank George, the problem was the words x64 Edition SP2 which I did not really know what OS it concerned... Regards, -- Claude Renaud
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2008-10-22 by Carol Beigel
Logic Studio ($500) and Logic Express ($199) work just fine in OS X. I am running Logic Studio on an iMac with Leopard. Your Mark II Disklavier will play
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2008-10-22 by dcgreenhfx
Does anyone have surefire way to make a wireless internet connection for my Mark IV?
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2008-10-21 by George F. Litterst
Good evening, everyone. ... Claude, there are 32-bit Windows drivers on that page: --USB-MIDI Driver for Windows(R) Vista/XP(x64 Edition SP2) This is works for
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2008-10-21 by Claude Renaud
George, ... On the page you give, there is no drivers for 32-bit windows platforms, normal ? Regards, -- Claude Renaud
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2008-10-21 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. Bill, you can get any of several sequencers for the Mac: Cubase (a Yamaha product from Steinberg: www.steinberg.net), Digital Performer
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2008-10-21 by Jules
Hi Bill, I posted this online about 10 days ago, but not sure if you saw it. There is a Canadian dealer just outside of Toronto - Steve Loates Music Gallery
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2008-10-21 by comecerebros
Does anyone have any piano versions from the Chicago band they could post? Thanks in advance!
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2008-10-21 by boyler1999
Hello, I have a Mark II Disklavier with a broken 720 KB floppy drive. First I thought I could simply replace the floppy drive with a new one. Then I learned
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2008-10-18 by Phil Blah
Hey Mark, Yeah I am a bit annoyed at the cost per song. up to $4.50 per song!! in Australia our $ is crap at 70c per USD so it costs heaps. I am also annoyed
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2008-10-18 by Phil Blah
Hey Athomik, Well, that s the whole point of a forum like this, it s for those who want to get involved in the tech aspects of their pianos :) There is nothing
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2008-10-17 by Mark Burby
I d like to discuss the options for purchasing music from Yamaha. Currently, the only option is to purchase the music (say after hearing it on Yamaha Radio) by
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2008-10-17 by Kevin Goroway
Mark, I think you are right. USB would be a perfectly reasonable solution, so let s talk about what s wrong with the current implementation, and what Yamaha
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2008-10-17 by Mark Burby
I think athomik makes a good point. I recently puchased a MKIV and am far from a professional piano player and using it as a high end entertainment system -
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2008-10-17 by athomik
If there was a problem with a hard drive when the Mark IV first came out, even Yamaha Service in most countries had to either clone a good drive to it or
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2008-10-17 by Phil Blah
Kevin, I clone drives for a living, it s cool mate ;-) FYI: I used a trusty copy of Ghost, it boots in DOS and it handles linux, mac, anything. That s ofcorse
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2008-10-17 by Kevin Goroway
Phil, You didn t do any of this disk cloning or expanding under Windows did you? That would be bad. Windows likes to mark the drive s boot sector...Have you
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2008-10-16 by Phil Blah
Hi, Cool well that explains why as much as I tried I could not get a fresh install working. I bet those images we have can be used or are not too far off to
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2008-10-16 by sjhart110110
You can not do this. Yamaha needs to come out with a replacement control box for the Mark III pianos. You would swap out your current control box for the new
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2008-10-16 by athomik
The Mark IV has XG voices (self-explanotory) and AWM (Advanced Wave Memory, which is the sampled piano sound). It hasn t got the TG voice set, but it does have
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2008-10-16 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. ... This is actually possible if you are willing to undertake a complicated setup: --use a MIDI cable to connect MIDI Out to MIDI In
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2008-10-16 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. ... Just to be clear: There are MIDI file formats and then there are MIDI protocols for setting the correct sounds. Modern Disklaviers
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2008-10-16 by athomik
On the Mark IV, the sensors are also used during playback (DSP servo control), which was previously only available on the old Pro series. On the NEW PRO, you
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2008-10-16 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. ... The record and playback systems are separate. During recording, key sensors and (in the case of DC3 and larger grands and DU1A)
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2008-10-16 by Dan Armstrong
Can somone confirm that the devices that actuate the keys in the play mode are different from the devices that function from the keys in the record mode?
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2008-10-16 by Adrian Thomas
Hi, the update CDs (any version) don t contain the full operating system, only those bits required to implement the changes for the new version. If a drive
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2008-10-16 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. ... Interesting and a coincidence. I can tell you that the Virtual PRC was in development for sometime before it was mentioned
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2008-10-16 by Adrian Thomas
As was mentioned in a previous thread, MIDI information on Yamaha PianoSoft plus Audio is recorded as a .wav file on the CD, which means that you can t write
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2008-10-16 by sjhart110110
Still waiting for Yamaha to send out this announcement! :) I stopped by my local Yamaha dealer and chatted with the sales folks who sold me the Mark III that
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2008-10-16 by Phil Blah
Excellent Point Kevin, Say a hi-res 256 MP3 you could say is virtually losless, but SO much more efficient...10 meg per song rather than 50+! Also one really
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2008-10-16 by Kevin Goroway
Bill, You might also mention to them that they could solve this via software by using something other than raw .WAV for CDs...It would be much simpler than a
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2008-10-16 by Phil Blah
Hey Guys, Yeup, I wanted the primary storage to be larger, external devices are clunky and seeky when used with the Disklavier.. Having the main HD larger will
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2008-10-15 by Bill Brandom
Hello Tom, Glenn and others, I am Japan at the moment and will be meeting with our Disklavier engineers today and tomorrow. I will once again stress to them
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2008-10-15 by Tom Wheeler
Glenn, Thanks for adding one more vote for a large internal HD drive for the Mark IV. The problem cannot be solved by adding an external USB drive. In fact,
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2008-10-15 by Glenn Smutny
First of all, thank you Phillip for taking the lead in this. This is exactly the type of information that I remain a member of the group looking/waiting for.
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2008-10-15 by Tom Wheeler
Philip, I am not an IT person so I can t really answer your question. I can, however, say that for over two years I have been requesting a larger HD than the
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2008-10-15 by JORGE FERNANDEZ
Bob. Some Yamaha s MIDI File formats for DKV just have extra information that not all DKVs can decode, this extra information is put there when you Record a
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2008-10-15 by Dokhanchi
I just realized that. theer is really no need to put files on a CD if there is a floppy. I might as well connect the laptop if I really need it. Thanks Now
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2008-10-15 by ISKI1@aol.com
You can put Midi files on a CD that plays on a Disklavier. http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/ The midi files are converted to wav files so you can only put
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2008-10-15 by JORGE FERNANDEZ
Following Carol s comments, all off ... All are pure MIDI standards not exclusive to DKV s, so all of them should play fine in a Mark III, given that the
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2008-10-15 by Phil Blah
Hey Guys, If you are not a tech person then please ignore this message ;-) I am sick of the slow and small 80gb death star in the mark4, so I decided to
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2008-10-15 by Dokhanchi
Thank you. Very helpful. Quite new to this stuff. Bob Dokhanchi ... From: Carol Beigel Subject: Re: [disklavier] Which MIDI format
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2008-10-14 by Carol Beigel
MIDI format 0 and MIDI format 1 will play on your Disklavier. The XG sounds are the best on your list and Yamaha developed them! GM stands for General MIDI
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2008-10-14 by driller010165
Hi, Someone is asking me what format my Disklavier Mark III can play and I had no idea what it meant. Which one has the best quality for Mark III with record
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2008-10-13 by driller010165
Hi, I just bought a Yamah DGC1-B diasklavier that has the new MarkIII with the record function. I m computer savy but know very little about music. This piano
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2008-10-12 by George F. Litterst
Good morning, everyone. ... At this time there is no upgrade path from a Mark III to a Mark IV. At various times in the past, Yamaha has provided upgrade
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2008-10-12 by James Fry
... Hey there, Unfortunately Yamaha have not produced such a unit. You must sell your existing piano and buy a new one in order to upgrade to Mark IV
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2008-10-12 by bbfromca
I have a Mark III series piano and wondered if it was possible to purchase a Mark IV control unit and swap it out for the Mark III control unit? I like the
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2008-10-10 by Todd Muncy
Top group owners have access to 24/7 chat support. Read the transcript for yourself, but they weren t overly helpful. The odd syntax has an Indian flavor to
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2008-10-10 by Todd Muncy
I have removed and banned the two members we had with @grouply.com email addresses. There is an outside chance that other grouply members, using regular
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