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upgrading my XGII with the DKC-850

2013-07-02 by John Rank

I have a Yamaha C-3 Mark IIXG. I have about 40 Yamahsfloppy discs (Piano Soft and Piano Soft Plus) and hoped to be able to play them without playing them one at a time.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this DKC_850 upgrade? Will I have to keep the current floppy disc console if I want to play those floppies?

And what ordinary usage does the upgrade give? Is it more than just being able to play the latest versions of Yamaha pre recorded selections? Can newer Yamaha selections be grouped so that 60 pieces can be played without changing anything or does that just happen with classical works and others whose copyrights have expired?

thanks

John

RE: upgrading my XGII with the DKC-850

2013-09-11 by <jmorris651@...>

Hi John,

I am about to go through the same exact procedure. I see that there were no replies to this post. Did you happen to get any private replies that helped?

Thanks

Joe

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, <jtr822@...> wrote:

I have a Yamaha C-3 Mark IIXG. I have about 40 Yamahsfloppy discs (Piano Soft and Piano Soft Plus) and hoped to be able to play them without playing them one at a time.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this DKC_850 upgrade? Will I have to keep the current floppy disc console if I want to play those floppies?

And what ordinary usage does the upgrade give? Is it more than just being able to play the latest versions of Yamaha pre recorded selections? Can newer Yamaha selections be grouped so that 60 pieces can be played without changing anything or does that just happen with classical works and others whose copyrights have expired?

thanks

John

Re: upgrading my XGII with the DKC-850

2013-09-11 by buddaeru

I have a older C3 XG// (Wagon?) model.
2nd owner.
Lot's of floppies.. probably 100-150 floppies..

Enjoy it immensely.  And the worry of a floppy going bad, after losing one to extensive play.. I started to worry on how I'm going to back it up.  
Initially I tried to copy the floppies.. but then I started looking at the DKC-850..and eventually bought a DKC-850.

Eventually got the Yamaha Drive made for the DKC-850 (I tried the cheap route, trying to find various floppy drives that were supposed to work).  In the end the Yamaha Floppy drive was the one that could read my old floppies.

I imported all my floppies into the DKC-850.  Even made a usb backup of it after importing them.  Best feature that I love now is creating various playlists from my collection of floppies..

As time progressed, I hooked up the DKC-850 to my home wireless network, and downloaded the IPAD Yamaha Apps (2 apps).  One app looks like the remote so you can select all your favorite features (Voice,tempo).  The other Yamaha App is more of a playlist selector, so you can see all the files that is on the DKC-850, or if you have new songs on a usb, you can see that also and play it back..

I don't have all the fancy features on my C3 (silent mode, etc..) but it's still pretty awesome for an older Disklavier setup.