Disklavier

Sounds like your floppy disk drive died. Replacement drives are available from Yamaha.

Bill

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On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:11 PM, <smshannon@...> wrote:

Hello,


I am the new owner of a MX100II.  When the piano was delivered it played disks fine.  I went to play a disk this morning and all disks (both pre-loaded and user loaded) come up as "unformatted disk".   I tried to format a disk to maybe jog something and it won't format disks either.  Not sure why it would just stop working.  

I'm using the same disks that played perfectly when it was delivered.

Any help would be appreciated.  

Thanks.

Good.  (In voice of Dumbledore:)  Let the calling begin!  And the emailing.

> On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:43 PM, <thirdharmonic@...> wrote:
> 
> If you have a computer with QuickTime and a USB midi cable you could download midi files to your computer and play them on the piano. The cable is easily available at music stores.
> 
>

My apologies, everyone. I am a Mac enthusiast and often find ways of making things work. My reasoning was based on experience. I haven't paid attention to QT's demise as I've been a busy boy. Obviously, I missed on this. I do see that it is still possible to utilize QT midi functions(ver 7), but paying the price isn't worth it.

sorry mr dumbledore, (I'm biting my tongue)

thank you George

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, George Frederick Litterst <PianoBench@...> wrote:
>
> Good morning, everyone.
> 
> No reason to bite your tongue, thirdharmonic.
> 
> Under OS 9, you could specify an external MIDI device as the default playback device for Quicktime. If you did, any program that used Quicktime for playback would send MIDI data to the designated external device.
> 
> When OS X came out, the OS X documentation stated that this was still possible, but it was not.
> 
> In OS X, Quicktime player will play MIDI files, but it will use its built-in General MIDI tone generator.
> 
> Regards,
> PianoBench
> 
> On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:32 PM, thirdharmonic@... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My apologies, everyone. I am a Mac enthusiast and often find ways of making things work. My reasoning was based on experience. I haven't paid attention to QT's demise as I've been a busy boy.  Obviously, I missed on this. I do see that it is still possible to utilize QT midi functions(ver 7), but paying the price isn't worth it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > sorry mr dumbledore, (I'm biting my tongue)
> > 
> > thank you George
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Good evening, everyone.
> > 
> > This was true with OS 9 on the Mac but has not been true for many years.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > PianoBench
> > 
> > On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:43 PM, thirdharmonic@ wrote:
> > 
> >>  
> >> If you have a computer with QuickTime and a USB midi cable you could download midi files to your computer and play them on the piano. The cable is easily available at music stores.
> >> 
I have QuickTime Pro on my iMac, and it plays MIDI files OK, but is there a way to do this on my iPhone or iPad Air?  QT Pro only seems to be available for iMacs, and I can't get it to export MIDI files into iTunes, and neither will iTunes import them!!  Frustrating!

Michelle