From: "'Jon Arnold' jonarnold@... [disklavier]"
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Reply-To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 8:06 AM
To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [disklavier] How to play MIDI files on my PC?
Thanks Brad, I think I am pretty much in cool mode with my new DKC850. I
found some software that can rip the files off my disklavier floppies and
store them on my computer (PC), and can copy selected ones to thumb drives
to plug into the USB port on the 850. (I am still not sure of the purpose
of the PIANO.FIL file that is on almost every floppy though, as it doesn’t
seem to be a music file itself?) I got subscribed to Disklavier TV and am
enjoying the selections there very much, as well as using an iPad to
control the live performances from there and show them by connecting the
iPad to my LED TV while the iPad is talking via Bluetooth to the 850.
Super impressive technology and am enjoying the heck out of it. I haven’t
yet had time to read through the 850 manual to find out how to make a
playlist, but I suppose I could just create a series of thumb drives with
appropriate playlists on them; ie, “spa”, “party”, “background”, etc.
Jon
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Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [disklavier] How to play MIDI files on my PC? [1 Attachment]
[Attachment(s) from Brad Harper included below]
Jon,
I use the YAM Player to play .FIL files that are on my hard disk or
Network Shared hard drives. The YAM player supports XG extensions as well
so you get a good reproduction, and a fairly close rendition of what will
play on a Disklavier. The FIL format is the Native format of Most of the
Disklavier and Clavinova players. The files were usually on a 3 1/2" Inch
diskettes and could not be seen using normal PC software. If you use the
DKVCOPY.EXE utility with the right DOS software running, you can copy
these disks and the result will be an IBM formatted disk that can then be
read on a normal computer. The files will then be visible, and will have
the .FIL extension. If they have a .MID extension, thIan these disks are
newer, and the files can be copied off and played as regular MDI files.
If there is no extension, they are .FIL Files. Yamaha used this method to
prevent disk and song copying, but didn’t allow you to make back-ups. Im
sure these files are also loaded onto the DKC-850 controller, to play in
play lists.
The Geibler Software has a disk utility that allows you to Extract songs
from a disk, to a YFD intermediate format, using their DOMSMF package.
Then you can use their utility to convert the YFD file to MID with
Converting and Patch File mapping.
If you also have a usb to Midi attachment like the Yamaha UX16 USB to MIDI
interface, than you can play those files into your MIDI IN port on your
disklavier.
I run mine on a MacBook Pro, in a WindowsXP Parallels Virtual Machine, and
it works great. I also have some old software that works fine as well,
like the VanBoscoe Player, Midisoft Studio, XG Synth, and the Y100 XG
extensions, and various other Sequencing software.
It may run under other Operating Systems as well, I just haven’t tried in
Win 200, Vista, 7 or 8.1. I will let you know, as I have all those
Virtual Machines as well.
Of course the YAM Player also supports SMF(standard midi files) with a
.MID extension as well. It is a very compact little player, but has the
capability to convert files to MIDI and save them on the fly as they are
played from .FIL files. It also has a batch converter that links to the
ESEQ2MID.exe file in the Midi tools library.
Most of this stuff is at http://www.kuhmann.com/Yamaha.htm
Or at the Carol Beigel site. http://www.carolrpt.com
Attached is a listing of the systems that can play ESEQ .FIL format files
from Carols site.
If you goto these sites and read up on all of the documents, you will
become knowledgeable about all the options.
Best Regards
Brad
Brad Harper
Grand Rapids, Michigan
DGH1B Mark II DKC100R MU50 UX16
bharper33@...
From: "'Jon Arnold' jonarnold@... [disklavier]"
<disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, January 2, 2015 at 11:22 AM
To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [disklavier] How to play MIDI files on my PC?
I don’t want to *convert* them to a different format, just *PLAY* them so
I can catalog the song titles.
From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:19 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] How to play MIDI files on my PC?
.fil is yamaha's own format and is not midi. i do not know of any
converter.
On 1/2/2015 8:08 AM, 'Jon Arnold' jonarnold@... [disklavier]
wrote:
I have been accumulating a lot of midi files for my Yamaha DKC850. At
least I *think* they are midi files, even though the file extension is
“.FIL”?
Is there a way I can play them on my PC? Most of my midi folders on my PC
do not have an index of the songs and its not always easy to tell what the
song is just based on the filename.
It doesn’t have to be “production quality” but good enough for me to
create a song title index, without copying each of them to a thumb drive
and tediously scrolling through each one on the DKC850?
Thanks
Jon
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