Disklavier

Hello everyone

I am wondering about the disappearance on the YamahaMusicSoft website of the "Pianosoft plus audio" format. A lot of the cds previously available are not there anymore... It seems that the new format is the "Pianosoft Audio" created for the new Enspire models. Anyone has infos on that ? My understanding is that the old formats are going to become more and more difficult to get... Is there an upgrade that will permit older disklavier models to play this new format (DKC-850 for instance)?

Also any hints where one can get a pdf manual of any of the Enspire models ?

Thanks

Alain

So far, the downloadable Pianosoft Audio tracks consist of a MIDI file 
and corresponding MP3 file that are played in sync by Enspire.  If you 
convert the MP3 file to a WAV file, you can use MID2PianoCD to merge the 
pair into a legacy Pianosoft Plus Audio WAV file.

Regarding the disappearance of Pianosoft Plus Audio from the online 
catalog, Yamaha is clearly moving away from physical media, and they 
probably figured out that it's not possible to distribute Pianosoft Plus 
Audio tracks in MP3 format (the lossy MP3 compression damages the 
modulation scheme too much).  But they could provide downloadable tracks 
in FLAC or Apple Lossless formats, which have similar tagging 
capabilities and lossless compression that preserves the Pianosoft Plus 
Audio signal.

The E3 and DKC-850 *might* already have the ability to play 
Enspire-style MID/MP3 file pairs directly, since there isn't any new 
format involved.  It's worth a try.  If it doesn't work, seems like a 
firmware update could make this possible, since there is no dependency 
on special hardware.

Mark Fontana

On 09/11/2016 03:47 AM, rightnightboy@... [disklavier] wrote:
>
> I am wondering about the disappearance on the YamahaMusicSoft website 
> of the "Pianosoft plus audio" format. A lot of the cds previously 
> available are not there anymore... It seems that the new format is the 
> "Pianosoft Audio" created for the new Enspire models. Anyone has infos 
> on that ? My understanding is that the old formats are going to become 
> more and more difficult to get... Is there an upgrade that will permit 
> older disklavier models to play this new format (DKC-850 for instance)?
>
>
> Also any hints where one can get a pdf manual of any of the Enspire 
> models  ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Alain
>

Thank you for that great info. Once I'm able to get the legacy Pianosoft Plus Audio WAV file how would I be able to extract a midi file which then I would be able to convert to .eseq format? My system can only play what I think is.FLV files 

Evan Kaplan
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> On Sep 13, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Mark Fontana mark@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> legacy Pianosoft Plus Audio WAV file.

The tracks already come with a MIDI file.  You can just use MID2ESEQ.EXE 
from the dkvutils package on Carol's site 
(http://www.midiplayertools.com/musicsoftware.htm) to convert to ESEQ, 
then use ESEQ Explorer to create the PIANODIR.FIL.

On 09/13/2016 09:52 AM, Evan evankaplan@... [disklavier] wrote:
> Thank you for that great info. Once I'm able to get the legacy 
> Pianosoft Plus Audio WAV file how would I be able to extract a midi 
> file which then I would be able to convert to .eseq format? My system 
> can only play what I think is.FLV files
>