Disklavier

Hi,

  
  Currently, I'm a user of a Yamaha DU1A upright Piano.
As I already explained on the two dedicated DKV lists I'm blind and
have great difficulties inorder to play fully with my DKV, because :
1. All information are written on the screen unit which is no
accessible for visual impaired persons,
2. So, I'm obliged to have a sighted person beside me to do what I'm
wanting to do on my DKV but the problem is most of the persons who
leave with me don't speak english at all, but unfortunately The DKV
interface is uniquely available in english.

So what I would like to see in a future upcoming version of the dkv
system is :

1. A multilingual interface for those who don't speak neither english
nor japanese;
And a way to access the dkv functionalities remotely (through a wifi
connection and a web browser for example as if the piano were a router
...), it would solve the lack of accessibility which prevent us from
deeply playing with our DKV product.
I must add, that if those enhancements were available a day, I will
not hesitate to sell my upright DU1A for a grand DKV equipped with
those nice features ...

Are those enhancements/wishes reasonnable or  am I simply dreaming
because they are simply impossible ?

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Greetings,


Claude Renaud


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The current Mark IV uses a proprietary version of Linux.  What may be available in the future models is in the hands of Yamaha engineers in Japan.  I would

Greetings,

To follow up on this thread, what exactly is it that you (Claude) need to do with the Disklavier? As CCW suggested, it may be possible to do it all with external applications of write custom applications for specific needs. It might be possible to write some very simple apps that would integrate well with a screen reader but it is necessary to know what jobs need to be done.

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Hi all,

Le jeudi 2 mars 2006 à 00:25:15, vous écriviez :

      First, thank to all who responded...

S>  
S> To follow up on this thread, what exactly is it that you (Claude)
S> need to do with the Disklavier? As CCW suggested, it may be
S> possible to do it all with external applications of write custom
S> applications for specific needs. It might be possible to write some
S> very simple apps that would integrate well with a screen reader but
S> it is necessary to know what jobs need to be done.
S>  

Quite simply, I would like to accomplish things you can regularly do
with your unit.
I'm équipped with a laptop running on windows xp and a screen reader,
and for example, I would like to be able to :

- play music on my piano controlling it from my laptop,
- make tempo variation,
- play left/right hands seperately,
- record and play my own performances,
- and so on ...

IS it possible from a laptop to do such things ?
If yes, what material do I need to accomplish this ?
Knowing that I have a DKV DU1A if I would like to _emulate_ Mark IV
functionalities, what should I have to buy and do ?

-- 


Greetings,


Claude Renaud


Skype : 
Name : renaud_claude
Number : 0870 445 179


The Bat! 3.71.03 running on Windows XP 5.1  Build 2600
Service Pack 2

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Chine-Chine Wang wrote:
> The current Mark IV uses a proprietary version of Linux.  What may be

This is interesting; I can't see anywhere to download the sourcecode for 
the MarkIV - does it come with the MarkIV?

Hi all,

Le jeudi 2 mars 2006 à 00:25:15, vous écriviez :

      First, thank to all who responded...

S>  
S> To follow up on this thread, what exactly is it that you (Claude)
S> need to do with the Disklavier? As CCW suggested, it may be
S> possible to do it all with external applications of write custom
S> applications for specific needs. It might be possible to write some
S> very simple apps that would integrate well with a screen reader but
S> it is necessary to know what jobs need to be done.
S>  

Quite simply, I would like to accomplish things you can regularly do
with your unit.
I'm équipped with a laptop running on windows xp and a screen reader,
and for example, I would like to be able to :

- play music on my piano controlling it from my laptop,
- make tempo variation,
- play left/right hands seperately,
- record and play my own performances,
- and so on ...

IS it possible from a laptop to do such things ?
If yes, what material do I need to accomplish this ?
Knowing that I have a DKV DU1A if I would like to _emulate_ Mark IV
functionalities, what should I have to buy and do ?

-- 


Greetings,


Claude Renaud


Skype : 
Name : renaud_claude
Number : 0870 445 179


The Bat! 3.71.03 running on Windows XP 5.1  Build 2600
Service Pack 2