On Mar 12, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Carol Beigel wrote:
> I am not as familiar with the MarkIV as the other
> models, but I would suggest a few things as these
> suggestions resolved this same problem on previous
> models:
>
> 1) consult your owner's manual to make sure the Keys
> are set to "On"
> 2) Yamaha calls MIDI files Import Files, so check the
> owner's manual for that section
> 3) Piano keys are played by whatever information is on
> MIDI Channels 1 and 2, so make sure the piano part is
> set accordingly
> 4) consult your owner's manual and do a system reset
> 4) call Yamaha tech support
>
> Carol
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garry Neil" <ulcerdoc@...>
> To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Upgrading Disklaviers
>
>
>> Carol:
>>
>> I had my Disklavier Mk IV operating system upgraded.
>> Since then a lot of midi I downloaded and that played
>> fine are now no longer playing on the piano in
> coustic
>> mode - but only "electronically". Have you heard of
>> this happening before? Is there a fix?
>>
>> --- Carol Beigel <thecarolb@...> wrote:
>>
>>> I am a piano technician who fell in love with
>>> electronic player pianos when they were first
>>> invented
>>> in the early 1980's. My first one was a
> Pianocorder
>>> Vorsetzer that used 80 pinball machine solenoids
> and
>>> a
>>> Marantz propriety cassette deck. You could roll
>>> this
>>> thing up to any piano, connect the pedal rods to
> the
>>> top of of the pedals, and have digitized player
>>> piano
>>> rolls on cassettes play your piano. Yamaha bought
>>> this
>>> company and the Pianocorder became no more. I
> still
>>> have my Vorsetzer and the library of cassette
> tapes!
>>>
>>> MIDI was invented in the early 80's, but every
>>> company
>>> had their own version. Yamaha's version was called
>>> ESEQ and that was the software that ran the first
>>> Disklaviers, the Wagon Grand and the MX100A/B. The
>>> solenoid technology was better than the old pinball
>>> machines, and laser beams broken by shutters were
>>> used
>>> to measure hammer and key travel.
>>>
>>> It wasn't until about 1986 that a standard was
>>> agreed
>>> upon, and General MIDI came about. Yamaha came out
>>> with the MarkII that could play standard MIDI
> format
>>> 0
>>> files as well as their own ESEQ stuff.
>>>
>>> Then flash memory was invented. This made software
>>> upgradable by using a floppy disk instead of having
>>> to
>>> replace a chip on the motherboard. The MarkIIXG
> not
>>> only could play standard MIDI files in format 0,
> but
>>> format 1 as well. The XG MIDI sounds were the next
>>> generation of MIDI sounds as pioneered by Yamaha.
>>> They
>>> also had incremental pedaling.
>>>
>>> Then "pulsating" solenoids were invented and they
>>> appeared on the MarkIII. Personally, I think one
> of
>>> the greatest musical inventions of the 20th century
>>> was
>>> the transposable audio that came with the MarkIII.
>>> You
>>> could play a CD with your piano and adjust the
> pitch
>>> of
>>> someone singing! The MarkIII could play MIDI 0 and
>>> 1,
>>> plus digital audio, plus it STILL played the ESEQ
>>> files
>>> that had been invented years earlier. It's like
>>> having
>>> Microsoft Office still supporting my Commodore 64 I
>>> bought in 1985! Also with the MarkIII came the
>>> piano
>>> action special "jacks" that enable silent playing
>>> without affecting the touch on your fingers.
>>>
>>> With a DSR-1 control box and the DCD1 CD player
>>> (hardware upgrades), you can upgrade any Disklavier
>>> to
>>> most of the capabilities of the MarkIII.
>>>
>>> Now we have the MarkIV that uses different
> solenoids
>>> that were previously only available in the PRO
>>> models,
>>> different operating system (Lynux), uses a PDA for
> a
>>> remote controller, but it STILL plays the old ESEQ
>>> floppy disks! The recordings create twice as much
>>> data
>>> as the older systems, so it has a hard drive
> instead
>>> of
>>> a floppy disk. It can also control the loudness
> and
>>> softness of the piano playing better than any
>>> previous
>>> models. Most of this is hardware, so you would have
>>> to
>>> gut your Disklavier electronics and start from
>>> scratch
>>> to upgrade to MarkIV electronics. This is not
> going
>>> to
>>> happen.
>>>
>>> We have come a long way from pinball machine
>>> solenoids,
>>> and only the Yamaha Disklavier will give you really
>>> good quality recordings. The QRS Patine system,
> and
>>> the PianoDisc are now incorporating copy protection
>>> systems that are a total pain to deal with. How
>>> would
>>> like to find out your old library of expensive
> music
>>> no
>>> longer plays on the current product?? At least
>>> Yamaha
>>> never did that to you!
>>>
>>> Carol Beigel
>>>
>>>
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