Disklavier

I have a few PianoDisc Cd's that I bought on Ebay. Can anyone tell me why  
some of them will play on a Yamaha Disklavier and some will not.
I know this is a Disklavier users group but we share the same  interests and 
some products are interchangeable so I thought someone may  know the 
difference in these disks.
CD # 12013 and CD 2009 play the piano part and accompaniment fine but CD  
12011 and CD 12012 play the accompaniment but the there is a fax like tone  
instead of a piano part.
PianoDisc has a lot of nice music but I can't figure out which CD's will  
work and  which will not.
Any help would be appreciated.

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 ISKI1@... wrote:

> I have a few PianoDisc Cd's that I bought on Ebay. Can anyone tell me
> why some of them will play on a Yamaha Disklavier and some will not.


PianoDisc has changed their CD format at least twice over the past few
years, and Yamaha has not caught up.  The Disklaviers I've tried only play
the oldest of the three formats.

The changes needed to support the two newer formats are rather trivial at
a technical level and could easily be supported by the Disklavier.

Unfortunately, there isn't a reliable way to tell before purchase which
PianoDisc CDs use the newer formats, but one hint you can look for is the
phrase "Silent Drive Plus" on the disc or packaging; any CDs bearing that
marking won't work on the Disklavier until Yamaha issues a firmware update
to support the very latest PianoDisc format.

Mark

Mark
Do you know if Yamaha plans to update their firmware to support these  
formats?
You would think it would be a marketing advantage for Yamaha to be able to  
play other products.
 
Thanks
Alan

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 ISKI1@... wrote:

> Do you know if Yamaha plans to update their firmware to support these
> formats? You would think it would be a marketing advantage for Yamaha to
> be able to play other products.

I'm not affiliated with Yamaha in any way.

George Litterst might have a better idea, or perhaps someone at Yamaha
like Bill Brandom or Paul Calvin could field this question?

Mark

Hello All,

We have supplied our engineers with the newest PianoDisc software. They
are working on this issue.
 

Bill Brandom
Senior Technical Manager, Piano Division 
YAMAHA Corporation of America 
TEL (800) 854-1569  FAX (714) 522-9301
E-mail: bbrandom@... 
Web: http://www.yamaha.com 


>>> Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> 12/12/2006 10:11:11 AM >>>



On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 ISKI1@... wrote:

> Do you know if Yamaha plans to update their firmware to support
these
> formats? You would think it would be a marketing advantage for Yamaha
to
> be able to play other products.

I'm not affiliated with Yamaha in any way.

George Litterst might have a better idea, or perhaps someone at Yamaha
like Bill Brandom or Paul Calvin could field this question?

Mark



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From: "Bill Brandom" <BBrandom@...>

> Hello All,
>
> We have supplied our engineers with the newest PianoDisc software. They
> are working on this issue.


Hi Bill,

You had also mentioned back in mid-April of this year that you had hoped to have 
all Disklavier manuals (including older models) produced as PDFs and available 
on Yamaha's website within 60 days on then.

Is this still in the works?


Thanks,

Danny

Bill
Thanks for your reply.
 
That is great news!!
If you can remember to keep us posted it would be appreciated.
 
Thanks

My guess on the pianodisc CD's that were bought off of ebay are 
video sync discs, they are discs that have the video with background 
and the piano is supposed to play that fax tone sound you hear, it 
syncronizes the video with the piano. So unless you have your piano 
hooked up to a tv correctly, those discs won't do you any good.

Hope that helps

Paul



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" <thecarolb@...> 
wrote:
>
> Believe it or not, the newer PianoDisc CDs don't even work on 
PianoDisc systems unless BOTH the control boxes and the processors 
are updated!  Sometimes I think the music is being copy protected 
right out of existence!
> 
> Carol Beigel
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: ISKI1@... 
>   To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:03 PM
>   Subject: [disklavier] PianoDisc Cd's
> 
> 
>   I have a few PianoDisc Cd's that I bought on Ebay. Can anyone 
tell me why some of them will play on a Yamaha Disklavier and some 
will not.
>   I know this is a Disklavier users group but we share the same 
interests and some products are interchangeable so I thought someone 
may know the difference in these disks.
>   CD # 12013 and CD 2009 play the piano part and accompaniment 
fine but CD 12011 and CD 12012 play the accompaniment but the there 
is a fax like tone instead of a piano part.
>   PianoDisc has a lot of nice music but I can't figure out which 
CD's will work and  which will not.
>   Any help would be appreciated.
>

Bill
Do you know if Yamaha is working on a software product comparable to 
PianoDisc's New Creator software? 
http://pianodisc.com/products/details.aspx?id=73561
It allows you to easily create special PianoCDs that combine the 
audio CDs of major-name artists with special Creator disks. (Like 
PianoSoft Smart Disks.)
It sure would be nice to combine all my PianoSoft Smart Disks with 
the matching Cd and just pop in one disk. I have a few disk that I 
have never been able to get synced. One being Chicagos greatest hits 
00503497. It is a strange disk though as there are only 11 songs on 
the smart disk and 12 on the CD. Not sure if a software program like 
this would fix those problems.

Thanks for your input
Alan



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Brandom" <BBrandom@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> 
> We have supplied our engineers with the newest PianoDisc software. 
They
> are working on this issue.
>  
> 
> Bill Brandom
> Senior Technical Manager, Piano Division 
> YAMAHA Corporation of America 
> TEL (800) 854-1569  FAX (714) 522-9301
> E-mail: bbrandom@... 
> Web: http://www.yamaha.com 
> 
> 
> >>> Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> 12/12/2006 10:11:11 AM >>>
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 ISKI1@... wrote:
> 
> > Do you know if Yamaha plans to update their firmware to support
> these
> > formats? You would think it would be a marketing advantage for 
Yamaha
> to
> > be able to play other products.
> 
> I'm not affiliated with Yamaha in any way.
> 
> George Litterst might have a better idea, or perhaps someone at 
Yamaha
> like Bill Brandom or Paul Calvin could field this question?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> To Post a message to the group, send it to:  
> disklavier@... 
> 
> To Post a private message to Todd Muncy, the group's founder and
> moderator, send it to:
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> 
> To reach our group's web site go to:
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> 
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