Good morning, everyone.
Ron, you can find information about backing up Yamaha disks here:
http://www.carolrpt.com/disks.htm#Making%20Back-up%20Copies%20of%20PianoSoft%20floppy%20disksWhile backing up your copy-protected disks, you can enjoy the
intellectual exercise of reconciling your fair use rights with the
restrictions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. On the one hand,
you have the right to back up the data that you have lawfully
licensed. On the other hand, it is illegal to break copy protection.
What a weird world we live in!
Sibelius is an excellent music notation program. I don't think that
you'll find Sibelius (or other notation programs, like Finale) to be
suitable MIDI performance editors, however.
Regards,
PianoBench
www.georgelitterst.com
www.timewarptech.com
On Oct 15, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Ron Ayanzen wrote:
> George,
>
> If the Yamaha floppies are missing a boot sector, are there any
> utilities that will allow a copy and back up of such a floppy?
> After paying a not - too - trivial amount of mony for such a flimsy
> Yamaha floppy, I'd hate to loose the data on it and not have a
> backup to replace it.
>
> I just recently received the Sibelius software. I havent had a
> chance to examine it yet, but suspect that I should be able to the
> splice & dice activity with it as well. If not, I'll definitely
> look into the software you mentioned.
>
> thanks,
> ron
>
>
> To:
disklavier@yahoogroups.com> From:
PianoBench@aol.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:32:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Playing the L hand vs R hand
>
>
> Good afternoon, everyone.
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:35 PM, ron8100 wrote:
>
> George, I like your manual splicing technique. Which software do you
> use for that? Because hand positions can easily overlap and cross
> any pre-designated split point, i'd prefer not use a preset split
> point to split L vs. R, but I can see how that could be useful,
> depending on the particular situation.
>
>
> For years I have used Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer on the
> Macintosh. More recently I have also use Steinberg's Cubase. Another
> good Mac sequencer (and low cost) is Sagan Technologies' Metro.
>
> Popular sequencers on Windows that have a graphic or piano roll view
> include Cubase and Cakewalk Sonar.
>
>
> Carol, you're right. As you mentioned, the piece needs to be
> originally recorded on separate tracks, or post processed after the
> fact with software, like George described above. You have nice set
> of utilities on your website. Does any one of them read a protected
> Yamaha floppy that's used for playback with CD sync? When i try to
> read that floppy, so that i can back it up to my hard drive, I get a
> drive read error & the PC thinks the floppy is not formatted and
> asks me if I want to format it.
>
> Yamaha-published floppies are missing a boot sector. That is why
> your computer offers to format the disk.
>
>
> Steve, I also have a Clavinva but didn't know that it came with the
> midi files of the book "Worlds Greatest 50 Songs". I have that book,
> but i don't believe i have the midi files. I would gladly appreciete
> that - I'd love for u to a copy of that to me so i can try it out on
> the clavinova. It'll probably work on the disklavier, too i bet.
> Of course one should consider the copyright issue.
>
> Regards,
> PianoBench
>
>
> www.georgelitterst.com
> www.timewarptech.com