Disklavier

Hi everyone.

Very quick intro on myself. Im a pilot from the UK and I have just recently bought a lovely example Disklavier MX100II - Im at the early stages of learning about Midi/e-seq/ etc and need some advice!

I have done my research so I understand that I have an old Disklavier, thats limited. I have managed to connect it to my Laptop via a Midi interface and I can now stream Midi Type 0 to the piano. its great, works perfect. I have also learnt how to take the songs off the Pianosoft Floopy's and store them on my Laptop so I have no real need anymore for the Floppy drive.

Now, what I want to be able to do next, is buy the much more modern songs for the piano but i notice these are only availiable in CD's - the typical chart toppers such as Alicia Keys, Elton John, Bon Jovi - this list is endless.

So, Is this going to be possible? buy the CD's and take the midi off them and put it onto my laptop??

Any advice would be much appreciated.


Many thanks

Tom

Tom,

Though the conversion is technically possible, I don't think anyone's 
released a software tool to rip Disklavier CDs to MIDI files yet.

You could find and purchase a discontinued Yamaha DCD-1 Disklavier CD 
drive (about USD $600), which would give you the ability to play Yamaha, 
QRS, and (older) PianoDisc CDs directly to the MX100II's MIDI IN port.

Or you could buy Yamaha's new DKC-850 control unit (about USD $1500?), 
which includes the same functionality plus some additional features like 
Disklavier Radio (which I understand cannot be used on the MX100II or 
any other Disklavier that connects to the DKC-850 via MIDI).

You should be able to use either the DCD-1 or DKC-850 with your laptop 
by ripping the original CDs to a lossless format like FLAC, then play 
them using jukebox software like Foobar2000 or WINAMP, streaming the 
signal into the DCD-1 / DKC-850's analog MIDI input jacks.

Alternatively, I suppose you could convert the CD tracks to MIDI files 
by recording the MIDI stream for each song of each CD as it leaves the 
DCD-1 or DKC-850, but this would be time-consuming.  You'd also lose any 
acoustic accompaniment from the CD since audio can't be stored in a MIDI 
file.

Mark Fontana

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:40:41AM -0000, tommccartney wrote:

> Very quick intro on myself. Im a pilot from the UK and I have just 
> recently bought a lovely example Disklavier MX100II - Im at the early 
> stages of learning about Midi/e-seq/ etc and need some advice!
> 
> I have done my research so I understand that I have an old Disklavier, 
> thats limited. I have managed to connect it to my Laptop via a Midi 
> interface and I can now stream Midi Type 0 to the piano. its great, 
> works perfect. I have also learnt how to take the songs off the 
> Pianosoft Floopy's and store them on my Laptop so I have no real need 
> anymore for the Floppy drive.
> 
> Now, what I want to be able to do next, is buy the much more modern 
> songs for the piano but i notice these are only availiable in CD's - 
> the typical chart toppers such as Alicia Keys, Elton John, Bon Jovi - 
> this list is endless.
> 
> So, Is this going to be possible? buy the CD's and take the midi off 
> them and put it onto my laptop??

Carol Beigle site might help.... 
www.carolrpt.com

On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:40 AM, tommccartney wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> Very quick intro on myself. Im a pilot from the UK and I have just recently bought a lovely example Disklavier MX100II - Im at the early stages of learning about Midi/e-seq/ etc and need some advice!
> 
> I have done my research so I understand that I have an old Disklavier, thats limited. I have managed to connect it to my Laptop via a Midi interface and I can now stream Midi Type 0 to the piano. its great, works perfect. I have also learnt how to take the songs off the Pianosoft Floopy's and store them on my Laptop so I have no real need anymore for the Floppy drive.
> 
> Now, what I want to be able to do next, is buy the much more modern songs for the piano but i notice these are only availiable in CD's - the typical chart toppers such as Alicia Keys, Elton John, Bon Jovi - this list is endless.
> 
> So, Is this going to be possible? buy the CD's and take the midi off them and put it onto my laptop??
> 
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> 
>