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Suggested Disklavier Feature - Anytime Rewind and Instant Replay

2011-09-27 by cmathews2112

For those in this group who work for Yamaha, I'd like to suggest a feature for future firmware revisions.

I frequently sit at the piano and start improvising.  Every so often, I would like to go back and record the last minute or so.

It would be very cool if the piano was always silently recording what you were playing (much like the DVR on your TV).  At any time, you could press the rewind button, go back to a certain point, and listen to (or save as a song) from that point forward.

This would be an extremely useful feature that it seems would be very simple to implement in firmware.  The midi messages are a small amount of data to buffer. Such a feature would cause a huge number of songwriters to want a disklavier.

I realize that I could just always start recording before I play, but then I would have to go through the very long song and edit out just the parts that I like.

I am giving this idea to you for free with the understanding that if you do add it to your pianos, you will include it as a free firmware update on the DKC-850 and other current models, and not make us buy a new piano or module to get it :)

Re: [disklavier] Suggested Disklavier Feature - Anytime Rewind and Instant Replay

2011-09-27 by Mark Fontana

That's an *excellent* suggestion.  Some professional digital audio
recorders have a feature like this enabling journalists doing field
interviews to capture the start of a soundbite even if they're slow on
the draw to press record when their subject starts talking.

I'm not aware of any electronic musical instruments that implement such
a feature yet.

Mark

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On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 22:54 +0000, cmathews2112 wrote:

> For those in this group who work for Yamaha, I'd like to suggest a
> feature for future firmware revisions.
> 
> I frequently sit at the piano and start improvising.  Every so often,
> I would like to go back and record the last minute or so.
> 
> It would be very cool if the piano was always silently recording what
> you were playing (much like the DVR on your TV).  At any time, you
> could press the rewind button, go back to a certain point, and listen
> to (or save as a song) from that point forward.

Re: [disklavier] Suggested Disklavier Feature - Anytime Rewind and Instant Replay

2011-09-27 by Bill Brandom

Interesting idea! I will pass it along to our engineers in Japan. I would like to have this feature myself.

Bill Brandom

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, cmathews2112 <cmathews@...> wrote:

For those in this group who work for Yamaha, I'd like to suggest a feature for future firmware revisions.

I frequently sit at the piano and start improvising. Every so often, I would like to go back and record the last minute or so.

It would be very cool if the piano was always silently recording what you were playing (much like the DVR on your TV). At any time, you could press the rewind button, go back to a certain point, and listen to (or save as a song) from that point forward.

This would be an extremely useful feature that it seems would be very simple to implement in firmware. The midi messages are a small amount of data to buffer. Such a feature would cause a huge number of songwriters to want a disklavier.

I realize that I could just always start recording before I play, but then I would have to go through the very long song and edit out just the parts that I like.

I am giving this idea to you for free with the understanding that if you do add it to your pianos, you will include it as a free firmware update on the DKC-850 and other current models, and not make us buy a new piano or module to get it :)

Re: [disklavier] Suggested Disklavier Feature - Anytime Rewind and Instant Replay

2011-09-28 by George F. Litterst

Good evening, everyone.

Although it is not a program that it oriented toward improvisation, Home Concert Xtreme always records what you at doing during "play and follow."
You can decide whether to save later.

PianoBench

Sent from my iPhone

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On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Bill Brandom <bill.brandom03@...> wrote:

> Interesting idea! I will pass it along to our engineers in Japan. I would like to have this feature myself.
> 
> 
> Bill Brandom
> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, cmathews2112 <cmathews@...> wrote:
>  
> For those in this group who work for Yamaha, I'd like to suggest a feature for future firmware revisions.
> 
> I frequently sit at the piano and start improvising. Every so often, I would like to go back and record the last minute or so.
> 
> It would be very cool if the piano was always silently recording what you were playing (much like the DVR on your TV). At any time, you could press the rewind button, go back to a certain point, and listen to (or save as a song) from that point forward.
> 
> This would be an extremely useful feature that it seems would be very simple to implement in firmware. The midi messages are a small amount of data to buffer. Such a feature would cause a huge number of songwriters to want a disklavier.
> 
> I realize that I could just always start recording before I play, but then I would have to go through the very long song and edit out just the parts that I like.
> 
> I am giving this idea to you for free with the understanding that if you do add it to your pianos, you will include it as a free firmware update on the DKC-850 and other current models, and not make us buy a new piano or module to get it :)
> 
> 
>

Re: Suggested Disklavier Feature - Anytime Rewind and Instant Replay

2011-09-28 by Curtis Mathews

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Bill Brandom <bill.brandom03@...> wrote:

> Interesting idea! I will pass it along to our engineers in Japan. I would

> like to have this feature myself.

> Bill Brandom

Thanks Bill! How cool is that when you can make suggestions to a big company like Yamaha, and your idea will actually be heard by someone that matters.

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Corrupted Song Title

2011-09-29 by nehs75

This is on a DKC-800 unit. Some of the songs inside certain music albums in my USB flash drive are not displayed properly. It shows something like this on the unit's display screen: "f_CL".

The same songs though shows the correct title in the iPad/iPod Disklavier app.

Thoughts? Thanks forum!

Joe