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2012-09-05 by tintinlad320
Hello, maybe the answer is somewhere but I coulnt find really so: Another question for the knowers: Beside the yamaha disklaviers titles available are the disklaviers system (and specially mine the mpx1+DKC850) able to play cds and other medias from QRS or Pianodisc or other companies (actually how many different formats are in existence?) ?
2012-09-10 by tintinlad320
Anyone on this one ? --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "tintinlad320" <rightnightboy@...> wrote:
> > Hello, maybe the answer is somewhere but I coulnt find really so: > > Another question for the knowers: > Beside the yamaha disklaviers titles available are the disklaviers system (and specially mine the mpx1+DKC850) able to play cds and other medias from QRS or Pianodisc or other companies (actually how many different formats are in existence?) ? >
2012-09-10 by Mark Fontana
If the DKC-850 has the same capabilities as earlier CD-equipped Disklaviers, you should be able to play Yamaha Pianosoft Plus Audio, QRS Pianomation, and SOME PianoDisc CDs. Note that PianoDisc CDs made after mid-2005 include a rudimentary protection mechanism that adds garbage notes to the performance in an attempt to thwart playback on competitors' systems; CDs with this protection scheme are labeled "Silent Drive Plus". I'm not sure whether Yamaha supports such CDs yet. All PianoDisc CDs dated 2004 and earlier should play fine. If someone would like to run some tests, try encoding the same MIDI file to multiple CD formats using MID2PianoCD at http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/ and report back on which formats the DKC-850 is able to play. Mark Fontana
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 08:34 +0000, tintinlad320 wrote: > Anyone on this one ? > > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "tintinlad320" <rightnightboy@...> wrote: > > > > Hello, maybe the answer is somewhere but I coulnt find really so: > > > > Another question for the knowers: > > > Beside the yamaha disklaviers titles available are the disklaviers > system (and specially mine the mpx1+DKC850) able to play cds and > other medias from QRS or Pianodisc or other companies (actually how > many different formats are in existence?) ?
2012-09-10 by tintinlad320
Thanks Mark ! I might try some of the conversions later on btw do you know of similar utility for mac osx ? --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> wrote:
> > > If the DKC-850 has the same capabilities as earlier CD-equipped > Disklaviers, you should be able to play Yamaha Pianosoft Plus Audio, QRS > Pianomation, and SOME PianoDisc CDs. Note that PianoDisc CDs made after > mid-2005 include a rudimentary protection mechanism that adds garbage > notes to the performance in an attempt to thwart playback on > competitors' systems; CDs with this protection scheme are labeled > "Silent Drive Plus". I'm not sure whether Yamaha supports such CDs > yet. All PianoDisc CDs dated 2004 and earlier should play fine. > > If someone would like to run some tests, try encoding the same MIDI file > to multiple CD formats using MID2PianoCD at > http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/ > and report back on which formats the DKC-850 is able to play. > > Mark Fontana > > > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 08:34 +0000, tintinlad320 wrote: > > > Anyone on this one ? > > > > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "tintinlad320" <rightnightboy@> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, maybe the answer is somewhere but I coulnt find really so: > > > > > > Another question for the knowers: > > > > > Beside the yamaha disklaviers titles available are the disklaviers > > system (and specially mine the mpx1+DKC850) able to play cds and > > other medias from QRS or Pianodisc or other companies (actually how > > many different formats are in existence?) ? >