Disklavier

Thank you!

--- "George F. Litterst" <PianoBench@...> wrote:

> Good afternoon, everyone.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> XP files will play in any Disklavier (when received
> as external MIDI  
> data) and from floppy in a Mark II or later model.
> 
> The XP format contains much higher resolution
> information (contained  
> in a bundle of key aftertouch and other controller
> messages). The non- 
> Pro Disklaviers ignore this additional information.
> Unless you have a  
> Pro, you might as well avoid the XP files because
> they are much  
> larger--so much so that you may not be able to save
> an hour-long  
> program on a high density disk.
> 
> I have not compared the E-SEQ files with the
> Enhanced Standard MIDI  
> files. I was the person who prepared these, and I
> used the  
> Disklavier's own conversion feature for creating the
> E-SEQ files. I  
> am presuming that all of the data was kept. However,
> I do know that  
> incremental pedal data is stored in a different way
> in an E-SEQ file.  
> On/off pedal data is stored on the track assigned to
> channel 1 (where  
> the notes are stored) and that incremental pedal
> data are stored on  
> the track assigned to channel 3. In the SMF, all of
> the pedal data  
> resides in the same track as the note data.
> 
> Regards,
> PianoBench
> 
> 
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Garry Neil wrote:
> 
> > Good information.  Does XP work with Mark IV? 
> What
> > difference would one notice between .fil ESEQ and
> .mid
> > MIDI files on a Mark IV?
> >
> > --- "George F. Litterst" <PianoBench@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Good afternoon, everyone.
> >>
> >> On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Steinbrink@...
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Of a half dozen disks I downloaded from the
> >>>
> >> Piano-e-competition,
> >>
> >>> only one of them worked when I put it is the
> >>>
> >> Disklavier drive.  I
> >>
> >>> now realize that I probably needed to un-Zip the
> >>>
> >> files first, but
> >>
> >>> when I do un-Zip them, I get a message that the
> >>>
> >> disk does not have
> >>
> >>> enough room.   Do I need to save the unzipped
> >>>
> >> files to the PC and
> >>
> >>> then copy them one-by-one to individual disks?
> The
> >>>
> >> formatting on
> >>
> >>> the Yamaha downloads is not recognized by my PC.
> >>>
> >> What is going on?
> >>
> >> Have you achieved success with this?
> >>
> >> The procedure is:
> >>
> >> (1) Download the .zip archives.
> >>
> >> (2) Copy the files out of the archives to a
> floppy
> >> disk.
> >>
> >> The P-e-C offers the files in 3 formats:
> >>
> >> E-SEQ
> >> --for older Disklaviers (i.e. pre-Mark IIXG)
> >>
> >> Enhanced Standard MIDI Files
> >> --for Mark IIXG and later Disklaviers
> >>
> >> --XP
> >> --for all models of Disklavier Pro
> >>
> >> Since you have a Mark III, I suggest using the
> >> Enhanced Standard MIDI
> >> files. If memory serves me correctly, the
> contensts
> >> of each .zip
> >> archive of the Enhanced files should fit onto a
> high
> >> density disk.
> >> Copy everything, including any directory files.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> PianoBench
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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