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Downloading midi files for disklavier Mark III

Downloading midi files for disklavier Mark III

2004-07-02 by pianoalan2004

I have downloaded midi files to my Mac and then burned them onto a blank Cd.  However, 
the Disklavier seems to be unable to find them on the CD.  As I am new to this technology 
( Ihave owned a Mark III for 24 hours)  I am wondering if there is some type of formatting 
for the CD which is necessary.  Alternatively, perhaps I should be burning the CDs on my 
PC?  Any ideas why the Mark III can't see or read these files? Yes, I have checked the CD, 
the files are present and play on my Mac from the CD.  Any help would be appeciated.

Alan Milnes

Re: [disklavier] Downloading midi files for disklavier Mark III

2004-07-02 by Robert Welcyng

The DKV's CD drive will not read MIDI (or E-SEQ) data files from a 
CD-ROM . . . a great idea, but not yet implemented.

What you can do is drive your DKV through its MIDI port using a 
sequencer program (Performer by Mark of the Unicorn, for example) and 
conveniently keep all your MIDI files on a CD-ROM that you have burned.

pianoalan2004 wrote:
> I have downloaded midi files to my Mac and then burned them onto a blank Cd.  However, 
> the Disklavier seems to be unable to find them on the CD.  As I am new to this technology 
> ( Ihave owned a Mark III for 24 hours)  I am wondering if there is some type of formatting 
> for the CD which is necessary.  Alternatively, perhaps I should be burning the CDs on my 
> PC?  Any ideas why the Mark III can't see or read these files? Yes, I have checked the CD, 
> the files are present and play on my Mac from the CD.  Any help would be appeciated.
> 
> Alan Milnes
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Re: [disklavier] Downloading midi files for disklavier Mark III

2004-07-02 by Jeremy Roberts

Alan,

> I have downloaded midi files to my Mac and then burned them onto a blank Cd.

You'll need to put the files onto a floppy - or play them real time into the
MIDI in.

I have macs and I bought a USB floppy drive for this.

http://www.smartdisk.com/products_Floppy.asp

http://shopper.cnet.com/SmartDisk_VST_USB_Floppy_Disk_Drive__Titanium/4014-3
216_9-21258931.html?tag=pl&q=vst+floppy+usb

About $31 mail order. I have the 1x speed drive. Don't know if 2x works.

jr

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