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Re: Electronic Reproducing Pianos
By Marc Kaufman

In Automatic Music Digest 95.09.05
Richard Huggins <rhuggins@rapidramp.com> wrote:

> The Yamaha Diskclaiver II system is MIDI-compatible. I'm not sure if
> the Pianodisc system is. The latter can be retrofitted, I believe, while
> the former must be installed as the piano is built.

Yes the PianoDisc system is MIDI in and out. It plays its own disk format as well as Disklavier format.

> I've seen a demo of
> the Disklavier II and it not only reproduces the performance (with all
> parts moving) but will also play a MIDI tone generator and thus draw
> from it added stuff, such as drums, brass, etc.

PianoDisc also can be purchased with built-in synthesizers, but unfortunately they are not the same channel arrangement as Disklavier. The original PianoDisk has a Proteus EMU-1 chip (that's the one I have). The newer ones are Proteus chips rechanneled to General Midi.

> Pre-recorded disks can
> be bought and the piano (or other tracks) can be turned off to allow
> playing along with the other accompaniment. I've also been told that the
> disk can be edited within a MIDI sequencing program, meaning that the
> performance can be altered and/or improved (wrong notes corrected, notes
> added, timing fixed, many other things) and then reinserted into the
> Diskclavier player for playback on the piano itself. Sort of the best of
> both worlds.

Many places (such as Invisible Touch Music) will sell music in either format (or as .MID files, or General Midi)

(Message sent Mon 11 Sep 1995, 05:06:35 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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