Transmitting Song Data Between The Computer And The Instrument - Yamaha P-155 Owner's Manual

Transmitting Song Data between the Computer and the
Instrument
In addition to the demo songs and the 50 piano preset songs stored in
this instrument, you can play data for other song by loading it from a
connected computer. To be able to use this function, you must first
download Musicsoft Downloader from Yamaha website.
http://music.yamaha.com/download/
System requirement for Musicsoft Downloader
• OS : Windows 2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional/Vista
* For XP and Vista, the 32-bit version is supported, but not the 64-bit version.
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• CPU : Intel Pentium
is recommended) or higher
• Memory : 64MB or more (256MB or more is recommended)
• Available hard : at least 128MB of free space (at least 512MB of free space is recom-
mended) disk capacity
• Display : 800 x 600 High Color (16-bit)
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• Others : Microsoft Internet Explorer
Loading Song Data from a Computer to the Instrument
You can load piano song data from a computer to this instrument. Also, after you
record your performance on this instrument and save the recording to a computer, you
can load the recording back to the instrument.
This instrument can read MIDI data in SMF Format 0. However, if such data includes
any information for functions that are not supported by this instrument, the instru-
ment will not play the data correctly.
For more information on loading song data from a computer to this instrument, please
refer to "Transferring Data Between the Computer and Instrument (for unprotected
data)" in the Help file that came with Musicsoft Downloader.
Requirements for song data that can be loaded from a computer to this
instrument
• Songs : Recorded songs (loaded from instrument), SMF Format 0 songs
• Maximum data size : 748KB
• Data format : SMF Format 0
: Backuped data (loaded from instrument)
File name
09P-M.BUP
You can play the loaded Songs (page 36).
CAUTION
Do not turn off the power to this instrument or unplug the instrument during data transmission.
Otherwise, the data being transmitted will not be saved. Furthermore, flash memory operation
may become unstable, causing the entire memory to be erased when you turn the power to the
instrument on or off.
Transmitting Song Data from the Instrument to a
Computer
Musicsoft Downloader enables you to transfer the recorded song in this instrument to
a computer. For more information on transferring song data from this instrument to a
computer, please refer to "Transferring Data Between the Computer and Instrument
(for unprotected data)" in the Help file that came with Musicsoft Downloader.
Data you can transfer from this instrument to a computer
• Your recorded songs
• Back up data : panel settings
• Song data (once it has been loaded from the computer)
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or Celeron chip of 233MHz or Higher (500 MHz or higher
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version 5.5 or higher
Connections
NOTE
You can download free Musicsoft
Downloader from the Yamaha
website.
NOTE
Do not manually change the file
name by using a computer; doing
so will render the file unable for
loading on the instrument.
TERMINOLOGY
SMF (Standard MIDI File):
This file features a popular
sequence format (for recording
performance data). This file is
sometimes called a "MIDI file."
The file extension is MID.
You can play the SMF format
song using music software or a
sequencer that supports SMF.
This instrument also supports
SMF.
NOTE
Before you use this instrument,
close the Musicsoft Downloader
window and quit the application.
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