System Requirements; Software Installation - Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-S500 Owner's Manual

Accessory CD-ROM Installation Guide

System Requirements

Application/Data
Musicsoft Downloader
USB Driver for Windows
98/Me
USB Driver for Windows
2000/XP
Digital Music Notebook
Digital Music Notebook
(Requirements for
playing content with
video included.)

Software Installation

● Uninstall (Removing the Software)
Installed software can be removed from your
computer as follows:
From the Windows Start menu select Start →
Settings → Control panel → Add or Remove
Applications → Install and Uninstall. Select the
item you want to remove and click [Add or
Remove]. Follow the on-screen instructions to
remove the selected software.
NOTE
• The actual names of the menu items and buttons will depend on
the OS version you are using.
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OS
Windows 98SE/Me/2000/ 233 MHz or higher; Intel
XP Home Edition/ Pentium
XP Professional processor family
Windows 98/Me
166 MHz or higher; Intel
Pentium
Windows 2000/XP Home
processor family
Edition/XP Professional
400MHz or higher; Intel
Windows ® XP
Pentium
Professional Edition,
Processor family (1GHz
SP1a more
or more is recommended)
Windows ® XP Home
1GHz or higher; Intel
Edition, SP1a more
Pentium
Windows 2000
Processor family (1.4GHz
Professional, SP4 more
or more is recommended)
CPU Memory
®
64 MB or more
® /Celeron ® (256 MB or more
is recommended)
®
32 MB or more
® /Celeron ® (64 MB or more is
recommended)
®
128 MB or more
® /Celeron ®
(256 MB or more
is recommended)
®
® /Celeron ®
256 MB or more
■ Installing the USB-MIDI Driver
In order to be able to communicate with and use
MIDI devices connected to your computer, the
appropriate driver software must be properly
installed on your computer.
The USB-MIDI driver allows sequence software
and similar applications on your computer to trans-
mit and receive MIDI data to and from MIDI
devices via a USB cable.
Computer
Sequence
software
USB Cable
Driver
• Windows 98/Me installation ➔ page 91.
• Windows 2000 installation ➔ page 91.
• Windows XP installation ➔ page 92.
Check the drive name of the CD-ROM drive you
will be using (D:, E:, Q: etc.) The drive name is
displayed beside the CD-ROM icon in your "My
Computer" folder. The root directory of the CD-
ROM drive will be D:\ , E:\ , or Q:\ , respectively.
Hard Disk Display
at least 128 MB of
free space (at least 800 x 600
512 MB of free HighColor
space is (16-bit)
recommended)
at least 3 MB of free
—
space
1024 x 768
at least 50 MB of
HighColor
free space
(16-bit)
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MIDI device