Transmitting Song Data Between The Computer And The Digital Piano; Loading Song Data From A Computer To The Digital Piano; Transmitting Song Data From The Digital Piano To A Computer - Yamaha YDP-131 Owner's Manual

Transmitting Song Data between the
Computer and the Digital Piano
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 at the following URL, and install it on your computer.
http://music.yamaha.com/download/
● System requirement for Musicsoft Downloader
• OS
• CPU
• Memory
• Available hard disk capacity : 128MB or higher (512MB or higher recommended)
• Display
• Others
Loading Song Data from a Computer
to the Digital Piano
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
• Number of songs : Up to 10 songs plus one user song
• Maximum data size : Total 352 KB
• Data format : SMF Format 0 and YDP-131.BUP (user song)
Transmitting Song Data from the
Digital Piano to a Computer
Musicsoft Downloader enables you to transfer the user 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
• User song : YDP-131.BUP
• Song data (once it has been loaded from the computer)
YDP-131/YDP-213
: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional
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: Intel Pentium or Celeron
(500MHz or higher recommended)
: 64MB or higher (256MB or higher recommended)
: 800 × 600 High Color (16-bit)
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: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Transmitting Song Data between the Computer and the Digital Piano

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chip of 233MHz or higher
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version 5.5 or higher
You can download free Music-
soft Downloader from the
Yamaha website.
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.
CAUTION
Do not turn off the power to this
instrument or unplug the instru-
ment during data transmission.
Otherwise, the data being trans-
mitted will not be saved. Further-
more, flash memory operation
may become unstable, causing
the entire memory to be erased
when you turn the power to the
instrument on or off.
Before you use this instrument,
close the Musicsoft Downloader
window and quit the application.
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