Chapter 12 Storing And Managing Songs On Disks; Memory Disks; Specifying A Disk - Yamaha Disklavier Operation Manual

Chapter 12
Storing and Managing Songs
on Disks
The Disklavier can play back songs stored on floppy disks, such as PianoSoft and PianoSoft . Plus song
disks, or songs copied to its Memory Disks.
The first section of this chapter describes Memory Disks and how to specify a disk for playback. The
following sections describe how to copy songs and other song file management utilities common to both
floppy disks and Memory Disks.

Memory Disks

Memory Disks use the Disklavier flash memory
to store songs. Each Memory Disk has a memory
capacity of 1 MB.
Since the Memory Disks have a total of
16 Mbytes of memory, you can copy to the
Memory Disks PianoSoft songs or your favorite
recordings stored on floppy disks and create your
own library of Disklavier songs. This is especially
ideal when you want to program your Disklavier
to automatically play back many songs
continuously as in Chain Play and Timer Play.
☛ See Chapter 13 "Chain Play – Playing Back
Memory Disks in a Group" and Chapter 14 "Timer
Play" for details.
The Memory Disks are formatted in the SMF
(Standard MIDI File) disk format, giving you the
most versatility, as both SMF and E-SEQ songs
can be stored. They can, however, be re-
formatted as E-SEQ type disks.
☛ See "Converting Disk Type" on page 63.
You can also re-format Memory Disks when you
want to erase all data in a Memory Disk or when
you want to convert an SMF type disk to an
E-SEQ type disk.
☛ See "Formatting Disks" on page 61.
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Specifying a Disk

In effect, the Disklavier has 17 disks (1 floppy
disk and 16 Memory Disks) for storing song data.
Therefore, before you can play back songs, you
must specify which disk you want to play back.
The 16 Memory Disks are numbered from 0 to 9
and A to F, and the floppy disk is named "Fd."
The number or name of the selected disk appears
in the display.
Press [DRIVE] as many times as
necessary until the desired disk
number appears on the left side
of the display.
DRIVE
Each press of the [DRIVE] button toggles
the floppy disk and Memory Disks (0 to 9
and A to F).
Note: "Fd" appears only when a floppy disk
is in the disk drive.
The disk you specify also flashes in the
bottom row of the display.
Note: "x" indicates Memory Disks that are
unformatted or contain no songs.
Flashes