Chapter 1 Storing And Managing Songs On Disks; Using Memory Disks - Yamaha Disklavier Mark III series Advanced Operation Manual

Chapter 1
Storing and Managing Songs
on Disks
You can use the Disklavier's internal Memory Disks to store songs.
Memory Disks are ideal for storing many songs, especially when you want to program your Disklavier to
automatically play back many songs with the Chain Play or Timer Play features.
☛ See Chapter 2 "Chain Play — Playing Back Memory Disks in a Group" and Chapter 3 "Timer Play" for details.
The first section of this chapter describes Memory Disks and how to specify a disk. The following
sections describe how to copy songs and other file management utilities.
☛ To record songs to the Memory Disk, see Chapter 5 "Basic Recording".

Using Memory Disks

Memory Disks use the Disklavier flash memory
to record and play back songs. Each Memory
Disk has a memory capacity of approximately
1.44MB.
Since Memory Disks have a total of 64 megabytes
of memory, you can copy to the Memory Disks
PianoSoft songs or your favorite recordings, or
record your own songs to create your own library
of Disklavier songs.
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 recorded to the Memory Disk. They can,
however, be re-formatted as E-SEQ type disks.
Similarly, re-formatted E-SEQ type Memory
Disks can be formatted back to SMF type disks.
Note: When you reset the Disklavier, the entire
content of Memory Disks will be deleted, and
the Memory Disks will return to their initial
factory settings (SMF format, sample song
included). See Chapter 12 "Resetting Your
Disklavier" for details.
You can also re-format Memory Disks when you
want to erase all data in the disk or when you
want to convert an SMF type disk to an E-SEQ
type disk.
☛ See "Formatting Disks" on page 17.
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