Yamaha YDP-151 Owner's Manual - Page 31

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 : Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional • CPU : Intel® Pentium® or Celeron® chip of 233MHz or higher (500MHz or higher recommended) • Memory : 64MB or higher (256MB or higher recommended) • Available hard disk capacity: 128MB or higher (512MB or higher recommended) • Display : 800 × 600 High Color (16-bit) • Others : Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 5.5 or higher You can download free Musicsoft Downloader from the Yamaha website. 29 ENGLISH 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 instrument 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-151.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-151.BUP • Song data (once it has been loaded from the computer) 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 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. Before you use this instrument, close the Musicsoft Downloader window and quit the application. YDP-151/YDP-323 Transmitting Song Data between the Computer and the Digital Piano 31