


Using the tools below, you can convert MIDI files to eSEQ so that it will speak your Disklavier’s native language! If you’re adding new music to a floppy disk and have an older Disklaviers (including the popular MX100B), you’ll need to make sure the files are in Yamaha’s proprietary eSEQ format. If you want your floppy disks files saved on a more modern media, you can also mail your floppy disks to me (please reach out to me at or through my Contact page). This post is intended to help you read from, write to, or replace Yamaha Disklavier floppy disks. And some are interested in writing altogether new songs to their floppies so they can finally listen to something new! Some of them just want to be able to backup their disks so they can make new ones later. It is certainly doable, but the added effort and room for error might not be worth the cost of just buying a second emulator.Some of my customers choose to upgrade their older Disklavier’s floppy drive to a Nalbantov USB drive, and want to know how to copy songs from their old Disklavier floppy disks so they can put them on USB. If you use an interface program like the disk emulator, you will have to jump through the hoops of using that to manually load the files through their interface. That way you can use the selector on the front to pick what disk you want to be using and treat it like a physical disk (drag/drop files, etc). Put one in the machine and one in your computer. You could spend a while trying various bits of software to make it work, but given your comment about not being a computer person, I think you would be better off buying a pair of new ones. The manual for CNC Floppy Emulation Manager Tool that th90 mentioned says that it requires 7mb per disk and is compatible with floppy disk images. The one I linked above uses slightly more memory than the size of the disk itself because it is just writing to memory locations and ignoring all the metadata. The windows gui will only let you pick the file formats it thinks are your best options.ĭoing some more research on a variety of these emulators, there appear to be several methods in use to encode the different disks. Rufus ( Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way) is a good program for testing out various formatting options on a drive. The FAT16 vs FAT32 is something that is likely to trip you up as well.
