Yamaha P155 Transmitting Song Data between the Computer and the Instrument

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P-155 Owner’s Manual

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Transmitting Song Data between the Computer and the Instrument

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.

http://music.yamaha.com/download/

System requirement for Musicsoft Downloader

Loading Song Data from a Computer to the Instrument

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

You can play the loaded Songs (page 36).

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.

Transmitting Song Data from the Instrument to a

Computer

Musicsoft Downloader enables you to transfer the recorded 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

You can download free Musicsoft

Downloader from the Yamaha

website.

Do not manually change the ﬁle

name by using a computer; doing

so will render the ﬁle unable for

loading on the instrument.

NOTE

•OS:Windows 2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional/Vista

*For XP and Vista, the 32-bit version is supported, but not the 64-bit version.

• CPU : Intel® Pentium® or Celeron® chip of 233MHz or Higher (500 MHz or higher

is recommended) or higher

• Memory : 64MB or more (256MB or more is recommended)

•Available hard : at least 128MB of free space (at least 512MB of free space is recom-

mended) disk capacity

• Display : 800 x 600 High Color (16-bit)

• Others : Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 5.5 or higher

TERMINOLOGY

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.

• Songs : Recorded songs (loaded from instrument), SMF Format 0 songs

• Maximum data size : 748KB

• Data format : SMF Format 0

: Backuped data (loaded from instrument)

File name

09P-M.BUP

Before you use this instrument,

close the Musicsoft Downloader

window and quit the application.

NOTE

•Your recorded songs

• Back up data : panel settings

• Song data (once it has been loaded from the computer)