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Playing Songs from a Floppy Disk<br />
The Concert Performer’s floppy disk drive provides a convenient<br />
way to playback songs recorded in the CP’s Internal Format or<br />
Standard MIDI File (SMF) format. Songs in the CP’s internal format<br />
typically are ones that you have recorded on your own instrument.<br />
There are many sources of SMF songs, including disks for sale from<br />
professional musicians and publishers, songs shared among<br />
musicians and hobbyists, and Internet sites that feature SMF songs<br />
available for download.<br />
If you wish to play a song without any intentions to make permanent<br />
changes or additional recordings, you can use the CP’s Disk Song<br />
Play function to load the song very quickly for playback. Using the<br />
disk drive in this way makes the Concert Performer an enjoyable<br />
source of entertainment for parties and other social events, as well<br />
as a great tool for the professional musician or music educator.<br />
About songs on Floppy Disk<br />
If you will use a blank disk to store and play your own compositions made on the Concert Performer,<br />
there isn’t much to worry about. The CP can format the disk (if it isn’t already formatted), and the<br />
CP’s internal song format remembers everything about your song, including which sounds to use<br />
with the recorded tracks. However, if you wish to purchase a disk of songs from your music store<br />
or publisher, play a disk given to you by someone else, or play songs downloaded from the Internet,<br />
you will need to remember a few simple points:<br />
• The CP reads only DOS formatted disks, either double-sided double-density (720KB) or high<br />
density (1.4MB). These are the most commonly used disk formats in both computers and musical<br />
instruments.<br />
• The CP recognizes song files written in the Standard MIDI File format as long as they have DOS<br />
file names ending with “.MID”. There are two types of Standard MIDI File formats, Format 0 and<br />
1. The CP can read the song data of both formats, however it will only display the lyrics of a song<br />
written as format 0.<br />
• Songs that have been composed with the General MIDI (GM) standard will sound fine without<br />
any additional work, because data in the files will inform the CP as to what sounds to use when<br />
playing the song. If the song was not composed to the GM standard, you may find it necessary to<br />
edit the song to assign the correct sounds to the various tracks. Fortunately, almost all<br />
commercially available MIDI files adhere to the General MIDI standard.<br />
P. 102<br />
<strong>Kawai</strong> Concert Performer Series Digital Piano