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YDP-S31 Owner’s Manual
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Transmitting Song Data between the
Computer and the Digital Piano
You can download free Music-
soft Downloader from the
Yamaha website.
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/
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System requirement for Musicsoft Downloader
Please visit the URL above to get the latest information on the supported computer systems.
Loading Song Data from a Computer
to the Digital Piano
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.
Before you use this instrument,
close the Musicsoft Downloader
window and quit the application.
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.
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Requirements for song data that can be loaded from a computer
to this instrument
You can play the loaded songs (page 17).
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.
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Data you can transfer from this instrument to a computer
• OS
• CPU
• Memory
• Available hard
disk capacity
• Display
• Others
:
:
:
:
:
:
Windows 2000/XP Home Edition/XP Professional/Vista
* For XP and Vista, the 32-bit version is supported, but not
the 64-bit version.
Intel® Pentium® or Celeron® chip of 500MHz or higher
256MB or higher
128MB or higher (512MB or higher recommended)
800
×
600 High Color (16-bit)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 5.5 or higher
CAUTION
Do not turn off the power to
this instrument or unplug the
instrument during data trans-
mission. 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.
Keep in mind that the
[REC]
and
[PLAY]
indicators are lit
when Musicsoft Downloader
is being used.
• Number of songs
: Up to 10 songs plus one user song
• Maximum data size : Total 352 KB
• Data format
: SMF Format 0 and 07YDP.BUP (user song)
• User song
: 07YDP.BUP
• Song data (once it has been loaded from the computer)
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