This article shows my exact workflow for creating archival copies of unique or rare floppy disks, and extracting the files. This is a summary of my workflow: For more information about the Greaseweazle, see their page on GitHub. You can also read my brief comparison of the Greaseweazle and KryoFlux. If you’re looking to purchase … Read more
If you are comparing the Greaseweazle vs KryoFlux for Disklavier floppy preservation, my answer is straightforward: I recommend the Greaseweazle. I have used multiple Greaseweazles, and I love them. They are flexible, dependable, affordable, and extremely well-suited to producing archival copies of aging floppy disks. I have an article detailing how to use a Greaseweazle … Read more
If you’re struggling to read your Yamaha Disklavier or Clavinova floppy disks, you’re not alone! This guide explains why older Yamaha disks often look unreadable to PCs, what tools reliably extract the files, how DD/HD media mismatches and drive issues cause read failures—along with what to do to recover your songs. Yamaha Disks Have Copy … Read more
My first experiences with floppy disk image formats began when figuring out how to save old Yamaha floppy disks for use with a Nalbantov using a Greaseweazle. My goal was to find a clean repeatable way to image floppy disks and add floppy disk images to Nalbantov USBs in the proper formats. However, although Nalbantov’s … Read more
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So you’ve decided to back up your Yamaha Disklavier floppy disks. And now you need a floppy disk drive that can read them! So what’s the best USB floppy disk drive for our purpose, and especially for reading those earlier, pesky 720 KB double-density (DD) variants used by early Disklaviers? This article explores various options, including … Read more
If you’ve downloaded music for a Disklavier Mark III or older model with a floppy drive, you might have downloaded a PSX file. If you have one of these files, hopefully this article can help you out! What Is a PSX File? For Yamaha MusicSoft, a PSX file is an archive format that contains the … Read more
Are you shipping floppy disks to me so that I can transfer them to modern media? Or perhaps you’re just shipping some floppy disks, and arrived at this article? In either case, I can provide some guidance! Please note that this article is specifically about 3.5″ rigid floppy disks. These are commonly used with the … Read more
I use a wide variety of software tools when reading floppy disks and preparing E-SEQ and MIDI for the Yamaha Disklavier. Below is my attempt to compile the most useful tools I use on a daily basis. If you have any input or want any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me. WinImage A … Read more
Yamaha sold Smart PianoSoft floppy disks for Yamaha Marks III and IV. This was a revolutionary technology: You could insert a floppy disk designed to play the actual acoustic piano alongside an audio CD. In other words, the piano would accompany your CD! Yamaha released many such albums, and because the piano is accompanying the … Read more