Summary of PianoDisc Remote App's Features and Functions.
A Detailed Explanation of App Features:
*Gives you Balance control between the Piano and Audio. As in two faders or mixers. Both are placed vertically on the main page of the app which we will call Main from here on out. You simply adjust the balance between the piano and audio with those faders. One is named Piano, and the other is called Audio. Audio stands for orchestration, or background/accompaniment music that plays along with the piano and is sent to the piano's speaker or to a house's speaker system, or any other speaker network for that matter. The app has a total of three faders. One for Piano, one for Audio, and one Master Fader which controls Piano and Audio together. You can place the Master Fader in Main if you choose to, or you can remove it to simplify Main's user interface. There is a button called [Master V] in Main. With this button, you can insert and remove the Master Fader from Main. This button can also be removed from Main by going into Service and turning off the "Show Volume Toggle in Main" button. If you prefer to have Master in Main all the time, then while in Main turn it on by pushing the [Master V]. Now go into Service by entering the code 0000. Once you're in there, turn off the "Show Volume Toggle in Main" button. If you prefer to not have Master in Main and also prefer to not have the [Master V] toggle switch, then go to Service again, and turn off the "Show Toggle in Main" button again.
*Limit control. You can program a minimum volume for the piano and audio of your piano. This will prevent the piano from dying when you turn the volume down all the way. You can also then program an upper limit for the piano and audio. This will prevent the piano from self-destructing by playing too loudly. This will also protect your piano's speaker from being over-driven. These Limits are very easy to set.
*Completely wireless when used with a relatively new Apple device. You need either AirPort Express or Apple Tv both made by Apple to make your piano player wirelessly. You also obviously need an iPod/iPad/iPhone or iTunes. Keep in mind, iTunes does not support the app. However, you can still easily connect to your piano with iTunes and stream your music that way. However, you won't have all of the powerful and fun features that the app has to offer.
One other thing regarding iTunes on your computer. If you use this, you won't have any balance control. You'll have to climb under the piano to adjust the speaker to the music. iTunes may have a hidden balance control. Apple's latest operating system does have a balance control but it's cumbersome to get to. I mention this because iTunes might also have a hidden balance control. The iPod itself has an upper limit volume control but it only works when a pair of headphones are plugged into it. The app doesn't care if anything is plugged into it, its limits and levels still work.
*Flexible in that this app can be used with an AV composite cable, 1/8" stereo mini cable, AirPort Express, and Apple TV.
*Easy PianoDisc Radio. You now have extremely easy access to PianoDisc Radio. Without this app, it's a bit cumbersome to access PianoDisc's streaming Radio. This app simplifies it. You simply connect to your home internet with your device. Find out what your password is at home, then go to settings with your device. Touch Wi-Fi. Now look for your home network. Touch it to join it. Enter your password. Next, get under your piano. Find a white little box built by Apple that's about the size of your palm. Push and hold a small reset button that's located by all of the output ports of that device. Push that little button gently with a pencil or something similar for about 20 seconds or until you see an amber light start to flash. Once it starts to flash, you'll know that you have reset AirPort. Now wait for a minute until it while it reboots. Now go to settings again on your device. Touch Wi-Fi. If you have a relatively new device, the device will find AirPort. It will ask you if you'd like to configure it. Follow the onscreen instructions, and have AirPort join your existing network. Once again, you'll need your home internet's password. If you don't have it, call your provider. Once AirPort Express has joined your home network, you'll be ready to use PianoDisc Radio. Start PianoDisc Remote App. Touch Service. Enter 0000, touch the "Show Pd Radio in Main" button. Touch done. You'll now see a "PD Radio" button in Main. Touch it, wait for a minute for it to find a streaming signal. Once it does, just push play and your piano will start to play. If the app can't find a signal, it will let you know.
Here's a little more information regarding PianoDisc Radio:
This is a fun feature to have. However, it does have some drawbacks. First of all, in order for this to work, your piano or better said its AirPort Express, needs to join your home network. Once you've made this happen, then your piano becomes dependent upon your home network. If there are any glitches or downtime, your piano will be affected by them. The communication is slightly better between the app and your piano when AirPort Express is setup as its own network. This is because a direct line of communication is established between your device and your piano. If your home network is involved, it essentially becomes a third party translator. But don't worry too much about this. Consider the internet that you have at home. How often is it down? If it is constantly on and ready to go when you use your computer, having your piano be part of your home network won't be a problem. If your internet is regularly down, then skip PianoDisc Radio for now. Get a new modem or router, or contact your service provider.
PianoDisc Radio OFF by default. You have to turn it on by going to Service. And as stated above, another reason for not having it be on by default is because of the fact that you have to be connected to your home network.
*Presets. These work just like your car stereo. You set your favorite Low, Medium, and High volume/balance levels, then push in a preset button until the whole screen flashes white. This indicates that the preset that you pushed and held has been saved.
*Mute Buttons These are fun to have. Without the app, you can't mute your piano or audio individually and separately. If you want to play along with let's say the orchestration from Popular Hits (one of PianoDisc's albums) just turn off the piano by pushing the piano mute button. If you think that you can sing better than Karen Carpenter, turn her off by pushing the speaker mute button. Now you get to sing. Or vice versa, turn off the piano and play along with her.
*Mute Recall This is a nice feature to have. An extraordinary amount of PianoDisc music has been recorded. Many albums were recorded for some of the earlier PianoDisc systems. A lot of this music was for piano only. No speaker was ever intended to be connected while this music was playing. With some of this piano only music, the piano signal was recorded on the piano and audio channels. Because of this, you'll sometimes hear birds chirping in your speaker. As in; fax-like computer sounds coming from the speaker. If you ever hear this, push the audio mute button. A pop up window will appear. It will say "Mute Audio". It has two buttons: "Enable Mute" and "Remember Song". If you'd rather just mute that song for the time being, touch Enable mute. If you'd like the app to remember to turn off the speaker the next time that particular song plays, touch Remember song. The next time the song plays, you won't hear the birds chirping.
*Schedule: This is another fun feature especially for restaurants, care centers, hospitals etc. You can program the piano to play any day or time of the week and for any duration. You can also choose your source directory. As in, a drawer from Music Chest or PianoDisc Radio. Remember what has been said about PianoDisc Radio. It's not guaranteed to play back like Music Chest would. Remember Music Chest is just a simplified version of a Playlist that many of you are already familiar
*Music Button. This is your iTunes library. You touch Music, and iTunes appears. There you can choose an artist, album, song, playlist or artist.
*Music Chest. This is a very simple to use playlist or jukebox. You simply touch Music Chest. A beautiful chest of drawers appears. You then touch a drawer, drop music into it, and push play. There is a Repeat button inside of each drawer. Push the Repeat to hear the contents of that drawer repeat or loop indefinitely. After you touch a drawer, touch the word "Untitled" up at the top of the page. Now name that drawer whatever you'd like. Push play. The contents of the selected drawer start to play. If you touch the Repeat button, the name of the drawer will scroll across the name tag of the drawer in Main. If Repeat has not been selected, the name will be static.
*Service. Here you the user can do quite a bit. If you can make it through this user guide and understand it, you'll easily be able to set up or calibrate this app to your piano. In service there are a whole bunch of features. Service Mode has a code to keep others from tampering with your settings. This default code is 0000. You can change this once you're in Service to any code you want. The key to having this app work properly is to have all of your Maximum and Minimum Piano and Audio Levels set. In the Service Mode, you'll be able to do this.
*Master V. The [Master V] is our volume toggle. As in it places and removes your device's Master Volume Control in Main. Think of this fader as the mechanical volume switch of your device. Speaking of which; The mechanical switch of your device is turned off while PianoDisc Remote is running.
If Master fader is present, the volume of the piano and audio change almost instantly. If you remove Master, then there is a slight delay. Then you've only got a piano and audio fader. When these are adjusted, the piano won't respond for about one second. You can choose to have the Master Fader present or not in Main by going to Settings. It's no big deal to switch between the two modes.
As mentioned earlier, Master in Main is very fast. When you move it, the piano responds. When Master isn't present in Main, you're left with a piano and audio fader. This is the simplest user interface. You are given a choice between the two modes of operation because one (Master in Main) is really fast. The other (No Master in Main), has a one second delay when changing volume.
When the piano and audio faders are alone, they have a slight delay. When Master Fader is present in Main, it doesn't have a noticeable delay, but the balance faders don't seem to do as much. As you increase Master's volume, the effect of the balance faders increases. Just keep this in mind. Master in Main is there so that you can instantly adjust the overall volume of your piano once the balance between piano and audio has been set.
*Lock Code. Here you can enter a 4 digit code to keep others from messing with your settings. The default code for this app is 0000. You can change this to anything you want once you're in [Settings]. Touch the button called [Set Pass Code]".
*If you forget the four digit code. If you ever forget your code, touch the [Help] button in Main.
Go to the bottom of the Help page. You'll see a button that says "CLC". This stand for Clear Lock Code. Touch that, and the app will say "Would you like to clear the lock code? Then touch the "Clear" button. The app has now been reset with its default lock code which is 0000. You'll notice that you also have a Reset button here. This reset button will reset the app to its original default settings.
*Two modes of operation which are described in detail later on in this guide. Those two modes are: Master in Main and No Master in Main. These two modes of operation are a matter of personal preference. One controls the balance a little better than the other. But the other offers extreme speed when changing the piano/audio volume as in practically no delay or latency. Master in Main provides this extreme speed wirelessly. When Master is not present in Main, you'll only see two faders. One for piano and one for audio. This mode is simpler, but there is an inherent delay that for the time being can't be changed. With this mode, an audio file is sent to AirPort express, AirPort express then alters the music and sends it out to the piano. The app does not tweak the music in this mode. It simply tells AirPort what to do. AirPort receives the pure music or signal, and then receives instructions from the app and then performs those instructions on the music and then pipes it to the piano. Thus the delay. The delay is only about one second. If your iPod (or other device) is hard wired directly to the piano then there is no delay even when Master is no Present in Main. REMEMBER TO TRY RUNNING THE APP WITH TURBO ON. GO TO SETTINGS AND TURN IT ON. NOW CHECK FADERS TO SEE IF THEY RUN SMOOTHLY. IF THEY DO, YOUR DEVICE IS FAST ENOUGH TO RUN TURBO.
Let's talk a little bit more about these two modes. No Master Volume in Main and Master Volume in Main. No Master Volume in Main: This is a very simple user interface. Here you'll see only two faders. One for piano, and one for audio. The only drawback is that because our master volume control isn't there, there is a small delay when controlling your piano wirelessly. This is no big deal, and you'll get used to it. It's only about one second. There is currently no way to get around this. If you're a dealership or technician, to make things simple, you might want to just set the app up without Master in Main. As in no [Master V] toggle.
It might be too big of a hassle to explain it to your customers. To set up the app so that it only has two volume controls namely Piano and Audio, do the following: Repeatedly touch the [Master V] toggle that's in Main so that you can see how the Master Fader comes and goes. Once it's gone, go into [Settings] by entering the digits 0000. Once in Settings, touch the button that says [Show Volume Toggle in Main]. Make sure that its little light or Led is off. Touch "Done" at the bottom of the screen. Verify that the [Master V] toggle switch is gone. Not having your devices master volume control is the simplest way to control the pianos volumes/levels/limits and balances. The upper and lower limits for the piano and audio are right in front of you but you can't tell. When you turn up the speaker, it only reaches a certain programmable upper limit, when you turn it down, it only descends to a certain programmable lower limit. When you turn up the piano, it only reaches an upper programmable limit. When you turn down the piano, it only descends to a certain programmable lower limit. Both of these limits are very easy to set. As mentioned various times throughout this text, there is a slight inherent delay when you only have the Piano and Audio faders present in Main with no Master. But it's only one second. To set up or calibrate your piano, go down to "Setting up your piano".
*Cool little detail. Go into Settings Mode. Touch the word "Remote" up at the top of the page. Now write whatever you'd like. Whatever you write will be placed underneath PianoDisc's logo.
*Counter. You'll notice a small counter by the bottom of the Piano fader. This ensures that a song is playing. A song will usually start to play when the counter gets to about 4 or five seconds. an open circuit, noise will be present. Once AirPort finishes booting up, then the noise usually goes away because it connects the speaker to the piano. When you're done, use cable ties to neatly secure all wires.
Side note: The app won't seem to work right if your piano doesn't. The music will sound horrible if your piano hasn't been finely tuned. It would be worth it to pay a good technician to go over your piano and make sure that everything is working properly. It takes a skilled technician to work on a player system. Make sure to find someone who can not only tune, but who has a good understanding of PianoDisc. If you can find someone like that in your area, you'll be so much happier with your piano and this app. One of the biggest challenges with a player system, is finding the best possible adjustment for the sustain pedal. There is a big solenoid under the piano that activates your piano's sustain pedal when the piano is playing. That solenoid is very powerful. Because of its power, it needs to be adjusted and tamed just right or you sustain pedal will thump. Not only that, but the music won't sound right if it's not adjusted properly. You don't want the music to sound choppy, or to sound like the sustain pedal is on the whole time. The proper adjustment of the pedal will prevent either of these scenarios. Keep in mind, speaking from experience, it's tough to get a perfect adjustment for the pedal. But with a little bit of adjustment by trial and error and understanding, you can find a happy medium for the pedal.
*Gives you Balance control between the Piano and Audio. As in two faders or mixers. Both are placed vertically on the main page of the app which we will call Main from here on out. You simply adjust the balance between the piano and audio with those faders. One is named Piano, and the other is called Audio. Audio stands for orchestration, or background/accompaniment music that plays along with the piano and is sent to the piano's speaker or to a house's speaker system, or any other speaker network for that matter. The app has a total of three faders. One for Piano, one for Audio, and one Master Fader which controls Piano and Audio together. You can place the Master Fader in Main if you choose to, or you can remove it to simplify Main's user interface. There is a button called [Master V] in Main. With this button, you can insert and remove the Master Fader from Main. This button can also be removed from Main by going into Service and turning off the "Show Volume Toggle in Main" button. If you prefer to have Master in Main all the time, then while in Main turn it on by pushing the [Master V]. Now go into Service by entering the code 0000. Once you're in there, turn off the "Show Volume Toggle in Main" button. If you prefer to not have Master in Main and also prefer to not have the [Master V] toggle switch, then go to Service again, and turn off the "Show Toggle in Main" button again.
*Limit control. You can program a minimum volume for the piano and audio of your piano. This will prevent the piano from dying when you turn the volume down all the way. You can also then program an upper limit for the piano and audio. This will prevent the piano from self-destructing by playing too loudly. This will also protect your piano's speaker from being over-driven. These Limits are very easy to set.
*Completely wireless when used with a relatively new Apple device. You need either AirPort Express or Apple Tv both made by Apple to make your piano player wirelessly. You also obviously need an iPod/iPad/iPhone or iTunes. Keep in mind, iTunes does not support the app. However, you can still easily connect to your piano with iTunes and stream your music that way. However, you won't have all of the powerful and fun features that the app has to offer.
One other thing regarding iTunes on your computer. If you use this, you won't have any balance control. You'll have to climb under the piano to adjust the speaker to the music. iTunes may have a hidden balance control. Apple's latest operating system does have a balance control but it's cumbersome to get to. I mention this because iTunes might also have a hidden balance control. The iPod itself has an upper limit volume control but it only works when a pair of headphones are plugged into it. The app doesn't care if anything is plugged into it, its limits and levels still work.
*Flexible in that this app can be used with an AV composite cable, 1/8" stereo mini cable, AirPort Express, and Apple TV.
*Easy PianoDisc Radio. You now have extremely easy access to PianoDisc Radio. Without this app, it's a bit cumbersome to access PianoDisc's streaming Radio. This app simplifies it. You simply connect to your home internet with your device. Find out what your password is at home, then go to settings with your device. Touch Wi-Fi. Now look for your home network. Touch it to join it. Enter your password. Next, get under your piano. Find a white little box built by Apple that's about the size of your palm. Push and hold a small reset button that's located by all of the output ports of that device. Push that little button gently with a pencil or something similar for about 20 seconds or until you see an amber light start to flash. Once it starts to flash, you'll know that you have reset AirPort. Now wait for a minute until it while it reboots. Now go to settings again on your device. Touch Wi-Fi. If you have a relatively new device, the device will find AirPort. It will ask you if you'd like to configure it. Follow the onscreen instructions, and have AirPort join your existing network. Once again, you'll need your home internet's password. If you don't have it, call your provider. Once AirPort Express has joined your home network, you'll be ready to use PianoDisc Radio. Start PianoDisc Remote App. Touch Service. Enter 0000, touch the "Show Pd Radio in Main" button. Touch done. You'll now see a "PD Radio" button in Main. Touch it, wait for a minute for it to find a streaming signal. Once it does, just push play and your piano will start to play. If the app can't find a signal, it will let you know.
Here's a little more information regarding PianoDisc Radio:
This is a fun feature to have. However, it does have some drawbacks. First of all, in order for this to work, your piano or better said its AirPort Express, needs to join your home network. Once you've made this happen, then your piano becomes dependent upon your home network. If there are any glitches or downtime, your piano will be affected by them. The communication is slightly better between the app and your piano when AirPort Express is setup as its own network. This is because a direct line of communication is established between your device and your piano. If your home network is involved, it essentially becomes a third party translator. But don't worry too much about this. Consider the internet that you have at home. How often is it down? If it is constantly on and ready to go when you use your computer, having your piano be part of your home network won't be a problem. If your internet is regularly down, then skip PianoDisc Radio for now. Get a new modem or router, or contact your service provider.
PianoDisc Radio OFF by default. You have to turn it on by going to Service. And as stated above, another reason for not having it be on by default is because of the fact that you have to be connected to your home network.
*Presets. These work just like your car stereo. You set your favorite Low, Medium, and High volume/balance levels, then push in a preset button until the whole screen flashes white. This indicates that the preset that you pushed and held has been saved.
*Mute Buttons These are fun to have. Without the app, you can't mute your piano or audio individually and separately. If you want to play along with let's say the orchestration from Popular Hits (one of PianoDisc's albums) just turn off the piano by pushing the piano mute button. If you think that you can sing better than Karen Carpenter, turn her off by pushing the speaker mute button. Now you get to sing. Or vice versa, turn off the piano and play along with her.
*Mute Recall This is a nice feature to have. An extraordinary amount of PianoDisc music has been recorded. Many albums were recorded for some of the earlier PianoDisc systems. A lot of this music was for piano only. No speaker was ever intended to be connected while this music was playing. With some of this piano only music, the piano signal was recorded on the piano and audio channels. Because of this, you'll sometimes hear birds chirping in your speaker. As in; fax-like computer sounds coming from the speaker. If you ever hear this, push the audio mute button. A pop up window will appear. It will say "Mute Audio". It has two buttons: "Enable Mute" and "Remember Song". If you'd rather just mute that song for the time being, touch Enable mute. If you'd like the app to remember to turn off the speaker the next time that particular song plays, touch Remember song. The next time the song plays, you won't hear the birds chirping.
*Schedule: This is another fun feature especially for restaurants, care centers, hospitals etc. You can program the piano to play any day or time of the week and for any duration. You can also choose your source directory. As in, a drawer from Music Chest or PianoDisc Radio. Remember what has been said about PianoDisc Radio. It's not guaranteed to play back like Music Chest would. Remember Music Chest is just a simplified version of a Playlist that many of you are already familiar
*Music Button. This is your iTunes library. You touch Music, and iTunes appears. There you can choose an artist, album, song, playlist or artist.
*Music Chest. This is a very simple to use playlist or jukebox. You simply touch Music Chest. A beautiful chest of drawers appears. You then touch a drawer, drop music into it, and push play. There is a Repeat button inside of each drawer. Push the Repeat to hear the contents of that drawer repeat or loop indefinitely. After you touch a drawer, touch the word "Untitled" up at the top of the page. Now name that drawer whatever you'd like. Push play. The contents of the selected drawer start to play. If you touch the Repeat button, the name of the drawer will scroll across the name tag of the drawer in Main. If Repeat has not been selected, the name will be static.
*Service. Here you the user can do quite a bit. If you can make it through this user guide and understand it, you'll easily be able to set up or calibrate this app to your piano. In service there are a whole bunch of features. Service Mode has a code to keep others from tampering with your settings. This default code is 0000. You can change this once you're in Service to any code you want. The key to having this app work properly is to have all of your Maximum and Minimum Piano and Audio Levels set. In the Service Mode, you'll be able to do this.
*Master V. The [Master V] is our volume toggle. As in it places and removes your device's Master Volume Control in Main. Think of this fader as the mechanical volume switch of your device. Speaking of which; The mechanical switch of your device is turned off while PianoDisc Remote is running.
If Master fader is present, the volume of the piano and audio change almost instantly. If you remove Master, then there is a slight delay. Then you've only got a piano and audio fader. When these are adjusted, the piano won't respond for about one second. You can choose to have the Master Fader present or not in Main by going to Settings. It's no big deal to switch between the two modes.
As mentioned earlier, Master in Main is very fast. When you move it, the piano responds. When Master isn't present in Main, you're left with a piano and audio fader. This is the simplest user interface. You are given a choice between the two modes of operation because one (Master in Main) is really fast. The other (No Master in Main), has a one second delay when changing volume.
When the piano and audio faders are alone, they have a slight delay. When Master Fader is present in Main, it doesn't have a noticeable delay, but the balance faders don't seem to do as much. As you increase Master's volume, the effect of the balance faders increases. Just keep this in mind. Master in Main is there so that you can instantly adjust the overall volume of your piano once the balance between piano and audio has been set.
*Lock Code. Here you can enter a 4 digit code to keep others from messing with your settings. The default code for this app is 0000. You can change this to anything you want once you're in [Settings]. Touch the button called [Set Pass Code]".
*If you forget the four digit code. If you ever forget your code, touch the [Help] button in Main.
Go to the bottom of the Help page. You'll see a button that says "CLC". This stand for Clear Lock Code. Touch that, and the app will say "Would you like to clear the lock code? Then touch the "Clear" button. The app has now been reset with its default lock code which is 0000. You'll notice that you also have a Reset button here. This reset button will reset the app to its original default settings.
*Two modes of operation which are described in detail later on in this guide. Those two modes are: Master in Main and No Master in Main. These two modes of operation are a matter of personal preference. One controls the balance a little better than the other. But the other offers extreme speed when changing the piano/audio volume as in practically no delay or latency. Master in Main provides this extreme speed wirelessly. When Master is not present in Main, you'll only see two faders. One for piano and one for audio. This mode is simpler, but there is an inherent delay that for the time being can't be changed. With this mode, an audio file is sent to AirPort express, AirPort express then alters the music and sends it out to the piano. The app does not tweak the music in this mode. It simply tells AirPort what to do. AirPort receives the pure music or signal, and then receives instructions from the app and then performs those instructions on the music and then pipes it to the piano. Thus the delay. The delay is only about one second. If your iPod (or other device) is hard wired directly to the piano then there is no delay even when Master is no Present in Main. REMEMBER TO TRY RUNNING THE APP WITH TURBO ON. GO TO SETTINGS AND TURN IT ON. NOW CHECK FADERS TO SEE IF THEY RUN SMOOTHLY. IF THEY DO, YOUR DEVICE IS FAST ENOUGH TO RUN TURBO.
Let's talk a little bit more about these two modes. No Master Volume in Main and Master Volume in Main. No Master Volume in Main: This is a very simple user interface. Here you'll see only two faders. One for piano, and one for audio. The only drawback is that because our master volume control isn't there, there is a small delay when controlling your piano wirelessly. This is no big deal, and you'll get used to it. It's only about one second. There is currently no way to get around this. If you're a dealership or technician, to make things simple, you might want to just set the app up without Master in Main. As in no [Master V] toggle.
It might be too big of a hassle to explain it to your customers. To set up the app so that it only has two volume controls namely Piano and Audio, do the following: Repeatedly touch the [Master V] toggle that's in Main so that you can see how the Master Fader comes and goes. Once it's gone, go into [Settings] by entering the digits 0000. Once in Settings, touch the button that says [Show Volume Toggle in Main]. Make sure that its little light or Led is off. Touch "Done" at the bottom of the screen. Verify that the [Master V] toggle switch is gone. Not having your devices master volume control is the simplest way to control the pianos volumes/levels/limits and balances. The upper and lower limits for the piano and audio are right in front of you but you can't tell. When you turn up the speaker, it only reaches a certain programmable upper limit, when you turn it down, it only descends to a certain programmable lower limit. When you turn up the piano, it only reaches an upper programmable limit. When you turn down the piano, it only descends to a certain programmable lower limit. Both of these limits are very easy to set. As mentioned various times throughout this text, there is a slight inherent delay when you only have the Piano and Audio faders present in Main with no Master. But it's only one second. To set up or calibrate your piano, go down to "Setting up your piano".
*Cool little detail. Go into Settings Mode. Touch the word "Remote" up at the top of the page. Now write whatever you'd like. Whatever you write will be placed underneath PianoDisc's logo.
*Counter. You'll notice a small counter by the bottom of the Piano fader. This ensures that a song is playing. A song will usually start to play when the counter gets to about 4 or five seconds. an open circuit, noise will be present. Once AirPort finishes booting up, then the noise usually goes away because it connects the speaker to the piano. When you're done, use cable ties to neatly secure all wires.
Side note: The app won't seem to work right if your piano doesn't. The music will sound horrible if your piano hasn't been finely tuned. It would be worth it to pay a good technician to go over your piano and make sure that everything is working properly. It takes a skilled technician to work on a player system. Make sure to find someone who can not only tune, but who has a good understanding of PianoDisc. If you can find someone like that in your area, you'll be so much happier with your piano and this app. One of the biggest challenges with a player system, is finding the best possible adjustment for the sustain pedal. There is a big solenoid under the piano that activates your piano's sustain pedal when the piano is playing. That solenoid is very powerful. Because of its power, it needs to be adjusted and tamed just right or you sustain pedal will thump. Not only that, but the music won't sound right if it's not adjusted properly. You don't want the music to sound choppy, or to sound like the sustain pedal is on the whole time. The proper adjustment of the pedal will prevent either of these scenarios. Keep in mind, speaking from experience, it's tough to get a perfect adjustment for the pedal. But with a little bit of adjustment by trial and error and understanding, you can find a happy medium for the pedal.
Lock Code. Enter 0000 to get into service. Change to whatever you want.
Clear Lock Code: In case you forget your code, touch the (i) button. Push the "CLC" button to set code back to 0000.
Music Chest: This is a simple way of creating a playlist. Open a drawer, name it, and fill it with music.
Schedule: Program the piano to start and stop any time of the day for any duration. Choose a drawer from Music Chest.
PianoDisc Radio: Finally we have very simple PianoDisc radio. Have your piano join your home network, and you'll have PD radio.
AirPlay icon. Look for this when using PianoDisc Remote, Pandora, and YouTube.
AirPort Express: This is your Piano's wireless reciever. It becomes its own network under your piano.
This is Apple TV. You can also connect this under your piano and use it as your wireless receiver. This device will also play PianoDisc Videos. You'll need a monitor close to the piano. The App does not support video yet, but hopefully it will soon.