From Norman Fay Sent Mon, Feb 12th 2018, 15:38
From Norman Fay Sent Mon, Feb 12th 2018, 15:38
I fitted a hxc2001 drive to my TX16W sampler when its internal disc drive failed last year. Getting it set up was a bit of a faff, and took a while. Like the one mentioned upthread, it needed to have its connector cable mounted upside down. Also, in order to transfer my existing sounds over to the card in the drive, I needed to have a PC with an internal FDD - for...some....reason (gestures vaguely)it wouldn't work with an external usb floppy drive . Anyway, it all works now and is absolutely great. I'm looking at SCSI card drives for the 2 samplers I have with a SCSI port at the moment. On 11 February 2018 at 16:06, Marshall Craig <xxxxxx@xx.xxx> wrote: > There is a current list which shows that the GEM S2/S3 will work with a > floppy drive emulator: > > http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/support.htm > > And I found a forum, which actually has some discussion of installing a > floppy drive emulator into a GEM keyboard: > > http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3D18&t=3D1099 > > It gets pretty technical- and it seems with the GEM S2/S3 you have to > reverse the connection to get it to work properly. I am sure I can proper= ly > install the drive, but then there are questions about software and settin= gs > and such, which are to me confusing. Personally I need a more explicit > step-by-step explanation, but all I want to do is be able to format a bla= nk > drive for the keyboard to save settings, I am not looking to convert and > load files (I am using the GEM S3 purely as a controller, which it does v= ery > well). I just need to know if there is anything else I have to do other t= han > just physically install the drive. > > People seem to go with the Lotharek or Gotex drives; I see similar drives= on > Amazon/eBay for under $20.00, but would prefer to get it right the first > time, so I will go with Lotharek. > > Fortunately, my floppy disk drive still works- the GEM is a bit weird in > that (at least in the non-Turbo version) it doesn=E2=80=99t save system s= etting to > RAM, you have to load them from the disk on each power-up, or re-do all y= our > system, performance, track, etc, setting from scratch. > > > On Feb 11, 2018, at 12:54 AM, Andrew Dean <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote= : > > I have a Lotharek HxC in my Mirage. Works great. 100+ disks on hand witho= ut > the... disks :) > > https://lotharek.pl > > I have seen generic floppy emulators on auction sites lately, but I"m not > sure if they can emulate the range of formats Lotharek does > > On 11 February 2018 at 20:24, Boniforti Flavio <xxxxxxxxx.x@xxxxx.xxx> > wrote: >> >> I think it could be useful to other here too :-) I also got a GEM S2 Tur= bo >> and have thought about putting an SD Card reader (and FDD emulator) in i= t... >> >> F. >> >> https://soundcloud.com/bonnyfused >> >> 2018-02-11 3:12 GMT+01:00 Marshall Craig <xxxxxx@xx.xxx>: >>> >>> I have recently re-acquired a Generalmusic GEM S3 (76 keys, polyAT!) >>> which has a floppy drive. It is still working, but I am looking into >>> installing a Floppy Drive Emulator. Does anyone on the list have any >>> experience with these and can answer some questions? Please reply off l= ist >>> (unless you think this may be relevant to AH). >>> >>> thx! >>> >>> -Marshall >> >> > >