28 Sep
2015
28 Sep
'15
2:04 p.m.
Hey Colin,
Thanks for the info on your setup. Somehow I figured it wouldn't be such a
stretch to get a floppy drive setup working on Yosemite, but it looks like
I was a little too cavalier.
Space is at a premium in my Brooklyn apartment, but maybe I could grab a G4
Mac Mini from eBay and do something similar to what you're doing. But I'm
guessing a good next step before that is to:
1) get my hands on some sample disks
2) hook up the video output from the S-550 to make things a little more
manageable.
I'm talking to someone about the disks they have around, but in the
meantime, does anyone have any ideas where I can grab disks with the
samples used in the demo I posted earlier?
Thanks for your help!
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Colin Shapiro <musos(a)icon.co.za> wrote:
Back again...
I noticed from a further post that you're running Yosemite.
It's highly unlikely that you'll find a drive that has up to date drivers
for any newer Mac OS than 10.6
I have an old Imation Superdrive which used to work under OS 10.6 but
there are no longer drivers for it, and the Mac doesn't even see the drive
anymore. I've kept a "legacy" G4 that runs OS 10.2 and even OS9, simply
to
be able to read and write (and convert) floppies and run old programs that
could read Roland format disks.
Do you perhaps have an old computer lying around gathering dust? That may
be the answer....or a friend that still has an old Mac.
Regards - Colin
On 28Sep, 2015, at 12:11, Colin Shapiro <musos(a)mac.com> wrote:
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Hi Duncan,
I'm replying to your original post, mainly to ask some questions.
First and most important, what OS are you running on the Mac?
Next, what disk drive did you get?
What type of connection does it have to your Mac?
The DD 720K disks you have are perfect for the S550, but they must be
formatted in
MS-DOS format to work on the S550.
The problem is that the Mac most likely will not even see the drive, let
alone the
disks.
I'll wait for your answers before continuing...
Regards
Colin
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On 28Sep, 2015, at 0:35, Duncan Malashock <duncanmalashock(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Sgroup,
>
> How's it going? First time posting to the group, so thanks for having
me.
>
> I recently purchased an S-550 and love the sound. I'm mostly interested
in
> using those great samples that I'm sure
you've all heard in the Sunday
Paper
>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_YmUmAMwU> demo. I'm hoping that the
> seasoned experts among you may be able to help me make that a reality.
>
> My unit came with two system disks, and it seemed like only one of them
> loaded completely. Through doing program changes I was able to get a
couple
> samples working (one of a string section and
one of an orchestra hit).
I'm
> finding it very difficult to see what samples
are available through the
> front panel. I had hoped the Sunday Paper samples were pre-installed,
but
> it seemed trying to load the samples I was
after was going to take more
> work.
>
> So my next step was to try to write disk images to floppies to use in
the
> S-500. I tracked down 10 DD 720K disks (old
stock, not the new ones
which
> I've heard are unreliable), and the RSB
sample library in .OUT format
> <http://llamamusic.com/s50s550/unusual_samples.html>. I'm on a Macbook
Pro
> running OS X Yosemite, so SMAC doesn't
seem like a possibility, and the
> Sabrent USB floppy drive I bought doesn't seem to read the DD disks. So
> right now I'm stuck.
>
> Thanks for reading this far. Can anyone help me find a way to write
these
> disk images to the floppies using my Mac?
Many thanks for any help.
>
> All best,
> Duncan
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