Re: [sgroup] New S-550 user with Mac floppy disk questions

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 _______________________________________________ Sent by the sgroup mailing list sgroup(a)sgroup.ca For subscribe/unsubscribe: http://lists.sgroup.ca/mailman/listinfo/sgroup See http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/ for more information.