4 May
2008
4 May
'08
9:11 p.m.
At 12:31 PM 5/4/2008, you wrote:
Yeah. I've never really used SMac but if you can get it to work then
great. Otherwise I just always tell people "find a PC and make your
images" using SDisk.
The new
Translator Mac beta supports S-50/550 floppy images and it
can convert them to EXS24 format (or Structure, or Independence, or
Kontakt, or others). And this week (at least I think; we are in
striking distance) the beta will support -Roland S-7x, just like the
Windows version does.
I put you on the list; you'll be getting an email Monday with details.
Thanks Garth!!
That's really good news.
I see that you mention floppy images. So will I have to make disk
images of my disks first? I still have an old Iomega superdrive which could read
S550 floppies
directly to Mac - if Translator supports that......
The best thing to do is to make images, because 1) it's good to have
backups anyway and 2) it avoids any issues of Translator seeing the
disk. Best to just get the information off the disk. Disk Utility is
a good program for this. However, the ability for it to read
proprietary floppies is suspect.
Personally, I would always use a PC with a floppy controller (not
USB) to read proprietary disks. That always works; other ways are suspect.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User