16 Feb
2007
16 Feb
'07
1:58 p.m.
At 11:38 AM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
I have a stack of Roland s330 floppies I want to save
on a hard drive.
I could load them into the sampler on by one, save to a zip disk
I assume you mean a S-7x sampler.
This works, but the problem is that this is too slow
for the amount
of disks I have.
Anyone have a better way? [Prefer to retain the formatting and
multi-sampling, so writing to wavs isn't ideal.]
To get floppies on your computer for backup, find a PC (not too
difficult) and get the Win98BootDisk w/SDisk on it from the Chicken
Systems web site. www.chickensys.com You'll wind up with a bunch of
..out files that represent each floppy.
This takes time, but there's no way around it taking time. Floppy
drives are slow. But once you are done, you're done!
To convert these to another format:
1) Use Translator Windows, that converts S-330 things to any other
format. www.chickensys.com
2) Use Kontakt 2, that loads S-5x .out files
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User