[sdiy] USB,SCSI,MIDI

[jays at aracnet.com]

Another issue I'd be curious about is formatting. A lot of the samplers have their own disc format which is different than what a PC or MAC uses.

So a good question would be if the card readers can format media correctly for the sampler and use that format.

I have loaded samples into the sampler, re-did the keymapping and programming and saved them on my ZIP discs. So as long as you can write to the device you should be able to save your programs with data on the media. It'd be a manual process but should work.

Jay S.

> bill bigrig wrote:
> >  Mainly, I want to know if i can take a SCSI device
> > Akai 5000, or Roland VS-2480-cd, and use USB storage.
> > Or is it better to try finding SCSI hard drives used?
> > Can they be bought new? Not to mention the cable
> > issue(large/small) I have a CD-ROM for the Akai 5000
> > to run my Mellotron sounds. That's all I've done. but
> > if I collect samples  and load them in, go to all the
> > trouble of keyboard mapping sound effects etc. Can it
> > be converted over to USB or should I just fish for
> > SCSI drives and cables.
> >   
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