Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

excellent thinking, gents. i had completely dismissed 
those machines. but a great way to store/restore sysex, 
and you wouldn't mind keeping floppies for that, would you?
kinda like having memory cards for all your machines, and 
much less abstract than some lost file on a hard drive, or 
a sysex part in a cubase project.
could you give a little more info on what it is like to use them?

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
>
> Same reliable Data Filer and MIDI song player is Yamaha MDF2 or 3 I've  
> been using for years.
> 
> Daniel Forro
> 
> On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Graham wrote:
> 
> > I just recently bought a RA-500 RAM card to go with my VZ-10M and  
> > PG380 guitar synth, after my old card died. When I got the card, it  
> > had a lot of good sounds on it that were useful to me, so I didn't  
> > want to lose them, but had no immediate use for them.
> >
> > I tried a few ways of dumping them to computer using various  
> > software (VZ Patch, MIDI-Ox etc) but often I would get error  
> > messages and corrupted files. As I needed to get these files off the  
> > card to load my own sounds on it, I resorted to dragging out my old  
> > Alesis Datadisk datafiler, which I'd forgotten about. What a Godsend  
> > this thing is!! Totally reliable data transfer and archiving, albeit  
> > to floppy disk, but at least the transfer was not corrupting the  
> > files.
> >
> > Just a heads-up about this, if you're having trouble saving your  
> > banks or patches to computer. These Datadisks go for pretty cheap on  
> > ebay and go well with the VZ or any synth capable of MIDI sysex data  
> > dumping.
> >
> > Cheers, graham
>