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Re: Floppy Emulator

2014-01-22 by musicwithharry

So basically, each SD card, even though it might have an 8gb capacity (or whatever capacity for that matter), can only hold the equivalent of one floppy disk?

So the only benefit to having the emulator is so that you are saving your data to a more modern media type rather than floppy disk?

Am I misunderstanding?

I know that you cannot load more than what the onboard memory is anyway. My VFX-SD has the upgrade so it's sequencer is fully expanded.

Can we store multiple disk images on a single SD card?  If I have an 8gb card for example in the VFX-SD through the emulator, I should be able to theoretically store hundreds of floppy disks worth of data (sound, sequence, sysex).  Is that correct?

I apologize for my confusion, and to think that I am a computer guy too :)

Grace, 
Harry


--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, <yveco44@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Harry, 
>  Pictures of each disk can store the same amount of files (sound banks, presets and sequences), a floppy disk 720 KB. 
>  It is not possible to combine in a single image file, the equivalent of 20 floppy disks. 
>  Note that a disk 720 KB = 1,961 KB image.
>  Sorry. 
>  Best regards.
>

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