Mellotronists

In a message dated 05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
finnegan@... writes:


> Subj:[Mellotronists] Help! Please Help! 
> Date:05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:finnegan@...">finnegan@...</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com">Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com</A>
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> I'd appreciate any help on how to load the Mellotron Archives samples on to 
> my Korg Triton Pro keyboard/sampler, which is armed with a floopy drive.  
> My computer sees that there 496 mb on the cd, but nothing else.  How do I 
> convert the information on the cd to floopy discs? Do I need to download 
> some sort of extracting program? I understand that the samples are Akai 
> formatted, which are supposed to be friendly to the Triton.
>  
> Please don't use big words, I'm a guitar player.
>  
> Thanks for any and all help,
> Jim FInnegan
> M400 s/n 121


Hi Jim,

     I suggest you purchase an external CDROM drive to read in your samples.  
These drives aren't expensive, and this is really the way to go if you plan 
on using samples in your Triton.  I have a Kurzweil 2600XS (a workstation / 
sampler, similar to the Triton), and am also using the Pinder Mellotron CD, 
on occasion.  I use an external CDROM drive, and it works great.  Your Triton 
probably has something called a SCSI interface like mine (someone correct me 
here if I'm wrong about the Triton), which will allow you to connect the 
CDROM drive.  You also have the floppy (not floopy ;-) ) drive, but you don't 
want to use that for samples - not enough storage, and samples come on CDs, 
so you should have a CDROM drive.

     If you want to get an external CDROM drive, contact me privately and I 
can help you with the whole SCSI setup thing, since I have been through this 
recently.  Good luck.


Ken M.
(remember me from the Portsmouth visit a few years back?)