Casio Collectors

Hi Tom - good to hear from you. Yes I saw that site when I did a search before I bid on the FD1 - good info. Another site I read explained how to put the MIDI files onto the floppy disk (since the FD1 is only a playback unit, not a record unit) - you use DOS - looks like I'll have to drag out my old Win95 machine, heheh! I guess that makes sense, since DOS was the only thing around when this thing was made (1987-ish). I also have an alterior motive for buying this unit - as a backup floppy drive for my FZ-1. If mine ever dies, I can pull the drive unit out of the FD1 and put it in the FZ.

Cheers, Graham



--- In casiocollectors@yahoogroups.com.au, Tom Green <xman143@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Graham!
> 
> Nice one!  You've probably already seen this but,...  (From <
> http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/timsaddler/smf.html>)
> 
> * *
> 
> *"I have just acquired a Casio FD-1 for about £80. This is a very simple
> unit along the lines of the Yamaha MDF2.**
> The Casio FD-1 only plays back Format 0 Smf's, but has the great advantage
> of using High Density Floppy Disks.
> There is only a Stop and Start button as well as Tempo and Song Select
> Buttons.For ease of use, I pre-arrange the song playback order and use the
> stop button when required."*
> 
> -Tom
> **
> * *
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Graham <gmeredith1@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Just scored one of these for $21...nifty little floppy drive MIDI data
> > player. Good as an emergency backup sequencer - portable, runs off DC
> > voltage. It would be nice if it also could save and send sysex data dumps
> > from instruments(I doubt it - I need to find a manual for it to find out).
> > Anyone use one of these??
> >
> > Cheers, Graham
> >
> >  
> >
>