Casio Collectors

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

-intersting -& crafty *thumbs up*

--- In casiocollectors@yahoogroups.com.au, "Graham"  wrote:

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> 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. 
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> 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
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