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Gremlins in the floppy-disk drive of an old Roland XP50!!!
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| Ayum |
I ask u... What's the point sequencing if u can't save ur song...?
I'm frustrated beyond recognition!!! :crazy: :eyespop: :eyespop: :nervous: :eyespop: :eyespop: :crazy:
The Roland Xp50 has a floppy-disk drive...
...but every new disk I try is dodgy.
It will work ok for a while... but guaranteed after a few days the disk will not load or save any songs. It wilkl just read "unformatted disk" every time I try use it...
This means I've lost several songs, wasted hours of sequencing time... It's the most annoying thing ever.
I'm wondering does anyone here know of a reliable floppy disk to use with an XP50? And indeed has anyone else had problems with an XP50...?
What would be *really* helpful would be any tips on other ways of saving/storing my tracks (without using floppy disks), where they could be loaded back into the Roland and edited...?
-Ayum* |
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| DeZmA |
Seems like your floppy is ed.
i'm sure they can be stored on internal memory. Also read your manual and search for a bulkdump, then you can do a dump from your internal memory into your sequencer (cubase, cakewalk, ...) make sure your sysex filter isn't filtering sysex data. |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
| might try buying an floppy disc drive cleaner and seeing if you can clean the heads of the disc drive, or might try seeing if you can find a replacement to replace it with |
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| Ayum |
Thanx 4 the tips...
...Will try cubase (I haven't got Cubase now, but will have in a few weeks time!)
Hope it will bypass that cursed disk drive! |
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| biznology |
my computer floppy does the same thing.
get an air canister and blow the dust out - it should work alright then| |
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