Good day. Can anyone please share the brand USB Floppy Drive they’ve used to successfully execute the disc conversion?
So I’ve been down my own rabbit hole with this topic, and what I can tell you is that you can’t simply use one of these modern USB floppy drives. Unlike other modern storage solutions, old floppy drives often had custom controllers that were designed to read the proprietary formats of their respective samplers. The new USB floppy drives you find these days only read MSDOS/IBM data which was a common standard. I tried using both one of these USB floppy drives, as well as a usb to floppy adapter to connect my S950’s floppy drive to my computer, and it simply wouldn’t work.
Brad shared a video a while back discussing this very topic: https://youtu.be/zoYPgTC4YRg?si=w-5myoz7KnaO20_m
My solution was to find an old school PC from the late 90s running Windows 2000, and with a built-in floppy. Then I installed an application called OmniFlop to install special floppy drivers and read my akai floppies. With that setup I was able to extract floppy images from my old disks and copy them to a USB thumb drive, which I then use with my Gotek floppy emulator in my S950. Maybe you can use this approach with SP1200 floppies.
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Yeah it’s been about a year since we heard any mention of the Isla USB Floppy drive that is supposed to be able to read sp1200 files for playback on the s2400. I wonder if they’re just trying to work on compatibility with other samplers too so they can increase the usefulness and sales. That would be my guess, but maybe they just ran into some other issue with it.
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Thanks a bunch! I’ll give that a try
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I agree. I’m going to give @notanumb3r’s suggestion a shot for now.
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This is the only thing that’s missing for me. I don’t care about a Caladon, or extra effects or filters. Just give me a disk drive and the ability to read Emu and Akai formats. I’d be a happy man.
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Thanks for the insight! I may give Translator a shot.