Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Same reliable Data Filer and MIDI song player is Yamaha MDF2 or 3 I've  
been using for years.

Daniel Forro

On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Graham wrote:

> 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