Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi Gordon,

On 20 Aug 2013, at 10:22, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:26:17AM +0100, Jason Adkins wrote:
>> The Atari DIN leads should be fine on PC too, the UA-4FX has normal
>> midi connectors as well as usb.
>
> One thing to watch with cheapy USB leads is they can do some funny  
> "interpreting" of the MIDI messages.  I have one that *seems* to  
> pass sysex just fine but reformats running status so that it has  
> status bytes, and won't pass "unformatted" data which is a pain in  
> the arse when using it with devices that can present a serial  
> terminal over MIDI ;-)

The UA-4FX wasn't that cheap new,so yes use decent USB cables (I  
didn't know this,I must have been lucky with the lead I'm using)  
Normal 5pin Din to Din do work though for proper midi ;)

>
>> As I have said a million times before,tape the hole up on 1.44mb
>> floppies then the ST will accept them although 720kb discs are not  
>> that
>> difficult to get.
>
> ... for about a week.  Just get proper DD floppies.  HD floppies are  
> bad enough when you use them in HD drives, without trying to get  
> them to work in DD drives.  The disks are completely different, and  
> really should have had more of a difference than just one hole.

That's not true,about 2 week's I think...;) ,although I have one taped  
up 1.44mb think it's a 3M which is an old boot disc,still works after  
5 years...(I taped it up properly)
But yes I agree horses for courses,and yes floppy disks are a  
nightmare,but useful,I mean if you were going to transfer an image or  
decompressed image from a PC to your ST they would be fine but like  
said save on a proper 720K unless fitted with a 1.44mb floppy or Hard  
disk.

>
>> I don't know much about programming computers,but I do about  
>> sequencers.
>> The ST uses an interesting midi out which splits the signals into out
>> and thru on the one lead but I have never had a problem in 10 years
>> ever with a standard lead.
>
> I'd forgotten about that!  20 years ago or so I made up a MIDI out/ 
> through lead for my ST, and have used the MIDI through connection  
> once, to test it.
>

That was what we were told! Cubase has a soft thru anyway.... lol

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