----- Original Message -----From: jacques chabotSent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:59 PMSubject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk readerThanks Christian for that very useful answer and great links.
Using DD discs is not a problem since i have lots of these still.
I would be curious to know if anybody have tried this floppy emulator on their VFX.
Jacques
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> From: cb@...
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:26:07 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader
>
> The floppy drive is a DD (double-density) drive, not an HD one. For
> the best possible results, use DD diskettes. If you have none other
> available then you _can_ use HD diskettes, but they're really intended
> for use with HD drives, so may deteriorate and lose their data more
> quickly.
>
> Replacement floppy drives for the VFX can be bought from Route 66
> Studios, http://route66studios.com/ .
>
> An alternative that might be a longer-term solution is to replace the
> actual floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator, which offers read-
> write capability of floppy drive images off an SD card: see http://www.torlus.com/floppy/
> .
>
> Best wishes,
>
> // Christian Brunschen
>
>
> On 16 Aug 2010, at 03:39, chabot652002 wrote:
>
> > Hello Everybody,
> >
> > I have owned a VFX-SD from 1990 to 1995.
> >
> > I originally joined this group to ask questions for a friend of mine.
> >
> > But to talk and read about the VFX + the fact that i also own a
> > Fizmo (and love the trans waves) gave me the idea to get another
> > VFXSD.
> >
> > So now that the VFX is back into my studio, i have a very boring
> > question to ask: is the floppy disk reader standard?
> >
> > Mine is working fine but i guess one day it will break.
> >
> > Among the members of this forum, i guess there must be people who
> > had to replace their disk reader. So can we use any kind of reader
> > or we must find a special one for the VFX?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Is it possible to use HD disquettes? I also forgot this detail 15
> > years later...
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader
2010-08-16 by jammie
the floppy emulator works on ede disk format it can
write to sdcard 2gb thats a lot of floppy disks
it is known to work with eps/eps16+ i have seen 2
machines work with these samplers asr10/ts10/12 i have seen 1 working with a
ts10
vfx and vfx sd and asrx these i have not seen but
they work from ede disks so i would expect them to work also
the sd floppy emulator are selling for £60 which is
comparible to a floppy drive but you could store thousands of floppy images i
doubt that there are even a 1000 floppy disks for it
they even work with a mirage