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question about the floppy disk reader

2010-08-16 by chabot652002

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

Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader

2010-08-16 by Christian Brunschen

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

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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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader

2010-08-16 by jacques chabot

Thanks 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

> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>;
>
>
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>
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader

2010-08-16 by Christian Brunschen

I haven't tried it with a VFX-SD, but there's a video on youtube  
showing someone using it with their EPS-16+ :

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09ZJPwi3eU

The EPS-16+ uses the same floppy drive as the VFX-SD, as far as I  
know, so it should work equally well on a VFX-SD as on am EPS-16+ .

Best wishes,

// Christian Brunschen

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On 16 Aug 2010, at 12:59, jacques chabot wrote:

> Thanks 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
>
> > To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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

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----- Original Message -----

From: jacques chabot

To: ensoniq-vfx-sd@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:59 PM

Subject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] question about the floppy disk reader

Thanks 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

> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>; > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>;
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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