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Using MIDI to bypass Wagon Grand floppy.

2014-11-22 by ryanlutterbach@...

Hello folks, I believe you are literally the only people on earth who may be able to help here!


I have an original Wagon Grand and the disk drive went out. After experimenting with finding a vintage drive replacement (unable to find) and a trying an HXC floppy emulator (far too complex for my ability), I've decided to attempt to bypass the drive by using MIDI.


I have a Macbook running 10.8 with a mio iConnectivity USB-MIDI. As I've found in this forum and elsewhere, I'm using Rondo as a jukebox.


Via MIDI Monitor, I see that Rondo is apparently successful in sending MIDI messages to the mio, but there is no response from the piano.


I have no idea what the MIDI settings on the Control Wagon (or any other setting on the Control Wagon) must be in order to successfully pass the signal. I've tried about every setting in the original Wagon manual, but nothing seems to work.


Can anyone help here?


Thanks!


Ryan

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