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did anyone tried to format Prophet 2002 floppies with OmniFlop?

it claims it can "Read, write, and format Prophet 2002 (800kB)"

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm


greetings

somethingkillingyou wrote:
> did anyone tried to format Prophet 2002 floppies with OmniFlop?
> 
> it claims it can "Read, write, and format Prophet 2002 (800kB)"
> 
> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
> 
> 
.. or even just reading the disks. i'd would like somehow to get all my 
2000 and 440 samples on to my computer (i cant do it via midi, 
unfortunately).

so is there any software that would read the disk image that the above 
software creates?

cheers,
chris

it should read the files from floppy too...

you can use it to archive disk images to pc and then write back the 
mentioned disk images (or OTHER Prophet disk images...) to floppies!

it should be the only way to handle prophet 2000/2002 disk images 
with pc (useful for trading, archiving etc...)

--- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, CMR Studio <studio@...> wrote:
>
> somethingkillingyou wrote:
> > did anyone tried to format Prophet 2002 floppies with OmniFlop?
> > 
> > it claims it can "Read, write, and format Prophet 2002 (800kB)"
> > 
> > http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
> > 
> > 
> .. or even just reading the disks. i'd would like somehow to get 
all my 
> 2000 and 440 samples on to my computer (i cant do it via midi, 
> unfortunately).
> 
> so is there any software that would read the disk image that the 
above 

> software creates?
> 
> cheers,
> chris
>

somethingkillingyou wrote:
> it should read the files from floppy too...
> 
> you can use it to archive disk images to pc and then write back the 
> mentioned disk images (or OTHER Prophet disk images...) to floppies!
> 
> it should be the only way to handle prophet 2000/2002 disk images 
> with pc (useful for trading, archiving etc...)
> 

yeah, but due to a house move, i havent got the space for a full studio 
anymore so i've gone over to software and would like to use the sounds 
on the pc. obviously, at worst case, i could just sample them direct 
from the 2000 output, but would loose a bit of quality.. not overly 
bothered about that though. but it would be nice if i could get them 
directly over though.
cheers,
chris

I would not be worried about sound quality... 
worst thing is you'll lose real CEM filters!

btw, could you try out if it works ok?

p.s.
for sample playback you should also consider Oberheim DPX-1 yourself...
it is just a 2 unit rack module and reads Prophet 2000/2002, Emulator 
II, Ensoniq Mirage and Akai S-900 and it has those Oberheim lovely 
analog filters!


--- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, CMR Studio <studio@...> wrote:
> yeah, but due to a house move, i havent got the space for a full 
studio 
> anymore so i've gone over to software and would like to use the 
sounds 

> on the pc. obviously, at worst case, i could just sample them direct 
> from the 2000 output, but would loose a bit of quality.. not overly 
> bothered about that though. but it would be nice if i could get them 
> directly over though.
> cheers,
> chris
>

somethingkillingyou wrote:
> I would not be worried about sound quality... 
> worst thing is you'll lose real CEM filters!
> 
> btw, could you try out if it works ok?

well seems to work on some disks and not on others. but these are old 
disks and have been sitting around for ages unused so its more than 
likely them rather than the program.
I cant check if it writes ok (or indeed if it has read ok) as my 2000 is 
in storage at the moment and there's no software that i can find that 
will read the disk image.

> 
> p.s.
> for sample playback you should also consider Oberheim DPX-1 yourself...
> it is just a 2 unit rack module and reads Prophet 2000/2002, Emulator 
> II, Ensoniq Mirage and Akai S-900 and it has those Oberheim lovely 
> analog filters!
> 

yes, i'd thought about one of those before.. never got round to it. but 
as i said, it's all software here now, not even a mixing desk

chris.