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priyam · Joined: 07 Feb 2012 Posts: 1

Anybody has experience with emulator (USB flashdisk drive) replacing floppydisk drive for Korg Pa50?

neverkorgagain · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject:

Yes but it is nothing special, it works like floppy, its slow and can only recognize files smaller than 1,44 mb and whole thing works like u have many floppyes.

It can be found for a 30usd or 25 euro, but maybe its cheeper to buy usb floppy drive reader? So u can read floppy disk on your ps even i u dont have floppy drive.
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ktn · Junior Member Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 71

I thought the USB flash floppy emulator has 3 advantages:
1) no mechanical device, all electronics so much safer
2) each USB can "contain" the equivalent of 100 floppies. I know only one "floppy" can be selected at a time, but swapping "floppy" is done via push buttons instead of actually removing one and inserting another.
You don't have to carry 100 floppies around.
I plan to buy one to replace my current floppy drive.
3) saving the content of these 100 virtual "floppies" on your PC is a piece of cake. [ Try to do the same with 100 real floppies ]. Needless to say, duplicating USB flash is also so easy, always carry two of them to real performance just in case one got damaged somehow.

I imagine It would be very useful to use these 100 virtual "floppies" to contains the rythms/setup for performance songs for an event.
For example:
floppy#1 and #2: contains rythms for my next event#1
floppy#3 : my next event #2

All the setups/OTS are set for each song performance, one only need to load it and does not have to re-adjust tempo, OTS, etc...