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jahrome

I attempted to load data from an external USB HD formatted by my Roland Fantom G using Kronos. The Roland formatted drive froze Kronos. The only solution was to turn off Kronos and reboot. I repeated this several times and got the same results. Only 1 time was I able to see the contents on the Roland drive and load .wav files.
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Tool box: Kronos 61, Fantom FA06, ASR-10, MPCX, MPC Live, and MPC 4000.

Lou · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 3:25 am Post subject:

What did you expect?
Why not just format the drive from Kronos and move the files over to it and load as you wish..
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Lou

jahrome · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:39 am Post subject:

I expected to receive a message indicating the drive needs to be re-formatted in order work with Kronos. I didn't expect Kronos would still be frozen after I turned off the USB drive and unplugged the USB cable.

3 of the 4 times I tried the drive, it froze Kronos and there was no way to reformat that drive.
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Tool box: Kronos 61, Fantom FA06, ASR-10, MPCX, MPC Live, and MPC 4000.

Lou · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 5:49 am Post subject:

I see, is it ok now? .. hope your not still frozen.
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jahrome · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 6:15 am Post subject:

I just turned off the HD, unplugged it from USB port and rebooted Kronos. Everything is back to normal.
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Tool box: Kronos 61, Fantom FA06, ASR-10, MPCX, MPC Live, and MPC 4000.

NuSkoolTone · Approved Merchant Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 1069

Perhaps Roland is doing something proprietary?

I would be more curious so see how Kronos played with a drive formatted by Windows, Mac or Linux/Unix. THAT I would expect to work. From another MI comp? Not so much.

Depending on what your needs are, it appears dumping your files to a temp store and then re-formatting the drive so that it's compatible with the Kronos is the only option to move forward.
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cello · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject:

If it's anything like what the OASYS needs (and it may not be so maybe check the manual) but a USB drive must be FAT32 formatted - I had to download a shareware app to do it properly.

If you don't format it correctly, it will only recognise the first 4Gb of the hard disk capacity and ignore the rest - even if it's a 500Gb drive! Once formatted though, all capacity is recognised.

Enjoy your Kronos!
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Lou · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:27 pm Post subject:

cello · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject:

Tried that first time but stayed at only 4Gb being recognised on a 250Gb disk
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Sina172 · Platinum Member Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 1194

cello · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tips Sina Smile

The shareware app did it in about 60 seconds - maybe a little over - and was good to go. The app is called GUIapp and is in fact freeware, not shareware as I said earlier.

Doesn't surprise me though that the O can do such stuff - it really is such an immensely well-thought out keyboard/OS and I'm sure that the Kronos builds on that kind of thinking.
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Plugged in: Fantom 8, Jupiter-X, Jupiter 80, System-8, JD-XA, V-Synth GTv2, FA-06, SE-02, JU-06A, TR-09, VT-4, Go:Livecast, Rubix44, Shure SM7b, Push2, Ableton 11 Suite, Sibelius, KRK Rokit 5,