The Extreme and M3 connect to a single computer as a USB storage device. This was not particularly feasible with the KRONOS hardware. However, personally I find the FTP implementation to be much nicer. For instance, I can connect to it from any computer on the same network; I can (and do) transfer files to and from my laptop via wifi. You mention "My Computer" which indicates that you're using Windows; modern versions of Windows allow you to mount ftp devices directly just like a networked drive, much as you describe from earlier Korg synths but *without* the need to flip any switches to control who's accessing the drive. Much less "clumsy" this way, imo.david130653 wrote:I realise this does not help anyone trying to connect their Kronoses (Kronii?) to FTP servers, but just in case anyone from Korg is reading, why did you not go for the very simple solution that the Triton Extreme had?
On the Extreme, there was a setting, under the Media\Utility menu that allowed you to use the USB midi connection to connect the Extreme's Memory Cards and External USB storage to the PC / Mac host the midi USB was connected to.
The Extreme storage then appeared as a drive in File Manager / My Computer / etc. You could move data to and from the Extreme. Then when you had finished, flip the virtual switch on the Extreme and the storage was re-mounted by the Triton. Simples.
The M3 did not have anything like this and I am very disappointed that the Kronos has to have this clumsy workaround. Please Korg, go back to how it was done in the Extreme.
Best regards,
Dan
