floppy discs and Cd's

[Mart584]

Hi, i have seen this guy selling patches for a Trinity, http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/korg-trinit ... googlebase. The Trinity uses a floppy disc drive, who uses those these days!, so how do you get around this?

[synthjoe]

Hi Mart584, welcome to the forum!

Well, for Trinity you'd better gear yourself up with floppies and a drive connected to your computer, because it is pretty much the best (and in some cases the only) way to move data between the two.

However, if you have the SCSI or HDR option with a CD-ROM reader, you can go by the method I described in another thread (http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... highlight=) and use CD's, but it would be a very inefficient transfer method, unless you want to transfer multi-megabyte data quantities - in which case I'd definitively recommend the CD way. Such may be the case when storing multiple sound libraries (samples) and/or thousands of preset (PCG) files. I don't see from the page you've sent whether the CD is already made in Trinity format (in which case it will be unreadable on a computer) or normal ISO CD format. You might want to check that with the seller before you buy.

I don't see many other ways around it - as PCG files cannot be sent over MIDI. If you get sysex files on the CD readable by a computer, however, you can do the MIDI way, as well. Good luck and let me know if I can be of any help regarding the CD creation method.

[Timo]

By the looks of it, it looks like it may be a standard PC-readable CD with PCG files on it as he says it is a collection of patches.

The fact he states "I am not charging for the patches just the cost of producing the CD" shows he doesn't own copyright of the contents. They're most likely either free patches already available over the net, maybe even leeched here from the IrishActs/KorgForums download section, or commercial patches that he has copied [illegally] from elsewhere.

Since when did a recordable CD-R cost £2 and an additional £1 to send it?

[Mart584]

Thanks for the reply guys, i have only had my Trinity a few days and it occurred to me that if i wanted to download anything off the net i wondered how i was going to get around the floppy disk thing.