K2600 question again

[Ael]

Hey, I have a laptop without a floppy drive and tons of sounds I would love to be able to load up onto my Kurzweil.

Is there a way that I could hook my laptop directly to the Kurzweil and then run the sounds off my hard drive into the Kurzweil ? I knwo the Triton's have a USB port making things that much easier, but what ways could I hook up my laptop to my Kurzweil...and is there any other way I can get those sounsd on there cause I'm floppyless.

[Over The Edge]

The 2600 has a SCSI port to interface with
other SCSI storage media.



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[John]

Get a SCSI zip for your Kurz and then get another Zip (USB or Parallel) for you notebook. You can find them on ebay for about $15 each.

[Georges]

In case everything else fails or is too expensive for you, go for an external USB floppy disk drive.

[pHaTaL_eRrOr]

Let me know what brand and model of laptop... I've got quite a stock pile of stuff in my server room.

[Ael]

Dell Inspiron 600m

[John]

Or you could go for something like 2gig Jazz drives. I think I got mine for about $30-$40 off ebay.

[Ael]

Yea but I don't have that money...is there a way to hook my laptop to my Kurz in a way I can send it the files?

[Over The Edge]

No, the storage architecture doesn't work that way.
Sorry.



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[Ael]

Thank you for answering my question :) lol Alrighty...I guess I'll look for my laptop floppy drive and try that.

[John]

I would highly recomend not using floppy disks. They only hold 1.4 meg and if you're talking about samples, 1.4 meg doesn't go very far at all. Floppys are slow. In my opinion they're not nearly as reliable as things like zip disk.

Relative to the cost of a K2600 a zip drive doesn't cost that much. Find a way to get about $50 USD to buy two 100 meg zip drives (SCSI for Kurz, USB or Parallel for your notebook).

[Ael]

I'm just using it to download patches, that's it.

[Georges]

In my opinion they're not nearly as reliable as things like zip disk.

ZIP disks may be more reliable but ZIP drives are among the most unreliable transportable storage medium devices around.

[John]

I was comparing the Zip to floppy disk based on my experience. I have owned a zip drive for many years (5+) and the same 10 Zip disk that I started with (and others). I have not yet had one read error; I only wish I could say the same for important files that were on floppys. I'm not sure I could even count the number of errors I've had with floppy disks over the last five years.

How do you feel about the Jazz drives? I have one for my keyboard, but not my computer. I'm all for reliability. Maybe I should get a Jazz for the computer and use that instead with the Zip as a backup.

[Ael]

Jazz drives are a lot more dependable than zip drives.

[Georges]

My (external) ZIP drive was killed after only one year, mechanical problem and I did nothing wrong to it. Ok, internal ZIP drives are actually more reliable ...

Anyways, I use USB sticks these days to store my data. As far as my synth is concerned I use floppy disk or MIDI interface (quite slow) to transfer data. Backups are on CD.

The worst are the DVD-R(W) disks, they are so easy to damage unless you take really great care of them, so not really reliable yet.

[Ael]

How do you transfer data from your computer to the keyboard via midi ?

[Over The Edge]

There are various soundcards out there which are affordable and
also flexible supporting both audio 1/4 inch with XLR and midi.

Check out www.m-audio.com



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[ImaX]

ZIp-drives are good if you want to use it also to store files.

But if you just want to exchange data directly between labtop and Kurzweil you should get an SCSI-USB-interface:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=USB2Xchange&cat=%2fTechnology%2fUSB%2fUSB-to-SCSI+Adapters

I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like a good solution.

[Arkaitz]

Hi,

I have recently purchased the USB2XCHANGE USB-SCSI adapter from Adaptec.

I haven't been able to make it work. I have tried with severals computers but nothing yet. I am using Widows XP in my laptop. The next step will be to try with another OS but I don't not sure if it'll work.

I'll inform you about my progress,

Arkaitz.

[Kurzweilfreak]

The best solution is to get an Orb drive by Castlewood (www.castlewood.com). The disks are 2.2 gigs/each, and the drives are pretty damn reliable. They even make a SCSI/USB version that comes with a little removable SCSI>USB adapter so when you want to use it on the Kurz, just use the SCSI cable, and when you want to plug it into the PC, just pop on the USB adapter. Works like a charm. :D

[Over The Edge]

Yeah, the Orbs are really good. A lot quicker than
my old Iomega Jaz 1gig drives.



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[hyeok]

Just one quick question. Even if I had a SCSI hard drive or CD drive hooked up to my Kurzweil, those CDs like the ones at K-sounds do me no good if I don't have the sampling option, right?

[Kurzweilfreak]

Just one quick question. Even if I had a SCSI hard drive or CD drive hooked up to my Kurzweil, those CDs like the ones at K-sounds do me no good if I don't have the sampling option, right?

Incorrect. All you need is sample RAM.

[hyeok]

Just one quick question. Even if I had a SCSI hard drive or CD drive hooked up to my Kurzweil, those CDs like the ones at K-sounds do me no good if I don't have the sampling option, right?

Incorrect. All you need is sample RAM.

EDIT: Ah! Thanks.

[John]

My Jaz drive is 2gig and it seems quick enough. I haven't had any problems with my Zip drive (5 years +) and I hear Jaz drives are even more reliable than the zips and you can get both of them used off ebay for $15-$30 USD each. I'd get two; that way you don't have to mess around with constantly switching them.