is there a way to back up the floppies to pc?

goldenmean · is there a way to back up the floppies to pc?

hi just wondering if there is a good way to back the mpc floppies onto a pc as an iso file or whatever. i end up making double copies because sometimes my 60 gets buggy and randomly cant see the floppy files. if i could back them up on the computer and reload them it would help because it takes forever making two copies of beats. i dont have the money to do the scsi upgrade these days.

peterpiper0815

Yes there is a way. You can use Omniflop to create an image file of the disk. But you need to istall a special driver for your floppy-drive. But there is a manual how to do it on the omniflop site

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

but when you use it for the first time try it with a dummy disk to see if it work with the MPC60 Preset cause the s950 Preset didnt work for me (but the Akai HD 1600kb Preset worked)

peace

RHYTHM MONSTER

goldenmean, when was using the 60 I bought an old thinkpad with w98 on it (which reads 60 disks) for like $20. Everytime I got done with a beat I would just drag and drop my files over to the thinkpad from the disk and what's cool is awave will read and convert all those snd files to wavs.

goldenmean

nice now were talking. that would be sweet if i could use awave to open and edit the audio files and put them back into the 60.

RHYTHM MONSTER

That would be kind of cool, I never tried editing the actual snd. I do remember having issues with turning wavs into 60 snds and trying to load but it was so long ago I don't have any specifics. One thing that's kind of funny is that if you use memory compression on a sound file and turn it into a wav it comes out pitched +12 semis. It must be part of cutting down the bandwidth to save memory.