Friday, April 06, 2012
Roland W-30 and HxC SD Floppy Drive Emulator
YouTube Uploaded by JimAtwood on May 24, 2011
Note this works with other synths. See:
Korg DSS-1 Gets A Floppy Upgrade
Emu Emulator II digital / analog sampling synthesizer & SD Upgrade Kit
"This video basically shows you how I attached the HxC SD Floppy Drive Emulator to my Roland W-30 Sampler out the back. I did this for testing purposes and because to completely remove the floppy drive in the W-30 requires some time and work and all I wanted to do initially was to see if the HxC would actually work with the W-30.
Thus you will see that the floppy ribbon cable and power connector of the Roland W-30 can be slipped through the back of the W-30 between the top and bottom halves of the body. I put the W-30 OS version 1.07 on the SD Card and you will see that it boots the Roland W-30 no problem at all. You can then load other floppy images that you have saved to an SD card.
Note that I have also tested the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator with the Roland S-330 and it works great with that too.
I used SMFW30 to create my System and Floppy Images. Reading the manual will help you with how what settings to use and how to get the images onto the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator. The Roland S-330 and W-30 do require different setups.
If you have any questions you can visit my blog here for more info:
Jim Atwood in Japan
https://jimatwood.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/sd-card-hxc-floppy-emulator-for-roland-w-30-s-330-samplers/"
via Richard Issitt on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
Not seeing any on eBay at the moment, but here's a search link for the archives.
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