Personally, I dont like having to constantly remove the USB stick multiple times.We have a range of Gotek floppy disk emulator drives for sale, Gotek mounting brackets and OLED/LCD displays. This also eliminates the need for an SD card readerwriter.Ĭhances are good that you already have an unused USB stick gathering dust somewhere No soldering and no firmware flashing is required. The.OUT disk image files you already have simply need to be copied onto a USB stick and renamed with an.IMG extender. There is no need to convert any disk image files over to the.HFE SD card format either. If you do, its used, has spiders in it and is already 25 years old The USB stick filesystem for creating and storing the image disks can be created using Mac or Windows No complicated third party software to screw around with. Replacement floppy drives are difficult to find and cost about 50 (USD). The floppy drives on the S50 S330 S550 W30 are notorious for breaking down or requiring maintenance. Having all your disk image files on compact storage media is very convenient and easy to backup No mechanical parts. This extra toggle switch makes life easier because it eliminates the need to constantly plugunplug the USB stick when loadingsaving image disk files.
Other models with similar part numbers look good at first but upon closer inspection, their user manual states that their Jumpers are disabled Yikes The PCB silkscreen for the model shown above reads GOTEK system and SFRC922 ( Detail ) If you are handy with a soldering iron, I highly recommend the Mini-Toggle Switch Mod which is an simple 47 DIY. Dont go near it because that one only works for nonimage mode disks and it only has a 2character LED display. Theres even one listed on eBay as SFRM72FU 720KB USBFDE but its missing DL at the end of the part number. This model will NOT work with the S750, S760 or S770 because those samplers use a higher density 1.44MB DSHD 3.5 floppy disk drive Model: SFRM72-FU-DL (USB Floppy Drive Emulator for Roland 720K) For Use With These Samplers: S50 S550 S330 W30 Cost: 28 eBay (USD) The GOTEK needs to have Disk Image Mode, 720KB DSDD and a 3character LED display.Įven then, it may not work unless its the model number listed above. I have received eMails from S50, S550, S330, W30, MC300 and MC500 owners who have had great success installing this USBFDE model on their samplers and sequencers.
To use the Roland floppy disk format, you must use a USB Floppy Drive Emulator (USBFDE) which supports Disk Image Mode and is set to work with 720KB DSDD disk image files.
I have also installed this same device on my W30 and S50 samplers and it is working great. The internal floppy disk drive had failed so I was looking for a lowcost replacement solution. I decided to take the plunge and see if I could figure out how to add a virtual filesystem to replace the old 3.5 floppy diskette technology on my S50, S550 and W30.
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