USB Floppy Drive on the MPC 5000?

I have tons of (self sampled) s1000 floppy disks and don't know how to get them to the mpc5000.

Would an usb floppy drive work with the mpc5000? One problem I see is the wrong end of the USB cable.

they are both usb hosts, so it wont work
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You can get a USB floppy drive connect to your daw..

Load and drag the files onto the daw.. create a folder for all of the s1000 floppys..

Then drag the files over to the 5k usb,load .. done.

I've done a similar thing with my asr10 files from floppy+ translator pro awhile back.

Hope it helps.

bobbybland wrote:You can get a USB floppy drive connect to your daw..

Load and drag the files onto the daw.. create a folder for all of the s1000 floppys..

Then drag the files over to the 5k usb,load .. done.

I've done a similar thing with my asr10 files from floppy+ translator pro awhile back.

Hope it helps.

but..... the pc wont recognize the akai format- put an s1000 disc(floppy or cd) into the computer,
and it comes up blank-
if you use translator or cdXtract to do it,it converts them, and then they get screwed up.
probably need to use translator to put yer floppies on a virtual drive, then make a cd from that?
I think that should work- Garthe will tell you, for sure
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try cdxtract
it should read them on the computer

temetrepo wrote:try cdxtract
it should read them on the computer

read my topic on loading s1000 discs- cdXtract translations dont seem to go from s1000 to .akp
without screwing with the root notes-

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woulda been so cool if akai had put scsi into the 5k

omg I remember, SCSI on the s1000 to the PC was not easy going the days back then... the own s1000 format was a hard stone.

thanks for the replies... still... hmmm

simplest way is to connect s1000 thru SCSI port to PC. - but You need SCSI interface and cables. with MESA II (available from akaipro.com) You can transfer all Your data to hard drive in PC. After this just upload them to MPC.

You can also use MIDI Data dump and transfer all samples from S1000 to MPC using regular Midi cable but, it takes a long time, and do not transfer wave tags.

regards

eprom wrote:simplest way is to connect s1000 thru SCSI port to PC. - but You need SCSI interface and cables. with MESA II (available from akaipro.com) You can transfer all Your data to hard drive in PC. After this just upload them to MPC.

You can also use MIDI Data dump and transfer all samples from S1000 to MPC using regular Midi cable but, it takes a long time, and do not transfer wave tags.

regards

Good idea, but MESA only works from the Akai 3000XL series onwards...

i am using MESA with S2000 as well as with S3000xl

greetz

Indeed, because the S2000 is part of the 3000XL family

S900 Series (900-950)
S1000 Series (1000-1100)
S3000 Series (2800-3200)
S3000 XL Series (2000-3200)
S6000 Series (5000-6000)
Z-Series (4-8)

greetings