Removing Zip and upgrading to Card Reader

Hello,

I'm currently in the process of upgrading my old 2KXL. I have my Zipdisks full of some good ol' samples but they are the .SND mpc file samples and I don't think they can be read in a zipperdrive on my PC. I've been looking at some stuff and I'm really stumped at trying to figure out how to get my sounds from my Zip to a card reader format.

Without having to start all over again from square one, what do some of you good folks recommend? Or what are you doing to transfer your old samples to the new format?


Thanks!

If you can't go the PC route to transfer samples, you can pick up an external SCSI Zip drive off eBay for less than $20 transfer the files on your MPC. It's not as elegant as transferring files on a PC but it will get the job done.

Thanks for the advice,

I'm trying to get all my samples on a card so I can get them on my computer. Since I have the Maschine and the MPC I want the both to be able to work together off the same stuff depending on what I want to do. You'd be surprised how similar they both are, and how very different they both are.

So you're saying I can format a Zip for PC use and save it on an external Zip drive and just transfer or save my new kits on the PC formatted Zip and then load that up into my PC?

Would that also work the same if I brought a SCSI external card reader? Like can I save my sounds to it and transfer the data to my PC?

Funny thing is when I had my computer built I had them put an A: drive on it just for my MPC so I could swap disks, then they came out with the Zips and I was like Aww man!