Timeline for Yamaha SY99 floppy disk drive broken. Can I use something else?
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 9:23 | comment | added | micheal65536 | @Vance There's only one "correct" way to convert the information and the more expensive cables do it correctly but there's a chinese company that makes a converter chip that's used in a lot of cheaper cables that does it in an incorrect way that works fine for note/music data (keys pressed or released, which is what MIDI is typically used for) but not SysEx data (which is what you need to be able to save and load synth data over MIDI). | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 9:23 | comment | added | micheal65536 | @Vance Not exactly. It's not like a cheap USB cable. Without getting too technical, USB ports cannot understand MIDI information and MIDI ports cannot understand USB, so a "MIDI to USB" cable has to contain a microchip inside (usually hidden in one of the connectors or in a "box" in the middle of the cable) that "converts" the information from one format to the other. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 15:14 | history | edited | Albrecht Hügli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 7:57 | vote | accept | Vance | ||
| Jun 22, 2020 at 7:14 | comment | added | Tetsujin | The cheap ones can barely transmit notes, let alone SysEx data. Get one from a known Instrument manufacturer, Roland, Yamaha, Emu, Korg etc. They are guaranteed to be good. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 21:19 | comment | added | Vance | @MichealJohnson I'll keep that in mind. So cheaper cables compromise data transfer, but higher quality ones do not? | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | micheal65536 | Be careful with those cables. Some of the cheaper ones (especially a very popular one that comes up if you search for a USB MIDI cable on Amazon and is sold under a few different brands) mangle SysEx data (which doesn't matter in most cases but is very important here). Personally if you don't need the extra functionality that MIDI offers I'd go with the option of replacing the floppy disk drive. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | Vance | @AlbrechtHügli do you have one or two examples of any such free MIDI software I could use? | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:28 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Maybe so. tbh, it's been over 20 years since I last messed with MIDI data in earnest. I used to work with the head of the entire Yamaha software division.. the guy who wrote [or oversaw] all the in-house editors etc. His chops were significantly better than mine ;) | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:24 | comment | added | Albrecht Hügli | Maybe this tool could help: yamahamusicians.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6823 | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | Tetsujin | OK, the 99 can do a specific sample dump, just not as part of the voice sysex. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:08 | comment | added | Albrecht Hügli | Are you sure? bobbyblues.recup.ch/sysex_procedure.html ....or yamahamusicians.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3349 | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:06 | history | edited | Albrecht Hügli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | The SY99 is a RAMpler. SysEx will not transmit the sample data. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 9:05 | history | edited | Albrecht Hügli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2020 at 8:57 | history | answered | Albrecht Hügli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |