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Dick Rector:

--- Quote from: maxcocoa on October 15, 2018, 07:36:16 PM ---I am not sure, is it the emulator itself which has to be formatted or the usb stick with the styles on it, if the usb stick is formatted I will lose all the styles on it. I am sorry  Iam not very good with computer speak.

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I have been using a floppy emulator for over ten years in a PSR 2000 almost every day. I also have send info about it to hundreds of people.
A pendrive (USB stick) needs to be formatted with the software that comes with the emulator BEFORE you can use it. That software formats the USB stick in 100 virtual floppies. You can NOT use a normal formatted USB.

overover:

--- Quote from: maxcocoa on October 11, 2018, 09:44:54 PM ---I have a psr 9000 to which I have fitted a usb emulator to try and bring up to date this fabulous keyboard, as far as I am aware it should just swop over no problem. I have a stick with tyros styles on it, but when place in the usb slot "no disk error" appears. I am not an expert, has anyone any ideas as to what is the problem. maxcocoa

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Hi maxcocoa,

what is the exact TYPE of that Floppy Emulator device?

Some of these emulators use a standard formatted USB stick (one Partition in FAT32 format) and one FOLDER on the stick for each virtual Floppy disk. BUT other emulators will only work, if the USB stick has as special format (one PARTITION for each virtual Floppy disk).


Best regards,
Chris

Dick Rector:
There are many different emulators even for different Yamaha keyboards. Look up on Ebay Korg-Yamaha emulators and you have to pick the one that suits your keyboard. The price is about 30 US$.

Joe H:
When you format the USB drive it will create 100 virtual floppies with a FAT12 format.  The virtual floppies are the equivalent to 1.44MB each.  So this means you will have 100 floppy disks installed at once.  You just select the floppy you want from the front panel of the emulator.

When you plug the USB into the computer you must use the software to access which floppy you want to view for the content.  I used an emulator with my Atari TT030 until I sold it.  I still have one installed in my vintage Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer/sequencer. I use the GOTEK with the 2-digit display.

I owe a big thanks to Dick for his help... he's da man when it comes to floppy emulators!

Joe H

maxcocoa:
Thank you all for the info which is all great, the emulator is a Gotec and came with no instructions or installation disc. I fitted the emulator and is working but not communicating with keyboard. I will now format the usb stick after downloading the styles which are on it to the computer and see how that turns out.

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