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Stardate: 20250715.2004
Location: The Lab
Input Device: HOSAKA -> booji
Audio: Lab Fan
Visual: nano
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OCC 2025 DAY III
Spent this afternoon replacing the 3.5" floppy drive on the Korg
Triton Pro X with a USB Floppy emulator. I have been meaning to do
this since I'd rather not use or store floppies/magnetic media
anymore and the USB Floppy emulator can emulate 1000 floppies on a
USB stick. The emulator I have is the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 (Grey).
Most of the time was spent trying to clear some space in the lab to
work on the 88-key Triton. I ended up laying down some yoga mats
and working on it on the floor. The Triton is heavy and bulky and
I did not want to mess it up. I took off some of the knobs so they
did not get damaged or in the way before I turned it over.
The Triton has many, many screws that needed to be removed and a
couple panels to access the internals. I think I counted around
50. This was a chore since even though I had floor space to work,
it was still a bit cramped.
The floppy drive/emulator swap was easy, like replacing a floppy
drive on a PC, just the power cable and the flat ribbon cable. The
connectors are keyed so it would be hard to mess up. I didn't have
to mess with any jumper settings.
After putting all the screws back and putting everything back
together, I was able to test it out. I used an old 8GB USB stick
and used the USB Floppy Manager software [1] to format the USB
stick.
I got the new USB floppy emulator drive to work, after fiddling
with the buttons and trying to understand how it works with the
Triton. I was able to successfully create, save, and load a test
sequence.
Later on, I found out that there is an alternate firmware [2] for
the emulator. I'd have to remove the drive to reprogram. Not this
round. A possible project for another time.
[1] https://www.gotekemulator.com/Download.asp
[2] https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
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