Retro midi machine!

[Paul Battersby]

(01-23-2020, 06:27 AM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: The only thing I find potentially troubling is that you mention the floppy drive being something that has a tendency to break. Without it, the unit is basically a very large paperweight.

Can the synth perform a sysex dump through a MIDI port and later load it back? If so, assuming the floppy drive works now, perhaps you can load each floppy, perform a sysex dump to you computer and be independent of the floppy drive.

I've taken this precaution for both my DX7IIFD and my Korg M1 (which has no drive and resets to a sine wave generator when the battery dies every decade or so!)