Most audio gear which uses SmartMedia cards (Boss SP-303, SP-505, etc.) utilize the much more common and higher capacity 3.3V cards. Unfortunately, there are a few Boss/Roland devices (Boss SP-202, Roland MC-505, JX-305, JP-8080) which require the far more rare and limited capacity (2MB and 4MB) 5V SmartMedia cards: Roland … Continue reading
Ray Bellis, January 2026 Owners of the original 1998 E-mu Audity 2000 ROMpler with version 1.00 firmware have never been able to make use of E-mu’s MIDI based firmware update mechanism. E-mu did add that feature to the version 2.00 firmware, but if you have a version 1.00 your only … Continue reading
The disk geometry and encoding of the Emu SP1200 3.5″ storage format is quite strange, and it makes it challenging to read/write. Other than the native Emu SP1200 hardware, there are very few ways to duplicate or image diskettes. Using the Rossum SP1200 reissue is not a solution either, as … Continue reading
When using the Yamaha TX16W sampler, most users have migrated to the third-party “Typhoon 2000” operating system rather than the Yamaha-authored operating system. However, one complication which has arisen from this is that two mutually-incompatible disk types are now in circulation: native TX16W, and Typhoon. The Yamaha OS cannot load … Continue reading
Akai (now owned by InMusic) annoyingly removes the downloads for all but the most current version of their MPC software. But the new versions of the software tend to have progressively higher system requirements, so sometimes using a previous version is the only way to use Akai MPC Software on … Continue reading
