I would like to know if I can copy midifiles with my computer to the directory song on my zip drive. Will my keyboard see the midi files or can I just copy midi files from a floppy disk in my keyboard to the zip drive.
(I have a Roland Em-2000 (almost the same as a G-1000)
Thanks from belgium.

You have to copy from floppy disk.

Jamil Mattar Valente

Alain,

I have a G-1000 which has the zip disk in it. I have not tried copying a midi file from my computer to my keyboard, but if you have a zip drive on your computer, I don't see any difference in putting the file on the zip disk or putting it on a floppy disk. If I am not mistaken, I believe the formatting of a floppy disk for a computer and the formatting of a floppy disk for the Roland is a little different. I don't know if the Roland will read a floppy disk that is formatted for your computer. I don't have my book with me, but I believe there is something in there about that. I would think that the zip disk would be the way to go, but hey, I could easily be wrong about that.

Same as Jamil,
Dear Zierra

The Zip Disk have to use the database system to recognize files such as style and midi...
So a diskette works fine for Computer and G-1000, but a zip didn't. I recommend Zierra to visit Roy de Wild page or Steen page which the links can be found just before this discussion page www.synthzone.com/roland.htm
and you can read about all those frustrating zip problem. That's mean if you copy the songs from computer into the computer zip drive, G-1000 can't see anything.

I have discover an easy way to update the database using the simplest method that is to copy all the songs full into a 1.44Mb diskette and Use COPY function under DISK and choose ALL to Copy from FDD to ID5 and the database will be updated automatically and you can see all of them. The 'choose all' function is nice here. The styles database work in the same way. The style in zip has extension .sth instead of .stl. Backup has to be done thru FDD as well. But this time you can only choose a maximum of 20 for each transfer as FDD can handle huge data. If you have an external SCSI device then, it's a different story.

What computer zip can do: To backup a zip disk (already containing data) then you can use the computer zip drive by using zip tools to copy zip to zip but the destination zip disk has to be formatted by G-1000 and when computer zip ask whether to format it, Say 'No' and then when ask to overwrite all say 'YES' then within minutes, you will have a same identical zip as original. This is good to backup the original supplied zip.

Cheers
EatSteel