Hi,
just wondering if anyone knows if the Panasonic Card Reader that comes with the Panasonic PC SD Audio Writing Kit, is used for any of their other products like camera's etc
I 'm worried if I happen to damage it, would I be able to replace it sometime down the track.
I know they use sd cards in a number of their products.
A while back, I came across a Panasonic Card Reader on Ebay, but it wasn't the same model as the one that came with the kit, it was an older model and probably would not have worked with audio.

Just Wondering

best wishes
Rikki

the same or similar was supplied with their mp3 players. I wouldn't worry, SD has overtaken compact flash in market share in the States for the first time, it and it's support is not going away

Thanks Alec,
I wasn't so much worried about sd disapearing from the scene , but that maybe that particular model card reader was specific to the keyboards and it's audio functions.
Didn't really want to dash out and buy a second one , on the off chance , I happened to damage mine.
so thank you
best wishes
Rikki

I haven't checked as the PR604 doesn't have the SD system, but it sounds as if it's the same as the one used in my Panasonic SD voice recorder. This differs from the one used in their cameras, but a universal card reader is very cheap indeed. We have one that reads my husband's Canon compact flash as well as my Panasonic SD and anything else you want to stuff in it. Leo.

Rikki was concerned about the digital audio for which you need the correct reader, virtually any reader will work for technics and midi files.

Rikki,

I use the above mentioned SD Reader Writer for my digital camera. I download photos to the SD Card, to be used at Photo Centers. Most self serving Photo Centers in the US accept the SD Card, while only few accept the Fujii Camera card, although that type of picture card (xD) card is catching on.

The xD card is even smaller then the SD Card, although I believe that SD has captured the market, and will continue to be the lead standard.

Larry Hawk

ah, but you haven't seen miniSD yet...

half the size of SD and smaller than xD...

Is there possibilities, other than Panasonic audio-kit, around if I want to record audio (with laptop/kn2600) to my SD`s? I questioned this earlier and got a No answer. Is it really so?

€150 seems to me too much for this kit. At least if there`s cheaper solutions...

If you want to play audio files(MP3'S, .WAVE, .WMA) through your 2600 you need Panasonic Jukebox. Panasonic Jukebox inludes the software and the USB Reader/Writer that is part of the SD Audio PC Writing Kit.

You need Jukebox to convert mp3's, etc to a format that the KN7000 AND KN2600 can read.

Larry Hawk

Don't worry, I bought a 64mb card from one of the computer magazine advertsed companies and it works perfectly with my KN7000 and the bonus is it was about 25% cheaper than Panasonic's card.

Aud

It's irritating, though, Aud, that SD memory is still substantially more expensive than compact flash, and whereas compact flash is going to be available soon in a 1 gigabyte card, the max on SD I have found is 256MB, which is not that much when you are using wav files. (By the way, I WAS talking earlier about very cheap universal SD card readers/writers for the transmission of audio files in wav or other formats that are ultimately re-encodable as MP3Pro, not about the Technics or MIDI data transfer system. Of course, you don't need to bother with the SD card if you use a direct USB hook-up.) Leo.

SD is available in 512 MB now for around $140 and the 1G should be out this year. Cheapest 512 MB compact flash would be around $95 in comparison now, but might be slower. Compact flash has been available in 1G for a while (I have 2 of them) the max cf now is 6G at around $5000

The Panasonic reader is needed to put audio on the SD card to play back in the 7000 or 2600, virtually any reader will do for technics and midi files. The 7000 and 2600 don't use wave files, a 128 card can hold around 45-50 typical songs in audio format high quality, some more if you use the normal compression for keyboard playback.

Thanks for that information. The cut-price dealers in the Channel Islands that we have contacted aren't yet selling them, but I'll harass them now I know. There is a quantum price leap over the 256MB, howwever, so it'll probaby be a while before the unit cost becomes comparable. Leo.