You will need an older PC, preferably using MSDOS Boot.
#Floppy disk formatting software
The sort of software that will do this sort of thing on a PC may NOT run on later versions of Windows from XP onwards, as such Windows systems do NOT allow the required low-level access to hardware (the floppy disk controller). I used such software on Yamaha disks before I got hold of the official Yamaha sofware to do the job properly, and back then was able to extract music files, and convert the data from the Yamaha (not quite) mifi file to useable midi files. The Yamaha software I have may not work, but I have other general disk/sector editing software that will look at the disk sector-by-sector and tell me what's on the disk, and how it's organised. I would be VERY interested to get hold of a Roland disk to have a look at the data on it. MID) saved on a PC system may NOT work on a Roland device (such as the RA-95) because it uses options not supported by the Roland system (for example the number of tracks in the midi file). As well as this, there seem to be some complications regarding the structure of supposedly midi (.mid) files, such that a file saved on a Roland system MAY play back OK on a PC sequencer, but a 'standard' midi file (/SMF or. Some of the file types used by Roland are peculiar to Roland systems and may need further special software to manipulate them, but I cannot say much more without seeing the files. In addition to the above, I understand that there are some differences between the file systems. I have such software for the Yamaha system, which can list what files are on a disk, and can convert a Yamaha disk to a MSDOS copy that CAN be used normally on a PC, and such a disk can be converted back to the Yamaha format. I'm sure that Roland have such software available. However, if you use a suitable piece of software that bypasses the DOS filesystem and accesses the disk directly, then this software WILL be able to access the Roland files and read, play, or save them. However, the high level system is different, so the files are not arranged in the same way, so if you put a RA-95 disk into a PC and try to use MSDOS or Windows to access the disk you will see nothing, or maybe garbage. The low level system seems to be the same as that used by the PC (the computer) and will be 80 tracks of 8 sectors for the DD disks, and 18 sectors for the HD disks. I've not had any of the Roland ones to play with.ĭisks have two aspects to the 'format', the low level system which defines the number and details of the tracks and the sectors and the size of the sectors on the disk, and the high level system which looks after the way that files are arranged on the disk. I suspect that the situation is similar to that for Yamaha disks for their 'Disk Orchestra files, and their ESEQ files, that I have some experience with. This is a little complicated, pretty much Yes, BUT.
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