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Whats up guys, I could use your expertise here.
I have a bunch of songs saved on my memory card for my Triton LE 88. I'm trying to transfer them onto my computer to listen to through like a myspace or something. Is this possible? Do I need to buy anything? I'm a novice w/ the electronics so please dumb it down if you could. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Yes its possible. All you need to do is buy is a Smartmedia card reader.....you could find one on Amazon for less than $10...i found one for $5 bucks!!

thanks! will any brand due or do you prefer one?

Any brand will do...my card reader is from compaq but im pretty sure any other brand will work.

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I should point out that you won't be able to listen to the songs on your computer or do anything else with them except if saved as .smf file and then you will ony have the MIDI data for opening in another program to make sounds using other synths etc.

The TR/LE doesn't have any feature to export an audio mix of a track (I believe the new M3 and M50? have this feature).
Typically what you would do is use an audio interface or high quality sound card hooked up to your TR/LE to play back your sequence and record the audio directly from the keyboard's outputs.

This is the only way to get your finished songs off the keyboard in a format that anyone else can open.

You should think of the data in the .smf and .sng files as MIDI and project data like in a cubase, logic, or any other sequencer software's project file format.
It doesn't hold any audio, only instructions for the program or synth to return to the settings for that particular song.

Thanks X, I appreciate the response. Some of it was a little over my head cause Im a newbie w/ the Korg and programming. Are you basically saying that even if I get the reader and put the song on my computer I wont be able to listen to it? Or just other people won't be able to? Sorry for my lack of knowledge at this point but Im getting there.

Well the thing is that the songs in TR are in a way MIDI files and they give only information what notes to be played. If you want to share your songs you have to record audio from outputs into a computer.

Gluzee wrote:Thanks X, I appreciate the response. Some of it was a little over my head cause Im a newbie w/ the Korg and programming. Are you basically saying that even if I get the reader and put the song on my computer I wont be able to listen to it? Or just other people won't be able to? Sorry for my lack of knowledge at this point but Im getting there.

you nor anyone else will be able to do anything with them.
in the TR there is an option to save as 'smf' (simple MIDI file) which you can open in other software, but some of the information will be lost and you won't have the sounds of the TR, only the notes that you played.

MIDI doesn't carry any sound. it merely records 'messages' such as 'note 64 on, note 64 off, clock, change controller #10 to 127, etc',
then in the .sng from the TR or LE it will also contain data about what your effect settings are and basically everything you can do in the sequencer.

but it holds no sound so it is only any good for keeping your files safe (storing them on computer). and also good for loading your song on another TR or Triton range keyboard.

as nikola81 said, you will have to directly record from your TR in order to share the actual music with anyone.
so i'm assuming you will want to plug your TR into your computer audio card, or if you have/want to get one, an external audio interface (you can get some USB ones for as cheap as about £40). you will also need software to record in.