Triton Pro-X help needed

freekoffhisleash · Post by **freekoffhisleash** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:55 pm

Hi all. Am a newbie around here. Played keys for years and years. Back in the day, I had the DX-7 when it first came out, along with a Korg DW-6000 and DW-8000.
Have played very little in the last 5 years, because I spend much more time playing guitar. Bought a used pro-x 88 about 5 years ago. Have done very little with it since. It has the old floppy drive. Tired of it wasting away in its corner, and want to get back into it. Since it was used when I bought it, I have been continually frustrated with the awful sounds loaded on it. And that has been the biggest reason it has sat here, along with getting frustrated over not being able to get it to do what I want it to do! I want to update it as much as I can. But am clueless on where I need to go and what I need to do to get it where it needs to be.
Just would appreciate any ideas from some of the pro's around here on updating software. Can the floppy be replaced with a newer storage type on these things? Also am on a budget, and cant afford to spend a ton on it, but would like to get the latest, most updated sounds that I can get for it.
Also, for my guitar fx, I can just load upgrades, etc. straight from my Mac via MIDI. Can I do the same on the Triton, or do I have to load it from floppy?

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:07 pm

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=45286

-Mc

freekoffhisleash · Post by **freekoffhisleash** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:06 am

Thanks McHale. Not sure if you saw the last part of the question, although you may have answered it with your link. Can I upload sounds, etc. to the Triton via MIDI and my Mac?
Again, thanks for the quick response. Although being a mechanical retard, I will probably have to have my local music store do this for me.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:12 am

for loading sounds, you would save them on CF card, floppy disk, etc. There would be no reason to use the mac to send SYSEX to the Triton.

Does your Triton have the SCSI card? You should have a DB25 on the back of the synth if you do...

-Mc

freekoffhisleash · Post by **freekoffhisleash** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:20 am

McHale wrote:for loading sounds, you would save them on CF card, floppy disk, etc. There would be no reason to use the mac to send SYSEX to the Triton.

Does your Triton have the SCSI card? You should have a DB25 on the back of the synth if you do...

-Mc

Dont see any DB25. There is a slot for SCSI on the back of it though.
Since I dont have any floppies, I had looked through some of the available downloads of sounds and such, and thought that I could download those files to my Mac, and load them to the Triton via MIDI, but from what I have seen so far, apparently I cannot do that.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:26 am

just copy the .pcg file to a floppy disk and load from the floppy. That's the simplest by far and what I still do (except I use Zip disks).

-Mc