Flashing The SCSI2SD v5.5 Plug-In Drive - Kurzweil - Ensoniq

[@dixiewood4606]

Hank Coffey is my favorite channel. I subscribed, can't wait for the next one.

[@HankCoffey]

You are so awesome Dixie ♥️💋

[@jennyparks7700]

WOW, Really unique thinking. 👌👌👌

[@HankCoffey]

Thanks Jenny 🙂👍

[@josefinabarnes7650]

Appreciate your talent.

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Josefina ♥️

[@heymynameisharry]

Great vid!

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Harry!

[@EmberwolfXR]

thank you, i have a k2000 and this is exactly what i was looking for....many thanks

[@HankCoffey]

Yep, these drives work great on my k2000. Once the drive is flashed properly you are good to go. I have other videos on my channel installing the Kurzweil drive.

[@stevezeno]

To clarify a point made in the video: the TS keyboards come stock with 2 Meg of sample memory; equivalent to 4,000 blocks of sample data. The expander kit boosts your TS's sample memory to the maximum 8 Meg capacity, and you'll be able to load over 16,000 blocks of sampled sounds (8114 blocks in Bank S8, and 8191 blocks in Bank S9).

[@HankCoffey]

I haven't messed with my hardware keyboards in so long, I am forgetting this stuff.

[@trepintate4604]

Awesome Video and gear. And Scott Bray is sure legit! The emulator/SD card reader for my ASR-10 gave it new life

[@HankCoffey]

Thanks man, yeah here is my ASR kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4GwoZKFi7d3rJY 👍

[@asakhatun9014]

Keep doing this type of amazing video. 😱

[@HankCoffey]

Hi Asa! Thank you 🙂

[@dez5]

this is a rare video on KZbin, thanks for sharing your experience. I want to do the same thing for My MPC3000 and K2000RS 🎹

[@electreelife]

Also got my K2500X loaded with GOODIES from Scott synth plus

[@theaudioeng]

Super helpful there Hank. Looking at for my beloved TS--10!! 😎👍🎹🇬🇧🍻

[@HankCoffey]

It's complicated to make the libraries work properly. But once you do, it's awesome.

[@theaudioeng]

@@HankCoffey 😁👍

[@EvLoutonian]

Nice one! You covered a lot of ground! Hoping I can get something like this working on my ASR10 (which is not happy with Zip drives AT ALL!)

[@HankCoffey]

Yeah, I'd like to have a ASR10, but I can't afford one. lol.

[@joemurray1664]

Good job Hank! Thats still confusing to me.

[@HankCoffey]

I know, it's complicated messing with old computer stuff. Thanks Joe!

[@robertclarkguitar]

Also my bell is on. Why am I not getting notified?

[@HankCoffey]

Do you look at your subscriptions feed? All videos that your sub'd channels post are listed there. If you want a actual real time notification to pop up on your phone or browser, you have to select ALL notifications on the bell. Try un-clicking the bell to NONE... then re-click... You should see a box to select ALL notifications.

[@The1stMrJohn]

I've given up with trying to get my KZbin notifications to work Robert! Hope you and Joda are doing okay, coincedienty i was just playing some of your great videos only a few hours ago and was jamming along on my guitar to them 👍😀 💚🐕🎵🎸🌏

[@HankCoffey]

@@The1stMrJohn I'm going live in few mins JohnJohn, about 5 or 10.

[@robertclarkguitar]

@@The1stMrJohn Man that made my day!!!!

[@robertclarkguitar]

I want the one Rick Wright used. Kurzweil

[@tamay9739]

Hello. Super good video! How you backup your scsi2sd on pc? I lost all of my beats because the sd card is broken! It‘s a shame. I don‘t want this again. Do you have an advice for me?

[@HankCoffey]

I use Macs, so I use DD commands in terminal to make an exact disk image of the SD card. Then it goes to my normal file data storage. If I need to restore to a new card later, I use Balena Etcher to flash the Image to a new SD card. Ensoniq format is alien to computers. So you have to copy/backup by disk sectors. It's difficult working with Ensoniq data.

[@chrismitchell1980]

Cool, 2 yrs later hows it working? Also how did you transfer all of your floppies to it? I have a lot of Floppies, Samples, Sounds and sequences

[@HankCoffey]

I put in a Gotek USB in the floppy slot... because SCSI on a TS is read only. You still need the Floppy platform to save stuff.... My SCSI2SD stuff is mostly CD ROM libraries.... It still works great.

[@bennethos]

attempting to do this for a Roland s760.

[@HankCoffey]

I wish you luck with it, it can be stressful.

[@eduard_schneider]

Great video, Hank! Only problem I got, the SCSI partitions don't show up on my menu. I've loaded the XML, looks legit. Then I hit refresh as you did, but no baaammm ... just nothing happens :( Any advice? Thanks, man

[@HankCoffey]

What menu? Translator? I'm just a hobbyist that was tinkering with these boards for a while. They are in storage most of the time. If you are using translator, make sure you have "use XML settings" checked. Then you have to format to Ensoniq, and Translator will do the partitions. I don't even know if you're using translator, you have to specify.

[@eduard_schneider]

@@HankCoffey yes Sir, in Translator Free on a Mac, just as you did. I manage to format the SD card partitions on the ASR-10 via SCS2SDv6 but Translator just won't recognize it as a proprietary device.

[@HankCoffey]

@@eduard_schneider email Garth at Chicken Systems. I would format the SD with Translator. Take your SCSI2SD flash settings XML, load it in translator. Format to Ensoniq in translator. But, Email Garth. I only know enough to get by.

[@HankCoffey]

@@eduard_schneider and see, I don't know jack about v6. It's different. Garth knows.

[@EmberwolfXR]

Yes, it's my favorite romper, mine has the 64meg expansion. I have a cdrom, and zipdisk but the zip went out recently. I also have the hard drive from 1994 but it's also dead. The CD works fine, but with so much sample ram I need an sd option. 64meg is alot of sample data.

[@HankCoffey]

That's cool, I bought mine for $150... So there are videos of everything I've done to mine on my channel. Fixed a key... Cleaned... Display... Ram... Orch, contemporary, patch memory expansion, VX conversion.. drives... And I don't remember all else.

[@Metamophisis]

Hank where did you get your scsi2sd drive from man?

[@HankCoffey]

It's been years ago. I bought it from a computer company out west. I don't remember the company and I can't find it online. Probably the best place to look is eBay or SamplerZone. SamplerZone sells them. It's Garth from Chicken Systems.

[@HankCoffey]

SamplerZone is the best place to buy them. This one is a v5.5. You can choose the housing color from SamplerZone. I got my internal scsi2sd drives from them.

[@ChristianFernandoPerucchi]

Hi Hank! this is an awesome informative video! I got a Zulu SCSI2Sd Kurzweil sees it but it says mounting error, and the SCSI2SD util cant see the Device, i tried with 5 cables and mac and pc , also several SCSI2SDUtil versions, on windws and mac PICODevice Is detected so i dont know what else to do

[@HankCoffey]

I've never used a Zulu, I never work on these keyboards anymore. The only thing I can recommend is to contact Samplerzone and see if Garth will help you. They sell the Zulu units I think. They just left for vacation though. So it will be a week or so before they will answer email probably.

[@ChristianFernandoPerucchi]

@@HankCoffey Thanks so much for this lead! will keep posted! thanks!

[@HankCoffey]

@@ChristianFernandoPerucchi cool, Garth can be rude, but knows his sh. Just take it easy with the questions, you should get the help you need.

[@ChristianFernandoPerucchi]

Hi @@denlehmann all working now! i needed to upgrade the firmware, simple as drag and drop on the SD , now is reading everything is wonderful

[@ChristianFernandoPerucchi]

Zuluscsi mini, My kurzweil is all upgraded to VX latest OS chips and Daughterboars just as Hanks upgrades@@denlehmann

[@72cpugeek]

Do you sell those sounds on already on sad cards ???

[@HankCoffey]

No, I don't. You would have to flash your drive with my drive partitions with a xml. Then there can be tech issues doing that. It would take me a while to make the cards, then mail them... It's not worth the time.

[@CARambolagen]

I don't undestand a word. Do you need an extra power source or not???

[@HankCoffey]

Without my modification, yes you need a power source. That's why I did the mod.

[@parkerpeter928]

good evening do you sell the img files with the banks inside I can't put my .hfe files in my sd thank you

[@HankCoffey]

.hfe files are images for Gotek USB drives to mount. SD cards need to have the actual instrument files on them. You will have to make your own SD cards using something like Chicken Systems Translator. It's not an easy process. My SD images are useless to you unless you flash your drive with my xml settings.

[@deafbyhiphop]

I was thinking of getting one of these scsi2sd things for my mpc 60 but now im incredibly confused 🤣 i dont know anything about any of this lol

[@HankCoffey]

SCSI2SD is pretty complicated to setup. Once it's set up though, it works. The hardest part is getting files on the partitions where the machine will read them. Ensoniq is a real pain in the az. Akai would be easier.

[@deafbyhiphop]

@@HankCoffey is this necessary though? I cant try to just plug and play?

[@HankCoffey]

@@deafbyhiphop if you're not needing to put any files on it from a computer, the SCSI2SD might come to you already flashed... You might be able to just format it on the Akai and use it. I don't know.

[@deafbyhiphop]

@@HankCoffey oh nah im just trying to save some samples that i sample into the mpc like from the turntable. Im not transfering any files from my computer at all

[@HankCoffey]

@@deafbyhiphop chances are good you can plug and play it. You might have to format the SCSI IDs with the MPC... Which is like formating a disk.

[@D84D]

can you get a external sd for a kurzweil k2500?

[@HankCoffey]

Yes, these scsi2sd drives work on a k2500.

[@D84D]

@@HankCoffey ok my goal is to install the SD and change my chips from 3.20 to the 3.87. For the life of me I can't find the chips for my 98' k2500. They are different than the k2000

[@HankCoffey]

@@D84D 2 different keyboards. SD is great when you get them setup. Making SD cards isn't user friendly. Good luck man. Contact SynthPlus in Merit Island FL. He's a Kurzweil expert. Sells the chips. eBay seller SynthPlus.

[@D84D]

@@HankCoffeyThanks again Hank, you're the Guy!!!

[@D84D]

Hey just want to give you and update. I bought me a scsiSD emulator for my k2500 from Scott over at Synthplus. He also let me know that the k2500s OS 3.20 is the highest that it goes and isn't necessary to update that. This simplified things for me. Now I ask, where is the best place to akai, ensoniq and olther sounds. Because after I get this thing installled it's my mission to get stocked up on as many sounds as poss. Anyway, Happy New Year and thanks for all your help!

[@mrlionel1965]

I will say, I love your videos, but I found this one extremely confusing to follow. I’ll stick with my USB stick.

[@HankCoffey]

Yeah, SCSI2SD units are multiple drives internally on the same board. They have to be flashed with information so each drive knows what sectors of the SD card to use, they each have their own section of the SD. Once setup, you don't have to worry about it. But they are more complicated than the USB drives. But way faster.

[@The1stMrJohn]

😀🐻🍩🐕🎸🎵🎹🐾

[@HankCoffey]

JahnJaaaan! 😀🐻🍩🙂🙃😀🎸🍩