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I bought the Nalbartov USB floppy disk emulator for Krog Triton & Triton Pro, Pro X and Rack two weeks ago on Ebay for $135. Last night I installed it in my Triton Rack. I read the materials they sent me but I was still unsure about mounting the floppy disk emulator drive so I did a web search. I found a post on another forum by a guy who did a Gotek floppy disk emulator install in his Triton Rack. He said that after you remove the 4 screws from the bottom of the rack case and remove the floppy disk drive, you need the 4 spacers that were under the floppy disk drive to support the floppy disk emulator when you put it in. What you do is reinsert the screws at the bottom of the drive (tape them in place) and drop the washer shaped spacers on top of the screws and then use a toothpick to apply glue to hold the spacers until after the glue dries. Then you you remove the original floppy disk screws. The 4 screws that were supplied by Nalbartov are much smaller. After you remove the original screws you are supposed to be able to screw the new screws into the Emulator through the holes in the bottom. I couldn't get the screws started so I removed the Emulator and then directly screwed the slightly too large screws into the 4 holes too make the holes larger. Then I put the Emulator back in place inside the Rack and I was then able to secure it using the 4 screws. The guy in the Gotek post confused me by saying that both cables go back the way they came off the original floppy disk drive. This is true for the larger data cable but the power cable needed to be turned over to connect. After five minutes of trying the force the power cable on the wrong way, I turned the power cable over and connected it smooth as butter, There are two round head screws that hold the faceplate on the emulator. I couldn't get the screw heads through the opening at the front of the Triton so I replaced them with flat head screws that made it possible to make the face of the emulator straight in the hole rather than crooked. OK the Emulator works as advertised but the LED showing the number of the virtual floppy is far too bright for me. (And I usually love bright LED and LED displays but this is too much). I keep the LED covered with a post it note until I need to glance at it. There are two buttons on the front of the emulator. One selects the next program and the other selects by tens. You can't go back, you just use the tens button to cycle through the rest of the 99 virtual floppies which is not a problem for me. When you arrive at the virtual floppy you want, you load it by pushing the Increment button on the Triton. I would keep a list of what is contained in all the virtual floppies because there in no way to set up a Directory in the Emulator. The Emulator just shows you what you have stored in the virtual floppy disk, one at a time, as you select each virtual floppy. Of course if you use an external drive connected to the SCSI port, you can set up Directories showing the banks grouped by type: Factory, Moss, Prorec, Nepro, Users, etc. To be considered is the extra cost of buying the Korg Triton SCSI connector option hardware on Ebay and the cost of the SCSI drive and SCSI cable. The floppy disk emulator only needs a properly formatted USB stick to work. The decision is yours. Both storage solutions work. The Emulator comes with USB formatting software version 1.3 which works with Windows XP just fine.. Version 1.4 of the software is available on the web whiich allows you to back up your Floppy USB stick to your computer. I couldn't get Version 1.3 or Version 1.4 to open a temprorary storage area to save to the USB stick using Windows 8. Maybe I misssed something or did something wrong. I did not contact the seller since Windows XP worked OK for me.Read full review
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