Korg D1600 Digital Mixer question about internal 3.5 ide harddrive.

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How can I transfer all of my music and recording info that's on the removable 3.5 ide hard drive inside my mixer to my computers hard drive? I've seen ide/USB converters but wanted to know if anyone has worked with it. Also, is there a way I can convert my mixers ide to USB? I've seen a converter for an external ide hard drive but not an internal one. Any suggestions?


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You're going to have to burn things to disk and then load it up in the computer. Should be in the manual. If you don't have it, check the Korg site for it.
 
I know I can remove the hard drive and connect an ide to usb adapter to the hard drive and save the info on the hard drive to my computer. What I want to know is if there is an adapter that will connect to the ide female plugs that's inside the mixer (the same plugs that connect to the back of the hard drive that's installed and removable. I know, I installed it) and convert it to usb? I'm still looking for adapter that can do that but all I find are adapters that convert the actual hard drive itself to usb. I don't need that.
 
If it's a regular ide drive you should be able to plug it right into your computer internal ide connections.

The problem is if the recorder uses a non-fat or NTFS format that a system like windows XP cannot read. Kind of like Akai sample discs, they were regular cd roms but they were a proprietary format that only akai samplers could read. (correct me if I'm wrong anyone)

I don't believe you're going to find an USB to ide cable. The cable would have to have an embedded ide controller. I know what you're asking, not the drive to usb but the actual connector inside the D1600 to usb.
 
Sleepy (and everyone else who wishes to reply),

How can I go about finding out what type of format my recorder uses? You stated that if I were to find a cable as such, it would need an embedded ide controller. If I'm correct, the ide controller is built into the removable hard drive which is standard nowadays, so if I can get a cable that converts ide to USB (which they make) and a ide male/male adapter (which they also make) to connect the inside if the mixer's cables to the converter cable, shouldn't the controller from my laptop's hard drive be suffice? This is just my logic and theory of the matter; what's your opinion? Anyone else have any ideas? One more thing, if you were in my shoes, would you even attempt to do it? What kind of damage do you think may result to my mixer or laptop?
 
What you're describing just can't be done.

Think of your recorder as a computer. Now think of a computer. If you plugged in one ide port from one computer to another ide port of another computer, you wouldn't be able to access one computer from the other. This is what you are attempting to do.

Just because the controller would be trying to access a disk. ide to ide would mean that the controller would have to go through the operating system to get to the other disk. The controller goes directly to the disk and using adaptors would make things real tricky.

As far as the format that the D1600 uses, I really don't know.

Here's a good page on the d1600:

http://www.blamepro.com/mwn/D1600.htm

The drive that it uses (standard IDE):

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st340810a.html

It's possible that the drive uses FAT formatting and you can just plug it right into a computer and access it that way. Though it might be bad if it's not. The other issue would be if the D1600 stores files as wav's or aif's or another standard audio format. It's likely that it does because the D1600 MKII has an USB port for file transfers.

Korg made the Korg HDC1 (Hard Drive Carriage) for the D1600. Not sure what it's for but it might be what you need. I can't find any info on it however.
 
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