Transferring Cubase files from Atari to PC

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Hello,

I was working many years ago on Atari STe and have
a bunch of Floppy discs with .arr files.
I want to have them now working on PC - Cubase SX, (Win. XP)

The problem is that the floppy drive that I have in my PC
is not reading those old floppy discs. They are working thou
on Atari - so I'm sure that they are ok.
My question is what specific model of a floppy drive should
I buy to open MF2-DD Floppy Discs - Verbatims.

The next problem will be to open those .arr files -
but I hope I will do that on Cubase SX 1, I have, right ?

I will greatly appreciate Your advices...
thanks thanks

Arek
 
I seriously doubt Atari and PC floppies are compatible, for sure the format is different. You might try a serial to serial connection and transfer your files that way. Then, who knows if the arr files will work on your pc with Cubase. You'll probably be the first to try!!
 
This is a tricky one. The Atari and Amiga used DD floppies, as did early PCs. However, at the time that Ataris and Amigas disappeared, HD floppies were coming in. Most floppy drives on PCs will read HD, but not DD. One way to deal with this is to see if you can find an old floppy drive (i.e. one that will read DD disks) and mount that in your PC. The other thing that you can try (which worked okay on the Amiga), is to see if you can save the project file onto an HD disk loaded in your Atari, i.e. load up the project from the DD disk, insert an HD disk and try saving to that.
 
This might work easier/better. Try using the Atari ST to play the data into your PCs audio recording interface. I realize that this won't be a digital to digital copy, but it might be the fastest way go save your past.

Racherik
 
I've moved files from Atari/Cubase to a PC....a long time ago.
They weren't .arr files they were a MIDI type of file (can't recall the extension at the moment)...and they were PC compatible.

AFA the PC simply not recognizing the DD floppy...well, that's a different issue. I would think HD floppy readers should be able to recognize a DD floppy...but not the other way around.

If I'm remembering correctly...you needed to first format that disk in the PC...and then take it to the Atari (it worked) for file transfers. I think if you format the disk in the Atari....it will not be read by the PC.
 
Thank You all Guys,

eventually after some unsuccesfull attemps
with floppy disks I decided to do midi dump
but here's my question regarding it

I want to save some time, cos I have
a lot of songs and I'd love to avoid dumping track by track.
How can I assign specific midi channels in Atari to PC
so after multi-midi track recording in PC I will
get the same image that I have in Atari after playing the song
just once.
Is it possible.


thank You

Arek
 
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