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Jim Inman
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Is there a way to transfer Roland VS-840 data onto PC hard drive with the intent of sending the data back to the VS for further editing? Perhaps via the optical output (which is it's only digital output)? Or perhaps a portable zip drive -- if you follow my logic: remove the zip disc from the internal zip drive of the VS, insert it into an external zip drive attached to the PC, then "send" the data to the PC. Then when ready to reload songs into the VS, reverse the process. Sounds great, doesn't it? Somehow, I'm imagining that Roland has insured that's not going to be possible through some greedy, customer-controlling format. If that's the case, who wants a real steal on a VS-840 that still smells new? I really like the idea of a hands-on piece of recording hardware, but storage is like under the seat on a cheap plane trip. Roland: are you listening? Hey, this doesn't play well for somebody who might want to dump the thing, does it? If there's just no practicle way, does anybody know where to buy Zip discs for anything substantially less than about ten bucks apiece? Outrageous for only 100MG (two songs tops). And lastly, does anybody know why Roland's owner's manual claims a zip disc can store 200 songs? Maybe in the game "I can name that tune in 2 notes."