Does anyone know a way to import the midi data off of ancient floppy’s made with cubase 2.0? I don’t have a floppy reader anymore and I won’t buy one if there isn’t a way to import the data into the modern version of the program. Any forum knowledge is greatly appreciated!
1 Like
What kind of data? Midi files on the 3.5" disk? .all files?
If yes to either and if the floppy is readable, sure, those can he copied to a windows11 hard drive and then, in various steps (for many of us), can be made/saved for loading into Cubendo 14+
Some of the earlier versions could so it - maybe up to Cubase 5 if I’m not mistaken. Think it was on the Import Dialog.
I would be glad with the midi data. The floppy’s are formatted and written upon by an Atari 1040ST. Does Windows recognize this?
What you really mean is “does floppy drive brandxyz (connected to windows version **) see the atari diskette files for copying onto the win ** hard drive”.
Depends.
Many cases…yes. That’s how I copied hundreds of my Atari disk files to pc over the years.
Locate someone in your city who owns an older pc with BUILT-IN floppy drive (which is always wired to the mobo)…not an ext usb floppy…take one or several of your floppies to that person…pop it in the drive…see if the data is recognized and copy-able to their hard drive.
At least that is hopeful news. Now for that pc with a floppy… Thank you very much!
The original disks might not still be readable after such a long time, but write-protect them straight away.
Windows (PCs) can not read Atari 720k disks, but the Atari ST can read (and write to) 720k disks formatted on a PC.
See if you can find someone with a working Atari ST first, to see if the disks can be read. The trick then is to format a new floppy on a PC in 720k format, and use the Atari ST to copy the files from the original disk (if it is still readable) and write them onto the floppy formatted on the PC. You do not need Cubase on the Atari ST to do this.
Atari ST Cubase files will most likely be in .ALL format, and the last version of Cubase that could read these was Cubase SX3, which requires a license on a hardware USB-eLicenser.
1 Like
After you typed that, I had to walk out and open the 1985 archive box to re-check how I was doing floppy conversions between Atari, Commodore, Mac, pc etc from my (lucky for me) detailed notes.
While I have various, working systems (stellar and of their time 
) loaded with dos, win3.11, win95, 98se, xp, vista, 7, 11pro…yeah …I did NOT use windows for the atari transfers.
I did all those in dos 6.22, with internal drives, 720k disks, and various tiny .exe apps (which seems I still have) for dos from those days.
I most likely experimented with win95 and 98…probably unsuccessfully…but by those years, I’d already transferred all the 1040/520 floppies as well as I still had all the Atari machines/monitors, although wasn’t using them. I believe I was using ext floppy drives on all the 1040/520s in tandem with their internal drives for faster copying.
I may have also been doing the route where I formatted ss 720k blanks on dos 6.22…popped those into an Atari, copied files, and then immediately popped back to the pc for transfer. My notes don’t show doing that though as I had all these little dos apps geared for moving Atari files.
Exactly, I started doing that as soon as the first version of Cubase for PC appeared, as I used both parallel for a period.
Thanks everyone. I think I am gonna have a drink.