The only empty formatted floppy I spared did of course have a bad sector.
Will provide a clean image soon.
In the mean time, I believe the data to be close to or in Roland MRC file format (.sng), as that is what was used with their MC-300 / MC-500 / MC-50 sequencers and later workstations (all up till the '00) where a continuation of it (Super-MRC).
Don`t see much reason for them to do a whole separate technology just for this synth alone.
I also believe that Roland intentionally used incompatible floppy formats to avoid loss of interest in the MC series, although the D-20 is a very dumbed down sequencer in comparison.
The problem is conversion, usually paid tools are available (a DOS program that is still sold today), but the MC series also had a program to run on the sequencer to convert between SMF (Standard MIDI file) and MRC.
Luckily, I have someone lending me an MC-500 sequencer.
Exiting times indeed!
Will provide a clean image soon.
In the mean time, I believe the data to be close to or in Roland MRC file format (.sng), as that is what was used with their MC-300 / MC-500 / MC-50 sequencers and later workstations (all up till the '00) where a continuation of it (Super-MRC).
Don`t see much reason for them to do a whole separate technology just for this synth alone.
I also believe that Roland intentionally used incompatible floppy formats to avoid loss of interest in the MC series, although the D-20 is a very dumbed down sequencer in comparison.
The problem is conversion, usually paid tools are available (a DOS program that is still sold today), but the MC series also had a program to run on the sequencer to convert between SMF (Standard MIDI file) and MRC.
Luckily, I have someone lending me an MC-500 sequencer.
Exiting times indeed!