The QX-1 was able to power the 3.5 floppy drive just fine. Now when I turned on the Yamaha QX-1 I noticed the following:ġ. I then plugged in the floppy drive and power cable. It was long too, so I could keep the original 5.25 inside and simply slide the cable and power cable outside the QX-1 box. At the used music shop I got really lucky today and found an old 3.5 / 5. I opened up the Yamaha QX-1 and found it quite easy to locate and unplug the floppy cable and power cable. I also have an HxC Floppy Emulator which I may test as well. I had an extra 720KB Shugart drive so I thought that would be a good place to start. With that said I elected to take a stab at installing a 3.5 inch drive. Thanks to Peter for the links but unfortunately from Japan I couldn’t grab those. I received the Yamaha QX-1 today but unfortunately I don’t have a spare floppy to test it….laugh. I made this really quick and will do a follow-up soon. Here’s a new video of the Yamaha QX-1 attached to the HxC SD card floppy emulator. HXCSDFE.CFG – HxC Yamaha QX-1 config file.Įmpty01.hfe – HxC Yamaha QX-1 formatted blank floppy.
The Yamaha QX-1 is much more usable now and with 8 midi outs, it’s awesome!!īy popular request I have here the following: The QX-1 runs silent, faster, and can hold as many floppies as you can store on an SD card. UPDATE: I managed to get the HxC Floppy Emulator connected and working with the Yamaha QX-1. That I believe was back in 1989 during my first year at the U of W! Wow! The last time I used a 5.25 floppy disk was back in University when I had to write a report using MS Word in the computer lab. I’m just excited I get to “hopefully” use one of those new 5.25 foppy disks I bought recently.
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Once I get the Yamaha QX-1 in the mail, I’ll update this post with some comments about the condition of the floppy drive. So my fingers are crossed that the drive components are not that ancient. If I can learn more about it, I should be able to find out a suitable replacement for it.
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Living here in Japan I’ve had to deal with a lot of mail order companies over the past 20 years and Route66Studios ranks at the bottom in my experience, so I’m going to try and look for another way should I require a floppy drive replacement.īasically what I need to do is crack open the Yamaha QX-1 and inspect the factory drive and hardware controller. I did read about a replacement 3.25 drive, but cringed when I found out it was from Route66Studios which, sorry I’m not a big fan of. Thus the I’m currently checking out my options for either a replacement drive OR an emulator of sorts to throw into the Yamaha QX-1. There is a very high probability that the floppy drive will not work.
By the way, the Yamaha QX-1 has been impossible to find in Japan lately which is why I elected to buy one off Ebay.Īlthough the LCD and Power have been tested on the Yamaha QX-1, I am still awaiting delivery of the unit to test the floppy drive. I actually bought about 10 brand new boxes of 5.25 floppy disks about a year ago for under a dollar a box here in Japan. The one drawback is that it requires a working 5.25 floppy drive. It’s also a kind of a large sequencer and likely heavy. I don’t know a lot about the Yamaha QX-1, but it does have the 8 midi outputs coming out of the back, 8 polyphonic tracks, 80,000 notes, and an accurate clock resolution of 384 ppq (pulses per quarter note). As a kid growing up in the 80’s I could only drool over these in the music shop and now I can enjoy a little nostalgia and own them both. I really like these old school sequencers. I bought a Yamaha QX-3 about six months ago here in Japan and always wanted to have the Yamaha QX-1 as well. Yesterday I took a gamble and bought a Yamaha QX-1 sequencer off Ebay for a decent price.