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USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be roland?

Postby jimmyjames » Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:17 pm

I was wondering if you can use any usb mem stick or does it have to be a roland one?
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby Rigil » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:09 pm

I have tried lots of different ones, that I use for various work projects and they have all been ok.
I now use three cheap Sandisk 2gb sticks which cost about £5 each and all work fine.

Since Grauw made the editor, I seem to be saving patches individually on my pc.

Hope this helps.
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby Grauw » Sun May 01, 2011 6:10 pm

For me at least 1 USB drive doesn’t work (and that’s a shame ’cause it’s really tiny and would be ideal), but I think most’ll work file. Just don’t spend too much on one thinking because it is pricy it must be higher quality and thus more likely to work with the GAIA because I don’t think it works like that :).

See also this topic for some previous discussion: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=88
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby oxygen » Sat May 07, 2011 3:48 pm

http://www.roland.com/products/en/M-UF2G/index.html

I note that Rolands product is 2 gig, it's probably a wasteful go larger. I'm having a tough time finding small USB sticks for cheap around here.
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby dab777 » Tue May 24, 2011 1:51 am

I have used several types of sticks and most worked fine. Mabey some dont but most do.
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby rodan » Tue May 24, 2011 2:36 am

I think it can be almost any. I have a duracell one that works fine. I think you can only store up to 64 patches per thumb drive so even a 256mb one would work just fine if you can find one for free.
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby samatron » Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:43 pm

I asked that question to a Roland Product demonstrator, and he said you can use any!
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Re: USB Stick, can you use any one or does it have to be rol

Postby Richkyd » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:41 pm

I just bought a basic USB 2.0 stick and it works fine. There is nothing specific or special about the 'official Roland' stick other than the prohibitive price and virtual non existence in stores. Would advise you do get a 2gb version, as per official recommended stick. IE you won't need a bigger capacity stick, or Roland one would be more too...
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