Ted,

When you record a song and save that song to a floppy you are not saving any music on it as when you record to a tape. All that is saved on the floppy is Digital information. Like what key was pushed down, for how long, the velocity, what sound was assigned to it, etc. Also what rhythm, what effects and so forth. When you have the floppy inserted into the KN the KN reads that info and the machine sort of repeats what you had done previously. The KN makes the music the floppy only instructs it what to do. Sort of like the old player piano music roll. The roll had no music sound on it just the instructions to the piano for the key to press. Little holes punched into paper. So when you slip that floppy into your computer the computer looks at the set of instructions and says you got the wrong guy. I aint got anything built into me that can do what you say. I don’t have any rhythm chips. What the heck is a trumpet or piano sound? I don’t have a sound chip. All I got is a pentium 3 chip. Come on Ted I compute, I don’t play. And that’s the story triangle of the KN, the floppy and the computer. I wonder if the computer is jealous of how the KN and the floppy is getting together. Then again maybe the KN don’t like the relationship the computer has with a floppy of it’s kind. And that’s the way life is.

Now the CD drive in your computer. It’s only half literate. It can read but it can’t write! Kind of like Adam and Eve. Before Eve was taken out of Adam he could do both. After Eve was taken out of Adam only Eve could make babies. And so with CD’s. You have a CD and then there are CD R/RW. A CD only reads em but a CD R/RW can not only read em but make em also. Got the idea?

Grandpa Doug