Boss VF-1 Effect Processor

Someone asked if the Soundiver VF-1 driver actually worked. Well, 
I've tried it and right now I'd have to say NO! You can't request a 
patch or a bank of patches or send them to the unit. You have to 
initiate a dump from the front panel. I don't know if this is a 
limitation of the VF-1 or of the guy who wrote the driver. I haven't 
actually figured out how you send just the edited patch to the VF-1 
and have it accept it. When you click on a patch to edit it you get a 
window that, at the top, shows you the patch name, the algorithm 
and the category. Below that you have three algorithm chains 
shown, but they are the same three for all patches chosen. They 
also aren't the one that actual patch uses (I've been trying to edit 
some patches I wrote for bass using the Bass Multi algorithm. All I 
ever get in the edit window is Guitar 1, Guitar 2 and Acoustic 
Multi). This means that unless you are using one of those three 
then you can't edit your actual algorithm. Lastly, the effect chain of 
each algorithm is much wider than the window (at least on my 
laptop at 1024X768), which means you have to move the window at 
least 3 times to see all settings. The bottom line to me is that the 
VF-1 driver is pretty useless at this point. I have used Soundiver 
with my D-110 (which is a much better written driver) and it seems 
to do much better. Whether it is because the D-110 has a better 
MIDI implimentation for editing or it was just written by a better 
programmer I can't say, but where Soundiver is useful for the D-11, 
it isn't for the VF-1. 

However, in looking around in my VF-1 I think I may have found 
why all the patches I've written have been lower in volume than the 
factory patches, a condition that has really caused a problem in 
using it in my effects chain with my bass amp. 

That's my view on this. If anyone else has tried it and found it really 
useful for editing the VF-1, please do let us all know.


Steve KS4KJ