Boss VF-1 Effect Processor

hello mate

>(2) In Greg's mail, I saw the word - Sitar.  Or are there prebuilt
>sound patches??? I am really interested to get 
>Sitar and any other sounds. How do I get those.

try downloading dumpster or midi-ox-  they are free sysex loaders/savers-
which will send the relevant sysex files to the vf-1,  if your knew to
sysex- its simply midi information which is exclusive to the vf-1,  try
loading it to another piece of kit and it wont recognise it,  its different
to your normal smf info which is stuff like note on and control change-  its
your settings for all the parameters.

i take it you've d'loaded the patch zip files from the files section.  unzip
and load the sysex into dumpster or midi ox-  connect the midi out of the
vf-1 to the midi in of the pc and the midi out of the pc to the midi in of
the vf-1.  now set the midi channel of the vf-1 to match the midi channel of
the software sequencer (read the section on receiving sysex in the manual to
make the right settings in utility mode).

you can then load the sysex patches by pressing 'send' on the software sysex
app.  the vf-1 will receive and save the new patch; if you haven't connected
vf-1 via midi to a sequencer do you know that there is a operating system
update which amongst other things gives you a new algorithm-  a speaker
modeller -  this is cool!!

>This gives
>me a feeling that some of these patches can be used
>to transform input sounds.

exactly, the sitar patch and others are guitar patches meaning you can plug
your guitar into the front input (i usually preamplify mine) and voila you
can get the sitar sound as mentioned and loads more- i haven't yet tried all
the new patches so don't know if there ones for other instruments- voice or
keyboard etc but there is no reason you cant plug the keyboard directly into
the front-  i often do with my synths.

usually i have the vf-1 over an aux bus- but for direct processing use an
out from the instrument straight in.

hope that helps

greg
 


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Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot for taking the time out and replying my
previous email. I was successful n sending a couple of
SysEx patches. Howerver, I have two more questions:

(1) Most of the patches seem to be for Guitars only.
I don't play a guitar. But use guitar in my sequences
that I sequence on my Keyboard. I sent various Guitar
sounds (like 12 Strings, Nylon, Electric etc) through
'Sitar' patch but somehow the level was too high and
didn't get any much audible output. Any suggestions?

(2) Can you point to any good Vocal Effect patches and
also to other instrument sounds?

Thanks
Dhawal

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