This morning I looked at my VZ-8m and wondered the same thing--would having a RAM Card be helpful to you. (I don't have one. I don't recall seeing them for sale on e-bay, except perhaps once, and the price was very high.)
Even so, with the card you could store the patches you created, but as for uploading others, you'd still have to get them into your VZ.
I haven't had a chance to try creating a midi file with one of the VZ banks. Do you have a way to "play" a midi file to your VZ? If so, is there a specific bank you'd like me to try converting?
As for the number of presets you'd be able to access with a card, I am not sure. I know that the VZ-8m has 3 build-in banks of 64 patches and 64 op-mems: INT, PST1, PST2. PST 1 & PST 2 are accessible from ROM. By using the SHIFT button, the display and choices (A-1 . . . H-8) shift from INT, to PST1, to PST2, and bank to INT.
There is a little trick with the VZ-8m where you
can send a sysex SHIFT command to determine the source for patch changes 64..127. In other words, for example, 0..63 can be INT and 64..127 can be PST2.
The VZ-8m only has a max of 8 voices, but it might be easier to find than a VZ RAM card.
Not sure this helps, but maybe.
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> One thing I would like to find out is if you were to use a rom card would this change the midi buffer full problem.Instead of trying to overwrite the internal memory
> ,the ram card is the destination for the new patches.I don't have a card to test it,if I did I should be able to access 128 sounds instead of only 64.Is this correct or am I wrong?Will this solve my midi buffer full problem.
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> --- In CZ-VZ-Files@ yahoogroups. com, Vince <vbrotz62@ .> wrote:
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> > The thing is I'm not daisy chaining them.Even when I have 1 usb midi interface hooked up ,I'm still getting midi buffer full.I went through the whole manual,Either I'm blind or there is nothing about it in the manual.The only thing that helps is to initialize it,but after I load a bank same thing.Any suggestions?
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Sham-WOW, just kidding. I had a similiar problem when I first tried loading and had the VZ-1 hooked up using the midi out from my Audigy2 Soundblaster into one of my Digital MX-8 midi patchbays then onto the VZ-1 midi ports. The midi buffer of the MX-8 patchbay would fill up and I would get the same error on the VZ-1 you are getting. By going stright out of the computer into the VZ-1 I was able to bypass the MX-8 and all was well. I would say that something similiar is going on with the midi to usb conversion going on on your setup. Anyway to reroute your midi connections to your computer? Dont forget that the VZ and your computer talk back and forth during the data exchange, not just out from the computer and in on the VZ, you need the out from the VZ back into the computer. The manual notes that when you are doing this (Loading Voice and Operational patches)it is mimicking the process that you would take if you were hooking two VZ's
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(your computer being the second VZ). I don't know if this helps but maybe gives you more to think about.
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