Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Jay that's a great point but I can't tell you how many times I've had
computers
(even fast ones) stagger or fail when doing operations.

I understand your point clearly and I wish there was a 100% reliable way
of setting things up but I'm not aware of one.  I've just found that my SD-1
(as long as I've had it) never studders or has never failed.

My band is going to start playing out soon.  No small gigs either, big stuff
and
I know I have to be able to rely on my gear.  I thought as a back up to buy
another SD-1.  I mean it probably will be a pain to carry around but I got
the
last one for $200 and that price is well worth the peice of mind.

I'm new to this but I also just assumed that no matter how you set up a
sequence
there is always a chance of things going wrong.  Am I off the mark with
that?
How about everyone else?  What is the most popular way of playing sequences
during a gig?  Any info is greatly appreciated, as is yours Jay.  Thanks.

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Barnes" <apdced34@...>
To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] What a sequencing mess


>
> Michael,
> What you're doing seems dangerous for a couple
> reasons.  What if your sequencer on the SD1 goes down
> like mine did recently?  You've lost all your work.
> What if it happens at your gig?  Yeow!
>
> What I do is create each sequence and play the
> sequence directly into my digital recorder.  Then I
> take that and put into my computer.  You can bypass
> one step and record directly to the computer.  When I
> have the entire group of sequences saved like I might
> do with a song, I record them onto a CD or two or
> three.
>
> The sequences are mostly drum but I also add piano,
> organ  etc at times depending on the song.
> When my buddy and I play, we have a list of our songs
> which correspondes to the number of the track on the
> CD.  In other words if we're doing a song like
> Satisfaction, I look at the list and see that it's
> track number 4 (or whatever) and I cue the CD player
> to 4, hit play and we're off and running.  The CD
> player is connected to our sound system.
>
> If I want to change something, like the  volume of the
> organ or whatever I still have everything stored on my
> computer with everything backed up on a CD.  (Each
> track stored separately)  I'll remix the track and
> change the volumes or whatever and re-burn it to a CD.
>
>
> Also, I don't save as MP3 due to the loss of sound
> quality.  This means using two or three discs instead
> of one but they sound much better.
>
> Jay
>
>
> --- Michael C Lesko <MichaelL33@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Ok, so we I got my SD-1, and before reading the
> > manual, I went ahead and
> > started programming all these 80's songs for
> > my newly formed band of 30-somethings.  Anyway I set
> > up each sequence
> > differently, sounds are not on the same tracks,
> > duplicated sequences when I could have just replayed
> > them several times in
> > the song edit mode - ah!  Funny thing is that
> > the songs sound fantastic - perfect, really.
> >
> > Now I carefully structure my sequences with nice
> > neat tracks that I can
> > collapse down for a nice neat menu to run while I'm
> > on stage when the band is ready (which the time is
> > quickly drawing near)  So
> > basically now I have a sets worth of sequences
> > that I've got to clean up or do something with so I
> > don't have to stop and
> > load after each song.  Save recording everything out
> > to mp3 or the like, is there anything I can do here?
> >  Perhaps there is a
> > computer program out there where I can load my
> > sequencer data into a visual interface and clean
> > things up easier?  Perhaps
> > some other way?  Any information would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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