Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

You've asked that question before and got no answer? Maybe people think
it't too basic.
Well, there are no stupid questions. And maybe I got some answers for
people who always wanted to know everything about syx but never dared to
ask. 
There you go... 

Get yourself a MIDI adapter for your PC and a pair of MIDI cables. Then
take a piece of software to send the prg.syx to your SD-1.

In detail:

1. Hardware / MIDI-Adapter
There are two basic options: you've got a soundcard with a game port.
You can check this when you look into the device manager configuration
or simply check if there are MIDI ports available in the software you
use, see point 2. 
If that's positive:
There are adapter cables available which connect to the game port of
your soundcard. 

If it's negative - no soundcard with MIDI support:
Look for a USB Midi (or serial or parallel if you don't have USB)
interface like Midiman or Midisport, there are plenty on ebay and there
are shops which sell them... 

Connect the MIDI out of the adapter to the MIDI in of the SD-1.
Basically that's enough but once you become familiar with sysex and midi
stuff you might want to also connect the MIDI in of the adapter to the
MIDI out of your SD-1 to save your valuable sounds better than on flimsy
floppies.

2. Software
Download the Soundlib librarian from the file section which helps you to
sort through the .syx files. You can use it to creaete banks with your
faqvourite sounds and put them in the right order.
When you install Soundlib you might be asked to configure a MIDI in and
a MIDI out port. If you've got the soundcard with the game port there
should be a MPU-401 available. You must assign this to both Midi in and
out. In case you've got a USB interface it's the same procedure, just
the port names are different.
If Soundlib fails to work with your Midi setup don't panic: download a
sysex manager from the net, MIDI-OX is a very reliable one that works in
any environment and it's free. You can still use it to put banks
together and store them as a sysex. For MIDI-OX pls RTFM (read the f..
manual).
Why should Soundlib fail, i.e. everything looks fine but while you are
probably able to receive sysex dumps your SD-1 reports a sysex receive
error when you trys to feed it with a ssex file? Because on fast systems
Midi transmission's too fast for the VFX to keep track. While Soundlib
doesn't provide an option to slow down sending the file MIDI-OX can be
configured to work properly: in the Sysex window you'll find another
menu sysex with an option Configure: in the 'low level output buffers'
section adjust the delay between buffers from 20 to 200 milli seconds.
You may increase buffer size to 512. That works for me.



3. Download single sounds and banks
You might have realized that there are sysex files with different file
sizes:
2k files contain a single sound. When you send this sysex to your SD-1
the sound will be written to the edit buffer from where you can save it
to a location of your choice.
63k files contain banks with 60 sounds. When you send this to the SD-1
it will overwrite all programs in INT. So be careful!

Ah, don't forget to enable your SD-1 to receive sysex: SYS-EX=ON in the
Midi Control Page.

Let me know if that helps.

Hans




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[mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von numaniod2005
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 12:51
An: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Getting sounds from my PC to my SD!?




--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "numaniod2005" 
<numaniod2005@y...> wrote:
> 
> HI all.
> 
> I downloaded 'The Lot'sound files  from the files section they are
> prg.syx files in my winrar progrmme. How do I get them from winrar to 
> my SD1,what do I have to do next?






 
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