Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi Frank,

That's a great offer but I'm not sure exactly what I'd
be getting you into. :-0  As a home hobbyist, I (how
can I put this delicately)...I was "not meticulous in
my archiving habits" so I have multiple songs in files
and things scattered all over the place on disks.

Not long after I caused my SD-1s demise, I purchased
the software from Giebler that is supposed to read
disks and turn them into midi files.  It does turn the
old files into midi files.  But the voicings are all
nutso

Of course many of the drum kit maps are not standard,
and it's pure guesswork to assign voices.  And quite
frankly I miss the sounds that were in the SD-1.  :-(

What I'd love is a conversion program that speaks SD-1
well enough that it could make General Midi standard
guesses as to voicings.  Maybe someone's done that
since, but to my knowledge it does not exist.  It's
been a couple years since I did any serious attempts
to recover songs from the SD 1 files, and I got bogged
down in the voicing thing.  

I was using a virtual synth on the computer and (for
example) the piano tracks were pretty easy to identify
and the drum tracks by their repetitive nature were
too, but all the accent voices that were added here
and there and the short overdub tracks (a measure here
and there) made it frustrating to work an arrangment
out.

(just a note) The el-cheapo Ensoniq sound cards that
were out a few years ago have a pretty decent synth on
them.

I'll think about it.

Dave


--- Frank Crawford <fmc@...> wrote:

> dave.............i have 3 sd1-32 boards.   if your
> stuff is on a floppy, i
> could recover it and convert it to midi.
> 
> frank crawford
> The Franklin Studio
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Fowler" <vidmic@...>
> To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Original Owners -
> Give A Shout!
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dave here.  Bought my SD-1 32 voice in Lincoln
> > Nebraska from a music store.  Paid about 2600.  It
> > worked fine till I killed it about a year ago.  Am
> > still looking for an optimistic repairman.
> >
> > Loved it.  Used it mainly at home for church
> related
> > music.
> >
> > If I could have it fixed even for a week or two I
> > could recover a ton of work.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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