Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi all,

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I posted the original link to this site some months ago and have since
bought one of these units.  Although the initial unit didn't work and
communication with the company was difficult, I eventually managed to
get a replacement which works reasonably well.

 

Here's what I've found:

 

1)       Fitting the unit was relatively easy as it is piggy-backs to
the FDD power supply and data lines.  Be careful to ensure that you cut
and isolate the white 5v cable of the FDD power supply line prior to
installation or you will blow the device.

2)       When putting a disk in and copying particular banks, initial
banks copy fine but subsequent banks throw an error.  The solution was
to use the diskcopy function and copy entire disk to the formatted
"virtual disk" SD card bank location.

3)       Occasionally on initially loading a bank of sequences the sound
locations are empty.  This has always corrected with a re-load.

4)       Speed: Although I haven't actually critically compared the
difference between loading from diskette -v- loading from SD card, there
doesn't seem to be a significant difference.  I would have thought as no
moving parts were required to perform the actual read from the SD media
it would have sped the process.  I believe that as the SD card is read
via the FDD interface that the timing of the interface is slowing the
data transfer. 

 

I would have thought that a slightly easier and possibly better solution
would have been to have the device talk directly to or replace the SD1's
internal memory. 

 

All of that said, this device lets you store numerous disks worth of
data to a single device located in the unit.  These "virtual disks" are
easily accessed by a set of Up and Down buttons and an LED which plug
into a flat cable which comes out of the back of the chassis - No
cutting or modification required.  If anything goes wrong the FDD is
still there for emergencies.

 

Hope this helps.    

 

Cheers,

 

John

  

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe McMahon
Sent: 26 August 2007 22:49
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Internal extra soundmemory??

 

 

On 8/26/07, surfermarketing <surfermarketing@
<mailto:surfermarketing@...> yahoo.com> wrote:

Richard
Just a thought from someone not tech savy.
Last year I stumbled on a site that used a flash memory card tied to
the floppy connector.

 

If I wasn't so leery of sending money to people I've never heard of in
the Ukraine I'd buy one in a minute. I've started storing all my work on
the laptop where it's easy to back up, but being tied to floppies to
reload the OS still makes me nervous. Someday either I'm going to lose
the drive or my OS disks (and I remember floppy drive failures scarring
up disks). 

 

Has anyone heard of anyone who has purchased one of these?

 

 --- Joe M.