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Re: Searching for specific soundbanks

2008-11-08 by morten_karm

Problem is that I no longer own the KNP floppy disk (I returned it to 
Steve in the past).

That's why I was rather searching now for a sysex version

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "Hans Artmann" <hans-
artmann@...> wrote:
>
> Disk error on the SD is not very specific. Sometimes such disks can 
partly
> or even wholly recovered using the right SW environment. 
> I've managed to rescue a disk for someone a while ago. You can also 
try to
> educate yourself how it could be done. I've posted all
> my tools to the file section.
>  
> Let me know if you need any help
>  
> Hans
>  
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-
SD@yahoogroups.com]
> Im Auftrag von morten_karm
> Gesendet: Samstag, 8. November 2008 16:15
> An: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Searching for specific soundbanks
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'mn still searching for the following VFX soundbanks:
> 
> - Valhala (It seems to me that they produced two different volumes)
> 
> - Sound Source Unlimited SSI-V102 "Super Stage & Studio"
> I wrote to Bob Grey - who is selling now SSU products - an he only 
> owns a VFX-SD floppy disk version that he e-mailed to me with a 
> little program which permits to store it on a VFX-SD formatted 
disk. 
> As I own a VFX non SD model (without internal floppy disk driver), 
I 
> sent it to a friend of mine who is working with a SD model, but he 
> didn't succeed in opening this file
> 
> - KidNepro: Steve Proto (KNP's manager) physically owns one VFX-SD 
> floppy disk (the last one!) with this soundbank stored on it. He 
> kindly sent it to me a few years ago in such a way I convert it for 
> him in a sysex format. But when my friend tried to open it on his 
VFX-
> SD, a "disk error" message gave it impossible
> 
> So, if someone here has the possibility to make a sysex (*.syx), a 
> SMF (*.mid), a SoundQuest (*.Pgb) or a SoundDiver (*.lib) version 
of 
> it, it would be great!
>

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