Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Anyone in Nashville with SD-1 3.0 OS disk?


--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "John" <john.boyle03@...> 
wrote:
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> Sorry Gordon, I just read this and see you already know all about
> Rainer's site.
> 
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> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon JC 
Pearce
> MM3YEQ
> Sent: 27 January 2009 09:28
> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Sysex OS for SD-1
> 
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> 
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 00:07 +0000, david.rodgers wrote:
> > You mentioned FreeDOS, which got my attention. I've toyed with 
> > FreeDOS but that's not why I posted.
> > 
> > Since mid 2007 I began phasing out (all) Microsoft products with 
the 
> > operating system Ubuntu Linux 32-bit Desktop Edition.
> > 
> > Is there is a (specialized) Ensoniq/Ubuntu users group?
> 
> No, but I do use Ubuntu (among other Linux distros, and indeed other
> non-Microsoft OSes).
> 
> > If not, would like to correspond with other Ensoniq/Ubuntu users 
> > regarding software/hardware issues -and- interoperability between 
> > MIDI synthesizers used for recording, sound editing and other 
audio 
> > production projects in Ubuntu.
> 
> There's so many to choose from... I'm pretty heavily involved in the
> Linux Audio scene. In fact, a lot of my spare time is taken up with
> trying to get a bunch of audio plugins ready for their next release.
> 
> There's a bit of software called "EpsLin" which is surprisingly 
hard to
> find, which will read and write EPS disk images so you can use .ede
> and .efe files in Linux. I found it years ago on the 'net, but any 
site
> that ever had it is long gone and the original author has proved
> elusive. Since it's GPLed, we can redistribute it freely, so:
> http://www.gjcp. <http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/EpsLin_v1.31.c>
> net/~gordonjcp/EpsLin_v1.31.c
> 
> Go and redistribute it ;-) I made a couple of tweaks so it compiles
> cleanly on newish versions of GCC, although previously it only 
choked on
> a couple of odd line endings. Let this be a lesson to the closed-
source
> coders out there - if you disappear, your work very quickly becomes
> useless and forgotten!
> 
> Rainer Buchty's Ensoniq pages have a lot of goodies:
> http://www.buchty. <http://www.buchty.net/ensoniq/> net/ensoniq/
> 
> The SQ80 toolkit has proved useful for reading and writing Mirage
> floppies. All you do is modify it so that it only reads side 0 of 
the
> disk - not exactly hard to do. The real trick will be getting it to
> *format* the disks. I haven't cracked that one yet.
> 
> I wrote some MIDI sample transfer utilities for the Mirage and EPS, 
but
> they're nowhere near release quality yet - they're not even in 
public
> SVN. I doubt I'll have time to get back to them before the end of
> March, but I'll keep you all posted. For dumping patches on the VFX 
I
> just use amidi. I'm sure there used to be a nice GUI-based generic
> sysex manager, but I find command-line tools easier to work with 
anyway.
> 
> Finally, I'm working on a set of CC-licenced samples for the Mirage 
and
> EPS. Again, other pressing commitments (like finding a job) are 
going
> to keep these off the bench for a month or two, but you'll get to 
see
> them when they're nearer to ready.
> 
> Gordon
>