Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "jstopa1955" <jstopa@...> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I use an Ensoniq VFX-SD as a sequencer and sound module and have written over 60 sequenced songs stored on 14 disks and would like to re-arrange them in a more logical order.  I can't seem to find a method to copy and paste a single song to another disk with out over writing an existing song.  Please help.
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> jimstopa
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It should go something like: load in 60 song bank from old disk.
Insert new disk.  Save each song and/or sequence as a 1-sequence /
song file.  Clear sequencer memory, so all are blank.  Load in each 
1-sequence file from disk in the order you want them; It seems like 
they fill in the first available blank spot?  Save the resulting 60 
song bank to disk.

If you use sequences within your songs, you may have to re-work what 
sequences are in the songs if you've moved the sequences to different 
slots, as I think they might be referenced by slot number, not name.

You can of course pull your 1-song files you're combining from 
different 60-song banks.  If you are using different sound sets with 
two or more songs you want to get into one "file", you'll have to 
manually handle getting a single sound set with all the sounds 
together, and use "replace program" to get the right sounds into the 
right songs. 

I've never done this, and was hoping someone else with experience 
would reply.  But that doesn't seem to have happened.  So there you 
have something that may help you.

If it were me, I'd write the new song order onto new, blank disks, 
saving my old ones in case I screw up and lose something!

--> Steve Wahl