Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Rue" <danrue@...> wrote:
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> I think you should be able to use a Universal Librarian to arrange these things, if you're hooked up to a computer.
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> Otherwise, the last reply would be the way to go.  Another approach, and one that personally use is to just save every song as '60 songs w/programs.'  It's not very efficient, but it's really easy, and I always have the program sounds loaded.
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> --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "_steve_31" <steve@> wrote:
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> > --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "jstopa1955" <jstopa@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > jimstopa
> > >
> > 
> > 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
> >
>

Steve,

Thanks for the insite.  I will try that method tonight and let you know if it works.  I don't want to use a single disk for each song because, LIVE, it takes a time to relaod a song from a disk.  I would like to have at lease 5 songs on a disk to keep the flow of the night going.  Take a look at our web site and listen to the sequences I wrote and use live on the road.  

www.seequenceband.com

Thanks,

jimstopa