Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

""Pretty much any USB MIDI interface will work. If it comes with a driver
CD, don't buy it.""

My humble opinion?  Ignore that last piece of advice.

The Edirol (Roland) USB midi interface comes with driver software to 
make it talk to Windows in a much more efficient way than any default 
driver would AND, in the owners manual (you remember some woman telling 
you what one of those is.....:)  there are a number of Windows tweaks 
suggested that also improve the efficiency of the device out of sight.

And by "efficiency" what I'm talking about is "latency". The inherent 
delay that is ALWAYS present between the time your finger hits the key 
on your midi keyboard, and the computer (or external device) getting 
hold of that piece of information.  The object of the exercise in any 
midi system is to reduce this latency to imperceptible times. - WHICH 
THE ROLAND DOES PARTICULARLY WELL ON PC!!!!! - And it's very cheap!!

I use Logic Studio on a Mac with an Emagic midi interface - which has 
it's driver at the very heart of the Mac operating system, and 
perceptible latency is (by design) impossible.

On my Dell D800 (ironic) I had to work very hard to get a system that 
was acceptable. On a PC the machine is SOOOOO bogged down with Virus 
checkers and auto-this and auto-upgrade-that, that you have to fight 
hard to get it's attention!!  The Edirol does all that stuff well.

(oh and by the way, I used to own the company that imported Logic and 
Protools into Australia, I kinda know this stuff a bit  :)


cheers

Soundthinker