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Re: PC, EDE & Backups

2010-03-12 by somethingkillingyou

this is simply pointless.

record every midi output channel in your sequencer. 

that's it.

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Joe McMahon <joe.mcmahon@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Alfons Martinez <
> alfons-martinez@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >  Hello, Joe:
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe I didn't understand you well but, wouldn't you prefer to make backups
> > of the VFX patches, presets and sequences in SYSEX files, and forget the
> > floppy disks?
> >
> I have actually - I've transferred everything over to my Mac, and I've got
> backups now -- but I'd really like to (for instance) be able to convert my
> sequences into SMFs (the VFX won't last forever, and I don't want the
> sequences to be plain old lost). Without a machine that can run the Giebler
> software successfully, I'm dependent on having some kind of a VFX around -
> not that I plan to get rid of it, but things wear out.
>

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