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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: .SYX on Floppy?

2012-07-31 by Daniel Forró

Well explained, I just tried to say the same :-)

Daniel Forro

On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:31 PM, jammie wrote:

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>
> it will work
>
> just use a editor as long as you set up the usb midi device properly
>
> and have the editor set to the correct channels of the synth there  
> should be no problem dumping single patches or banks to the vfx-sd
>
> there has never been a program that converts sysex to floppy disk  
> format its to difficult in transfer routines as both are totally  
> different formats
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> its the same for any synth
>
> ones midi protocol language and the other is processor and floppy  
> control language of the instrument os
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> and seeing as every os is totally different and every ones disk  
> format is different and how they impliment the data to disk is  
> different to every machine to do a conversion software would be a  
> coders nightmare thats why it has never been done and never will
>
> when its easy just to dumpthe sysex to the synth
>

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