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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Just repaired the SD-1 battery which was standing straight up

2017-05-02 by STEPHEN PRATT

Shouldn’t a factory reset restore the RAM sounds as well?

> On May 2, 2017, at 1:20 PM, vocedave2002@... [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> Recently pulled out the SD-1 only to find it had lost all the RAM sounds.  It turns out the the battery tab on the negative side had broken from touring over the years.
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> My disks have been corrupt for about a decade.  I was able to restore the factory RAM (RM12) at one time from SYSEX.  Someone was nice enough to email me the original sounds as a SYSEX file?  Does anyone know if that file is called sd1_keys1_60.syx?  I've tried reloading it to no avail.  Do I need to unlock the RAM somehow?
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> Thanks in advance for your advice.
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> Best,
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> /Dave
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