Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

My SYSEX woes continue.  I tried the Alesis tool recommended, with 
the same errors resulting.  (The Emagic ones I was able to find were 
Macintosh-based, and I don't have a Mac.)  I also dragged my VFX 
over near enough to my home office desktop PC to hook it up to the 
soundcard MIDI/Joystick port.  Soundlib does work on that PC and I 
was able to successfully transfer a bank with that combination.  
Unfortunately, I cannot use my office PC long-term for this task.

So, in summary, I can't get Soundlib working on my laptop because it 
doesn't recognize any MIDI device drivers running there.  Every 
other tool I use on my laptop recognizes my Yamaha USB MIDI 
interface, but fails to send and receive the SYSEX correctly.

Does anyone have a Win 98 PC & Soundlib working with a USB MIDI 
interface of any sort???

Also, isnt' SYSEX just a byte stream with a little protocol around 
it?  Why would so many tools fail to send SYSEX dumps to my VFX 
correctly?  (Or is the VFX that particular about SYSEX formatting?)

Thanks again,

Will



--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "supergidi" <supergisi@g...> 
wrote:
> Have you ever tested Emagic SoundDiver? I use it with my VFX-SD 
and 
> it works really good. Emagic offers an older version for free 
> download as far as I know.
> Gisi
> 
> --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "weidmanconsulting" 
> <weidmanconsulting@y...> wrote:
> > I had tried SoundLib in the past, but the program was unable to 
> > detect my USB MIDI interface.  All of the other programs I have 
> > tried do recognize it, so I gave up on SoundLib.
> > 
> > I will try the Alesis product and see if the results are 
> different.  
> > Since I tried SYSEX files both from the files area of this forum 
as 
> > well as new ones generated by my VFX, it doesn't seem like the 
data 
> > formatting is the issue.  I had asked in a previous post if 
there 
> > were any SYSEX compatibility issues between dumps from the 
various 
> > flavors of VFX (thinking that a VFX-SD dump to my VFX wouldn't 
> > work), but learned that there were not issues with this.
> > 
> > The USB interface is new (Yamaha) and it seems to work fine with 
> > sequencers etc. that I have tried with my VFX.
> > 
> > --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Roi de la plage 
> > <roidelaplage@y...> wrote:
> > > Yes, try another SysEx dumper. FreeLoader from Alesis
> > > is ultra-simple but does its job !
> > > 
> > > If the dump does not work with FreeLoader also, check
> > > out the SysEx file or change your MIDI cable.
> > > I believe that many members could send you a "clean"
> > > SysEx file for testing.
> > > 
> > > Fred
> > > 
> > >  --- Mick Roeg <roegster@y...> a écrit : > Dude
> > > >   Quit playing with toys and get the SOUND
> > > > LIBRARIAN.
> > > > It uploads real good. I've never had a problem and I
> > > > had to edit for weeks till I got my VFX tweeked the
> > > > way I wanted it.
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.thedx7.co.uk/index.html
> > > > 
> > > > for the Sound Lib. It's a DX7 site but the librarian
> > > > works on lots of keyboards.
> > > > Then go here:
> > > > 
> > > > http://neopatch.hypermart.net/
> > > > 
> > > > to find some real cool patches. All instructions are
> > > > in the help files and it really really works! 
> > > > Roegster
> > > > 
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