Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:55:56AM -0000, Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
> Rich, I don't know about anyone else, but I have never been able to 
> figure out how send a a bank change from a VFX.
> > I also wondered about bank changes, if someone knows how to do this 
> > let us know, 

The VFX family was created before the bank select midi message was
standardized.  There is certainly no direct way to send a bank select
message.

I belive the bank select message is two Continuous Controller
messages, CC #0 <MSB> CC #32 <LSB>.  There is a VFX feature, I think
it's called X-ctrl, to be able to deal with an unusual CC#.  But I
can't even remember if it deals with send or receive.  Even if you
could send one CC message with it, I don't think you'd be able to get
it to send both CC #0 and CC#32.

I believe the TS-10 (next Ensoniq generation after the VFX and SD-1
series) got bank select messages.

To control a JV-1080, which has multiple banks, I use the method Dan
mentioned of placing all patches you want in one bank (the user
writable bank in my case).

--> Steve

The VFX (or SD1) does NOT send CC0, so you cannot do a bank change.

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--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, gregconrad@j... wrote:
> 
> The VFX (or SD1) does NOT send CC0, so you cannot do a bank change.
> 
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Thanks for the quick answer, I will put this question in the 
database sometime unless someone has the time now, thanks

I pulled out my VFX SD manual to elaborate on my earlier response.
It will transmit and recognize the following control changes-
1-95
1 Mod wheel
4 Foot
7 Volume
10 Pan
70 Momentary Patch Select
71 Timbre Parameter
72 Release Parameter
100 Registered parameter select
101 Registered parameter select

As you can see, CC#0 is absent.
Greg

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