Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hey all.

I was an electronic music major in college and I did three of my 
major composition pieces on the VFX SD. I still have somwhere my 
disk of sounds. I have two questions:

1. Are disks that were formatted and have VFX SD data on them 
readble by the SD-1? The reson I ask is may consider purchasing an 
SD-1.

2. Would anyone be willing to lend a hand with a project I am 
working on? I would like to send you (the person who says they can 
help) my disk with all my sounds that I have programmed from scratch 
and the sequences I have that use those sounds. When the person 
receives the disk I would like to have them take each sequence and 
record it to a 16 bit 44.1 khz wav file one track at a time. There 
is a method to my madness: I would like to take the pieces I did 
while in school and re-mix them in surround sound.

Please let me know if anyone would have the time and knowledge to do 
something like this. I could pay a few bucks plus a Audio DVD when 
I'm done with my project and you will be fully credited in the liner 
notes.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike,

Ad 1. The SD-1 uses the same disk format as the SD. I use a SD-1 and a
SD in parallel myself

Ad 2. Whoever is willing to lend you a hand would like to know more
about the extent of work, how many tracks, lenghth,...

More important: before sending your disk away you might want to make a
copy of it.
For a good way to do so have a look in the file section of the group.
You'll find a toolset there that lets you read out your floppies and
either copy them or store them to disk. What I'm saying is you could
send the disk by email whats much more secure. You'll also be able to
determine if there are corrupted sectors on your floppy and which sounds
or sequences are affected. Could save you some surprises...

Hans

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Von: blind_monkey_phil [mailto:blindmonkeyphil@...] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 01:24
An: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] VFX SD Help




Hey all.

I was an electronic music major in college and I did three of my 
major composition pieces on the VFX SD. I still have somwhere my 
disk of sounds. I have two questions:

1. Are disks that were formatted and have VFX SD data on them 
readble by the SD-1? The reson I ask is may consider purchasing an 
SD-1.

2. Would anyone be willing to lend a hand with a project I am 
working on? I would like to send you (the person who says they can 
help) my disk with all my sounds that I have programmed from scratch 
and the sequences I have that use those sounds. When the person 
receives the disk I would like to have them take each sequence and 
record it to a 16 bit 44.1 khz wav file one track at a time. There 
is a method to my madness: I would like to take the pieces I did 
while in school and re-mix them in surround sound.

Please let me know if anyone would have the time and knowledge to do 
something like this. I could pay a few bucks plus a Audio DVD when 
I'm done with my project and you will be fully credited in the liner 
notes.

Thanks,
Mike 






 
Yahoo! Groups Links

Here's the link:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/files/Tools/
Dowmload vfxtools.zip
There's a readme included describing the handling in all detail.

Hans

BTW
Sorry for all the DOS stuff I got to refer to. Unfortunately Ensoniq
have not thought of future developments in computer operating systems
that make it so difficult to deal with non standard disk formats like
Ensoniq's....

-----Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:21:38 +0100
Subject: Re: AW: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] VFX SD Help
From: River of Life <riveroflifecbs@...>
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com

At 02:54 AM 2/11/2005, Hans Artmann wrote:

>Mike,
>For a good way to do so have a look in the file section of the group.
>You'll find a toolset there that lets you read out your floppies and
>either copy them or store them to disk.
>
>Hans
>

Where do I find the utility to copy my SD-1 disks to PC and then make
backup copies?



Your Servant in Christ,

Vince Perna
The River Of Life
Discount Christian Bookstore
http://www.riveroflifecbs.com

Hi Hans,

Thank you for the link, but when I try to download it, the link cannot be 
found.

Vince

At 09:49 AM 2/11/2005, you wrote:

>Here's the link:
><http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/files/Tools/>http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/files/Tools/
>Dowmload vfxtools.zip
>There's a readme included describing the handling in all detail.
>
>Hans
>
>BTW
>Sorry for all the DOS stuff I got to refer to. Unfortunately Ensoniq
>have not thought of future developments in computer operating systems
>that make it so difficult to deal with non standard disk formats like
>Ensoniq's....
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:21:38 +0100
>Subject: Re: AW: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] VFX SD Help
>From: River of Life <riveroflifecbs@...>
>To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
>
>At 02:54 AM 2/11/2005, Hans Artmann wrote:
>
> >Mike,
> >For a good way to do so have a look in the file section of the group.
> >You'll find a toolset there that lets you read out your floppies and
> >either copy them or store them to disk.
> >
> >Hans
> >
>
>Where do I find the utility to copy my SD-1 disks to PC and then make
>backup copies?
>
>
>
>Your Servant in Christ,
>
>Vince Perna
>The River Of Life
>Discount Christian Bookstore
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>
>
>
>
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Thanks to everybody who replied. Hans, thanks for pointing me to the 
files section...
Benny, thanks for the offer I'll definitely be in contact when I 
find out if my disk is readable or not.

Thanks,
Mike

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "blind_monkey_phil" 
<blindmonkeyphil@y...> wrote:
> 
> Hey all.
> 
> I was an electronic music major in college and I did three of my 
> major composition pieces on the VFX SD. I still have somwhere my 
> disk of sounds. I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Are disks that were formatted and have VFX SD data on them 
> readble by the SD-1? The reson I ask is may consider purchasing an 
> SD-1.
> 
> 2. Would anyone be willing to lend a hand with a project I am 
> working on? I would like to send you (the person who says they can 
> help) my disk with all my sounds that I have programmed from 
scratch 
> and the sequences I have that use those sounds. When the person 
> receives the disk I would like to have them take each sequence and 
> record it to a 16 bit 44.1 khz wav file one track at a time. There 
> is a method to my madness: I would like to take the pieces I did 
> while in school and re-mix them in surround sound.
> 
> Please let me know if anyone would have the time and knowledge to 
do 
> something like this. I could pay a few bucks plus a Audio DVD when 
> I'm done with my project and you will be fully credited in the 
liner 

> notes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike