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Just repaired the SD-1 battery which was standing straight up

Just repaired the SD-1 battery which was standing straight up

2017-05-02 by vocedave2002@...

Hi Folks,


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.


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?


Thanks in advance for your advice.


Best,


/Dave

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?
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> On May 2, 2017, at 1:20 PM, vocedave2002@... [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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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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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Just repaired the SD-1 battery which was standing straight up

2017-05-02 by Christian Brunschen

I think a reset will copy one of the ROM banks to the INT one.

Can you write to floppy disks? The SD-1 OS floppies, I think, contain the sounds as well; and images of those are available.

I'm also attaching SYSEX files for various sounds form the SD-1. But note that you have to enable receiving of SYSEX messages to use them:
  • Go to the MIDI Control page by pressing the MIDI Control button
  • Press MIDI Control again to go to the second sub-page
  • On this page, there's an entry SYS-EX=ON or OFF
  • make sure that it says SYS-EX=ON in order to make your SD-1 accept incoming SYSEX messages such as the ones included below.
Best wishes,

// Christian


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On 2 May 2017 at 20:29, STEPHEN PRATT alto.sax@... [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


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

On May 2, 2017, at 1:20 PM, vocedave2002@yahoo.com [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Hi Folks,


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.


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?


Thanks in advance for your advice.


Best,


/Dave







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

2017-05-03 by Christian Brunschen

Glad you're back up and running, and happy to help!

I was more thinking, do you have a computer with a floppy drive that you could use to write new floppies for your SD-1? Because in that case, you can create fresh floppies with the sequencer OS etc, since the disk images are available. I.e., you could replace (some of) your corrupted floppies with working ones. That would also give you back the sequencer in your SD-1, which is after all quite useful.

Or, if you're not really using floppies any more and would prefer to use something perhaps a bit more future-proof, you could replace the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator - either an HxC Emulator that uses SD cards, or a Gotek Emulator with HxC firmware that uses USB thumb drives . Each stores floppy images on their respective medium (SD card or USB thumb drive respectively). Those floppy images can also be accessed if you connect the medium to your computer; that's how you would get images of the OS floppy into place, for example.

This would allow you to have literally hundreds of virtual floppies, including ones that are copies of the factory one(s), only a few button presses away and no longer needing the deteriorating actual floppies; and you could much more easily and quickly make or restore backup copies of everything you need.

Best wishes,

// Christian

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On 3 May 2017 at 13:53, vocedave2002@... [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Hi Christian,

Thanks for this. It did the trick. I'm back up and running.

Not sure the floppy still works on this unit. In any case my original disks seem to be corrupt.

Best,

/Dave



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