Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi VFX folks,

Do you sometimes have problems to remember what you have changed in a
program or that you
would like to know if two programs with different names are in fact
identical? Then, as a goodie,
I could offer you a tool I've written in perl and therefore named perlyVFX.
Let me know if you are interested.
I would then upload it to the group file server for free download.

Just a little warning: it's a command-line tool without any graphical user
interface and requires the installation of a perl interpreter (which is
available on the web also
for free). However, if you can program a VFX you should be able to handle
this too.

Regards,
Hans

perlyVFX is a bundle of perl scripts to deal with VFX sysex files.
It provides basic functions to analyze the contents of sysex
files for both single programs and banks and to extract information like
program names, parameters, waves used, etc.
The output are text files in CSV format which can easily be imported
into databases or spread sheet programs like MS Access and Excel.

Patches can be compared and all differences will be documented in a
text file.
This gives you the chance to decide if e.g. programs with he same name
are really equivalent. If not you can see where they are different.
Also identical programs with different names can be detected.

perlyVFX is not an archive. I use the well known programs SOUNDLIB and
VFXLIB to dump, store, and rearrange my sysex files.

The package is supplemented by an MS Access database which makes it easy
to sort, filter, and view information on your patches. You can e.g. see
for each program which wave forms are used in any combination of the
patch select switches.

On Saturday, Jul 5, 2003, at 20:19 Europe/London, 
hans-artmann@... wrote:

> Hi VFX folks,
>
> Do you sometimes have problems to remember what you have changed in a
> program or that you
> would like to know if two programs with different names are in fact
> identical? Then, as a goodie,
> I could offer you a tool I've written in perl and therefore named 
> perlyVFX.
> Let me know if you are interested.
> I would then upload it to the group file server for free download.

It sounds great - I am *definitely* interested! Please, do release it! 
:)

Best wishes,

// Christian Brunschen