Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

> I am new to the group, so bear with me on these (newbie)
> questions. I am using Calkwalk to control my keyboard via midi and
> have run into some road blocks.
> 
> I am trying to get access to all of the patches in each bank (RAM,
> ROM and Cartridge).  I found a reference in the manual that talks
> about sending out program changes.  How do I do this within If
> anyone is familiar with this detail, I would appreciate the advice.

You have to send one program change after the other.  To get cakewalk
to do this, you may have to put a program change into the track,
rather than just set the track to a particular value.

> Calkwalk also has a bank parameter that can be set, although I don't
> seem to see any affect with the keyboard. Any thoughts on this one?

The bank select message was added to the MIDI standards after the VFX
was produced; it is arguably a better solution to the problem of
selecting more than 128 sounds, but I'm sure not all sequencing
software would have supported it at the time the VFX was released.  I
believe the next Ensoniq family, the TS series, started to use the
bank select parameter instead of multiple program change messages.

Not sure if this'll be any help, but maybe it'll point you in the
right direction.

--> Steve