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Is there such a thing? I am looking for sys ex charts for Ensoniq VFX and Ensoniq SQ 80. Both old 1980s 1990s synths. I have a copy of Steve de Furia The Midi System Exclusive Book 1987. It has a chart for Ensoniq ESQ1 but i am wondering why there isn't a full repository online for these charts anywhere. Any advice about where to get charts from - they are not always in user manuals. I'm trying to analyse the preset sys ex dumps and compare them with Arturia SQ80 V patches as trying to get the Arturia synth to replicate some old VFX patch dumps.
Sorry if posting in the wrong place I am new on this forum.
Thanks in hopes
Posted : 21/10/2023 1:47 pm
Erika Huggard reacted
There isn't one that I am aware of.
Your best bet is to go to the manufacturers' websites and see if they make the device User Guide available.
Posted : 22/10/2023 5:50 am
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Thanks for your response.
Ah well Ensoniq is no more. They were absorbed in 1998 by Emu/Creative - and I don't know whether the Emu part of that company is still alive.
Which begs a wider question regarding the preservation of midi related data and documentation. Seems strange that the most informative books and articles on MIDi are all from the 1980s. And sadly some of those authors have passed on - i was shocked to discover that Martin Russ who wrote for UK Sound on Sound magazine for years passed earlier this year.
So are there any initiatives to archive this sort of documentation? I guess not. And yet surely Long live Midi whether 1.0 or 2.0 is surely helped if a broad range of tech documentation is preserved centrally.
Thanks
Posted : 22/10/2023 6:36 am
Try this: https://github.com/jazz-soft/JZZ-midi-Gear
And please feel free to update it if you have some missing data.
Posted : 22/10/2023 10:03 am
You may be able to find archived versions of the old websites on archive.org Sometimes I find things there that have long since left the "normal" Internet
Posted : 22/10/2023 3:25 pm
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Thanks - good suggestions 😀
Posted : 23/10/2023 1:24 am
