Sounds are encoded very simply in a .SYX fie; they contain a short header, then a nybble-encoded dump of the sound data as it is stored in memory and indeed as it is stored on floppy; and a brief trailer. So unpacking them should be doable. The details are in the VFX-SD Musicians Manual, http://soundprogramming.net/manuals/Ensoniq_VFX-SD_Manual.pdf in Appendix A.
Once the .SYX files have been unpacked to 'raw' sound program files, they need to be put on a floppy.
To access the floppies themselves, to read or write the bare contents of a floppy, there is OmniFlop:
Together these should allow full access to read and I think write to Ensoniq-formatted floppies, including VFX-SD ones. So all in all it should be possible to take the .SYX files and put them onto a floppy.
Best wishes,
// Christian Brunschen
On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Daniel Forró wrote:
Jammie,SMF is used not only for songs, of course also for SysEx memory bulk dump... It differs from SYX format just in small details in header.DanielOn Aug 1, 2012, at 1:28 AM, jammie wrote:it only does midi song data not sysex dataas i have the soft on a win98 pc and it needs to use the msdos----- Original Message -----From: Daniel ForróSent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:57 PMSubject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] .SYX on Floppy?This software works with SMF, not SysEx format, and it's MS-DOS
software.
Daniel Forro
On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:31 PM, <tomlinson6050@...> <tomlinson6050@...
> wrote:
>
> Hi. Go to www.giebler.com
> He sells software that can write sysex data on disks with the
> correct Ensoniq format.
> Only problem is you will need an older computer running Windows 95
> or 98.
> Bill