Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Interesting. But if it's not so much about having thousands of sounds 
available in real time you might remember this page:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
which solves the unfamous 'my floppy drive died and I cannot find a 
Shugart drive' problem and provides plenty space for sounds.

Hans

Am 30.10.2016 14:15, schrieb Christian Brunschen christian@... 
[Ensoniq-VFX-SD]:
> A writable multi-cartridge for a VFX would require an EEPROM 
> compatible with but significantly larger than the 28C256, and I 
> haven't had a huge amount of luck finding any that are more than 1 
> Mbit (such as the Atmel AT28C010) which would correspond to 4 plain 
> cartridges - and thus not a huge advantage over 4 separate cartridges. 
> With a buffering SRAM (that the VFX reads&writes) and a 
> microcontroller that shuffles the data to&from a much larger Flash 
> memory, things are not limited by existing EEPROM sizes, and that also 
> allows using serial flash memory chips that are quite compact.\u200b Or it 
> would allow creating a cartridge with an ESP microcontroller that 
> would allow WiFi access to the cartridge (which would be rather cool 
> actually, but even more over-the-top) :)
>
> // Christian
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