Changing Virus Rams/Roms

[techno_7]

Is it possibe?

I mean like an extension card?

[Panopticon]

For what purpose? Sounds like you're thinking in ROMpler territory...

[techno_7]

Maybe. This is my first vintage synth so please forgive me for my stupid newbie questions

[jasedee]

Originally Posted by techno_7

Maybe. This is my first vintage synth so please forgive me for my stupid newbie questions

Vintage?

[techno_7]

Damn.

Doesnt vintage mean physical?

[Hollowcell]

There's not really any need for plug-in ROMs, when it's easy to install new banks from standard midi sysex. Expansion cards are usually for machines that need wave data.

[AlexHall74]

As per dictionary.com:

2 entries found for vintage.
vin?tage ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vntj)
n.
The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

The harvesting of a grape crop.
The initial stages of winemaking.

Informal.
A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.

A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.

Length of existence; age.

adj.
Of or relating to a vintage.
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
Old or outmoded.

Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
Of the most distinctive: ?Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence? (Thomas Oliphant).

I bolded/italicized the portions of the definition that could be specific to the Virus synth.

Maybe you meant "hardware" or "virtual analog" synth?

[AlexHall74]

HC wrote:
There's not really any need for plug-in ROMs, when it's easy to install new banks from standard midi sysex. Expansion cards are usually for machines that need wave data.

OK, here is where I have a question.

I have often wondered as to what the compatibility of foreign synth patches with Virii were.

For instance, several synths can create patches via MIDI Sysex, right?

So, if someone creates a cool set of banks on an "ABC123" synth and then dumps it into MIDI Sysex, can I load it into my Virus C?

AND

If it can load will I have the same power over those presets via the multitude of knobs, FX, filters, OSC, etc. as I do on "native" Virus patches?

Oh pleeeeeeease say yes! 8O

[Tomer=Trance]

in thory the patch midi data is just parameter data and "instructions" to this parameters.

how about trying and let us know

[Onkel Dunkel]

I don?t think it will work. Some parameters may mean one thing in the Virus and another in the "ABC123" synth.