You may also access the archive by filenames directly.
To help you sort out all your new patches, be sure to pick up a copy of vfxlib, Christophe Le Brasseur's <brasseur@stna7.stna.dgac.fr> Windows-based librarian for VFX patches.
The patches that are available have all been processed with GNU zip and uuencode. Please note that GNU zip is not compatible with PKZIP or any of the other PC-based zip archive programs. If you have a PC, you can download a copy of GNU zip from the Ensoniq EPS MSDOS utilities archive at <http://oak.oakland.edu/oak/eps/utilsmsdos.html>. If you know where to get GNU zip for other personal computer platforms, let me know and I will add a link for them as well.
To reconstruct the original program from the archive files, you should first remove everything before the `begin' line and after the `end' line, and then run uudecode on the file. This will create a file called `something.syx.gz', which you will have to decompress using GNU zip. If everything worked correctly, you should be left with a file called `something.syx', which should be either 1067 bytes long if the file contains a single patch, or 63607 bytes long if it contains a bank of 60 patches. This file is a verbatim transcription of the MIDI data stream, which is sometimes called MIDIEX format. You need to get this file to a computer with a MIDI interface, and transfer it to your synth using your favorite MIDI Sysex program. Garth Hjelte wrote a summary of how to download patches from the internet for issues 122 and 123 of the Transoniq Hacker. Please review this article if you are unsure of how to use patches from this archive.
Here is the contents of the patch archive:
We have also archived the patches that are shipped with the various members of the VFX family. All of these files are 60-bank dumps that have been compressed using GNU zip and then uuencoded. Thanks to Joe McMahon and Christophe Le Brasseur for uploading the banks!