Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

At 04:26 PM 3/21/01, you wrote:
>Early SD1's (the 21-voice version) had the 25,000 note sequencer on board 
>with an upgrade available to 75,000 notes.  The later 32-voice SD1's came 
>with the 75,000 note sequencer standard.  At a lower price.  (Sorry.  It's 
>the nit-picker in me escaping the leash.  I feel better now.....)


Afaik, the SD1-24's were actually rebadged VFX-SD II's (only a few made it 
to market with that name, from what I remember). Probably the PCB ribbon 
cable problem was fixed during the rebadge too (I'm not sure if the VFX-SD 
II suffered the problem or not)


Anyway, you are correct, I was just simplifying, since the SD1 is probably 
most visible in its SD1-32 configuration :) Though the SD1 manual DOES 
refer to the sequencer as 25,000 notes unexpanded :)

Btw, regarding the interchangability, thats true, though remember that any 
SD1-32 patch that uses the SD1 or VFX-SD specific voices won't be fully 
compatible on a plain VFX (or on a VFX-SD if you use the SD1 voices). Afaik 
though it will load, it will just be missing some voices...

(Yes, I have the SD1 too :)