Hello Harry. Yeh the guy at Route 66 is strait up. In fact I have gotten a floppy drive from him. I love the people who have made it their business to support this old equipment.� I have a TS 10 now and use it most of the time because it has more voices of polyphony, but I still use the VFXsd a lot on account of those sweet sounds. Composing on the sequencer in these things is one of the greatest pleasures, and sources of joy I have had in my life, and I have had a very cushy life.
I have this fantasy that I will get rich and then I will buy Ensoniq from EMU and start producing more VFXsds, and TS10s, only with all of the obvious limitations resolved. So if you hear that John Brusseau has just bught Ensoniq from Emu sometime in the future you will know that my fantasy has become a reality.
I believe the whole computerized generation is coming to a point where they are realizing that having more and more options is only of value to the extent these options can be creatively used. On the Ensoniq VFXsd the options have been laid out so ingeniously that for the most part they sing to the user with that sweet voice of the human spirit bidding our plodding task-oriented souls to lay down their practical burdens and dance and sing and write�song after wonderful song.
There is nothing like them that I have found!
From: Harry Ebbeson III
Reply-To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Digest Number 768
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:48:02 -0800 (PST)
Hello all,
� Just another happy Ensoniq user here.� I have an
SQ-2 32-Voice (since new), and have had my VFX-SD
since October 2004 (looked for over 10 years for the
right one).�� I also have another one coming and I
hope it gets here next week.�
� The question is that with the one I currently have,
the drive is bad and has been since I bought it (got
it for $249 at a pawn shop).� I know that there is a
site (Route 66 Studio, or something like it), that
displays that they still have the old parts for these
things.� Has anyone recently queried them or got a
drive from them?� If so, how was the experience in
dealing with them?
� I just want to know a little bit before going out
there and getting a drive to put in.
� It is weird though: the VFX has been my 'holy grail'
for many years and I went without one for so long, and
now I have two of them.� I am lucky and blessed
indeed.� They are still so musical.
� By the way, is there a way to transfer the Sequencer
program from one to another using the Sys-Ex feature,
or even the Card feature? The one with the bad drive
does not have the sequencer loaded, so I am only using
1/3 of the unit's true potential.
Thank you,
Harry Ebbeson III
Ebbeson Management Group
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