Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

And... another original owner of a VFX-SDII here.  I
bought it in 1990, a couple of years after I had
bought an original EPS.  Those two keyboards (and a
tiny toy Casio that I got in 1986) have been all I've
needed for ~20 years.  I'm still on the original
battery, and haven't done the soldering thing yet.  

It's great to have a resource like this group.

--- JDM Zangari <zanjdm30@...> wrote:

> Yet another "original owner" of an SD-1/32. My first
> synth. Picked it up when I was asked to fill in for
> a "missing" keyboard player (fifteen or so years
> ago). Went thru a 3 board three module stage rig,
> korgs, kurzweils, yamahas, voce, Roland GR-30 (for
> my chapman stick),  and my SD-1 is STILL the
> mainstay of my rig. Studio I use a Korg
> SG-1(Kurzweil module), TS 10  and an SD-1, Live I
> use a Yamaha, TS 12 and an SD-1. I even shelved my
> Voce' Micro B II. The SD's are middle rack, used on
> almost every song. I'll use them until one of us
> dies, hopefully me first.
> 
> Only regret, why no 76 or 88 weighted version. The
> TS-12 pales in comparison. I have midi-ed to a
> weighted board, just not the same. 
> 
> Just bought two batteries last week, don't intent to
> use 'em till I need to though. Life expectancy of
> batteries (told when I bought the board) was three
> to five years. 
> 
> CaunaJoe
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: swomp_rabbit 
>   To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:59 AM
>   Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Original Owners - Give A
> Shout!
> 
> 
>   I am curious as to how many original VFX and/or
> SD-1 owners are in 
>   this group???
> 
>   I am an original owner having purchased my VFX-SD
> in 1989 and my SD-
>   1 in 1992. Both units are still in excellent
> condition and working 
>   perfectly.
> 
>   Actually, I originally purchased a VFX in May of
> 1989 for $1795. In 
>   December of that year that same music store (Art's
> Music in 
>   Montgomery, Alabama) received their first VFX-SD
> and I just had to 
>   have it. They allowed me to trade in my VFX and
> allowed me $1444 on 
>   a trade in for the VFX-SD which sold for $2295. In
> hind-sight, I 
>   think I came out way on top in that deal.
> 
>   I purchased the SD-1 in 1992. I don't have a
> receipt showing 
>   my `total' cost of the SD1. The music store
> (Boyd's Music in Little 
>   Rock, Arkansas) had to order it so I gave them "X"
> amount of dollars 
>   for a down-payment and my balance when the unit
> came in was $1650. A 
>   guess would be that I may have given them around
> $1000 down-payment 
>   to get the order going - making the total cost at
> that time around 
>   $2650.
> 
>   SR
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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