Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:59:18PM -0000, <swomp_rabbit@...> wrote:
> 
> I am curious as to how many original VFX and/or SD-1 owners are in 
> this group???

Sorry I'm rather late to reply, I've been busy.

I've owned my original VFX since October or November of 1990.  The
VFX-SD was available, but I intended to use my computer for a
sequencer and didn't figure I needed to spend the extra dough.

I have since purchased a used VFX-SD, that I got for a good price
because it was apparently having the keyboard problems -- I've told
that story here before, so I won't bore you with it again.  So I'm
half original owner / half someone who purchased used!

Both are still in excellent condition -- I consider the 'SD being in
excellent condition once I fixed the problems -- and I've replaced the
battery twice on the vanilla VFX, while the 'SD is going strong on its
original battery!

Now the VFX hangs out at church (my regular "gig" :-)), and the VFX-SD
at home, and I don't have to carry the keyboard back & forth.

The VFX-SD sequencer still puzzles me.  It's not that I can't do
things with it, it's just that I feel like I'm fighting it, yet people
always praised it as being one of the easiest out there.  It may be
that I want to think of it like linear multitracking rather than
pattern based.  (One example comes to mind: Why does the first track
you record to a sequence have to set the length?  Sometimes I decide
on the second track that I want to extend something, and later go back
and fix the first track, but that doesn't work.)

I'd love to see somebody write up the process they use from begining
to end, how they use sequences vs. songs, do you start with a drum
loop, where do you put it, etc.

--> Steve
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