Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi,

I joined this group a while back and have been enjoying the posts. But alas, this is all just fond memory for me. My SD1 32 voice died. Actually I sort of killed it by accident. OK I killed it, but it was an accident, brought about by poverty and desperation.

It was fully functional and all (the SD1) ...but the display screen was intermittant. Meaning when I needed to know something it faded out and stared blankly at me, challenging me to know my way through the menu's by rote.

Sometimes on, sometimes off. I found through the frustration of trials, that if I leaned on the case around the screen it would come on...allowing me to work through the screens...leaning and pushing buttons, and leaning and you get the picture.

I figured. "bad solder or some goofy connection or something." I opened the case, fiddled around, touched a few solders and hadn't changed anything. I turned it on and it was still the same. Then I re-opened the case and there was a spark, a sort of sick feeling in my stomache, and now it appears to be truly dead.

I took it to a dealer in St. Louis, (past dealer that is) and he said a prayer over it and took some of my money to say, "She's not only merely dead, she's realy most sincerely dead."

Anyway, I joined for a couple of reasons. (OK as I numbered them it turned out to be 4 reasons)

1. If some one was moving on from a functoinal SD1 to something else and wanted to sell theirs, I would be interested.

2. if someone lives in MO and or Northern AK and would consider renting me an SD1,32 voice for a few weeks, I'd recover all my work and give it and the cash back to them. I'm still kicking myself over the SD1-32 that went on ebay last year for $350..

3. if someone needs parts, I don't think I ruined everything. Should have a good disk drive, I do have an aftermarket TC1 tempo controller installed, it should be ok. I would have keys and buttons all in pretty pristene shape. I also have a couple sound libraries..would have to look, I've moved since then. I also have the manuals and foot switch. I have everything but function basically.

4 .if someone thinks there is a person in the world who can fix it, I'd be interested in knowing who they are as well.

I was a home user..not a gigger...non smoker....and a very sad repairman.

I've purchased a new keyboard, but I sure miss the SD1's sequencer.

Help me, save me, whatever. :-)

David Fowler

Birch Tree, MO