Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

I have a non-working VFX I would trade for an SD...who
wouldnt!
 
--- Steve Wahl <steve@...> wrote:

> > There were many models ni the VFX family and yes
> the
> > unit simply labeled VFX (not VFX-SD, SDII, SD-1)
> does
> > not have a sequencer.  It was a performance board
> > only. It diid have a template where you could
> store
> > 2(?) user setups, each with 12 tracks that you
> assign
> > sounds to.  
> 
> That's ONE "multi" (not two), yes it's 12 tracks,
> mostly meant to be
> used with an external sequencer.  However, there are
> still 20 x
> 3-program presets for splits / layers.  Works well
> live, if you asked
> me.
> 
> > When Ensoniq came out with the Mega-Piano waves,
> were they also
> > available for the original VFX (such as the one
> we're discussing
> > here), or was that an VFX-SD series only add-on?
> 
> It was a separate model, the VFX-SD-II, that had the
> mega piano
> waves.  You may have been able to upgrade a VFX-SD
> with a motherboard
> swap, I'm not certain.
> 
> The vanilla VFX was never able to be upgraded to
> anything; the keybed,
> wheels, and case were the only things truly in
> common with the rest of
> the series; to upgrade, one would have had to
> replace the power
> supply, motherboard, and front panel to upgrade.
> 
> > Does anyone in the group still have a VFX synth
> (non
> > sequencer version)?  I have 2 VFX-SD units and
> might
> > consider working something out with someone for a
> > trade?
> 
> I have one VFX and one VFX-SD.  I keep the VFX at
> church where I
> play, the VFX at home for practice.  (Have a rack
> that I move back &
> forth with a roland JV-1080 in it; I've said that
> before, sorry if I'm
> boring somebody by repeating it...)
> 
> But I'm not interested in a trade, sorry.  That VFX
> was my first
> synth, and I'm rather attached to it.
> 
> Someone else said:
> 
> > I think I read somewhere that the SD-1 was the
> premier synth that
> > had the piano mega-waves, but I don't know if it
> was the only one
> > and I don't know if the original VFX can use them.
> 
> VFX-SD-II had the Mega-piano waves.  The SD-1 MAY
> have improved the
> piano sounds yet again, not certain on that.
> 
> > Yesturday I read on the board that the two(SD-1
> and VFX) are not
> > compatible,
> 
> They are sys-ex compatible.  That's usually my
> litmus test.  (The
> TS-10 series is not sys-ex compatible, for example.)
> 
> Use the sys-ex from an SD-1 to try to access waves
> that don't exist on
> a VFX, and you get some garbage sounds, yes.  I
> think you also have to
> boot a 32-voice sd-1 in "21-voice mode" (however
> you'd do that) to be
> compatible with sequences made on earlier models. 
> But I'd still say
> they're compatible.
> 
> --> Steve
> -- 
> Steve Wahl    steve@...
> 
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something
> when his salary depends upon his not understanding
> it.
>     -Upton Sinclair
> 



       
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