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Re: Recovering work done long ago

2008-02-18 by Bill

St. Louis here, too, but only 1 SD-1.
--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Marty Fancher <keytrax@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>    
>     Where you at in Missouri? I'm in St Louis. I have 2 SD-1's and 
2 VFX's. 
>    
>   Marty
> 
> Dave Fowler <vidmic@...> wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> I somehow murdered my trusty old SD1 32 voice. I
> bought it new, it saw me through a bunch of making
> tracks for my church and two years of public school
> use as the main keyboard for the choir. And then
> becuase the display was acting up, I opened the lid.
> there was this spark and now there is nothing...dead
> critter. 
> 
> I'm not hopeful of bringing life back to it. 
> 
> Does anyone know if sequences created on the SD1 32vc
> can be played on any of the earlier cousins...like the
> vfx SD or the 16 voice version of the SD-1? 
> 
> I hunt ebay and the like and occasionally there's one
> of these other boards, but I don't know if I could
> recover my old data with one of them. 
> 
> I have another keyboard now, so the ideal thing for me
> would be to find an SD1 32 vc and buy it for a couple
> months, record my old tracks onto CD's and then resell
> the board.
> 
> Although if it worked, I bet I couldn't bear to sell
> it. I sure miss the interface of the SD-1 when I'm
> trying to read the crap manual that came with my
> Yamaha. The board works fine, but the Ensoniq let me
> think like a musician and not get trapped in the
> workings of the board. Like where is my tap tempo!
> 
> Dave Fowler
> Missouri
> 
> 
> 
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