Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Because of the music i do I'm wondering if there's a distortion hooked into 
something other than the Leslie effect....

Does the SD-1 have extra outputs or anything? I'm considering building up or 
buying a stereo resonant low-pass filter...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe McMahon" <joe.mcmahon@...>
To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Differences between the VFX and SD-1


> Hi, Jon - let me give you the right-brain assessment.
>
> I own both a VFXsd and an SD-1/32. The VFX aftertouch is more sensitive 
> and
> softer; you really have to go at it with the SD-1, even with the 
> sensitivity
> cranked up to the softest setting.
>
> The SD-1 is a lot quieter overall; the background noise that the VFXsd 
> tends
> to have when nothing's playing is almost gone. The front-panel feel is
> identical.
>
> Soundwise, the biggest addition for me was the new solo string waveform; 
> we
> now have a pretty reasonable solo violin and cello (the cello patch that's
> in the SD-1 ROM is particularly expressive with aftertouch).
>
> The SD-1 can be forced into 21-voice (24-voice?) mode depending on which
> kind of sequences you load - apparently "old" sequences will put it back 
> in
> the less-voices mode. I can vouch for this as I have old sequences that
> actually depend on the voice-stealing algorithm to achieve certain 
> effects,
> and these still work on the SD-1. The problem is that there's no way to 
> pull
> something up that says "YOU ARE IN 32 VOICE MODE"; I have the feeling that
> most of my new sequences are also in 21/24 voice mode, but I can't really
> tell - anyone have an easy way to check this?
>
> There are more effects - but none of them stand out for me enough to
> remember what they are. Still has that lovely chorus that the VFX has.
>
> Generally, the VFX feels more "gentle" than the SD-1. I think that's 
> mostly
> the aftertouch, as I mentioned.
>