Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi Again,

Funny coincidence that. I made that mistake too.

Having bought a Motiv 7 with two expansion cards, expanded ram, - added 
a scsi rom and hard drive, I thought, there's NO WAY I'll ever need an 
SD-1 anymore, and so I sold it!

D'Oh.

I sold my first SD-1 when I ran out of money a few years back - fair 
enough, unavoidable.
I replaced when I could.

1 sold that second SD-1 when I bought the Motiv, (I mean why keep the 
old Mustang when you just bought a new Ferrari?) - Dumb Dumb Dumb.
You keep it coz the Mustang will get you WHERE-EVER you need to be with 
no fuss, and it'll still be heaps of fun.

The Motiv sequencer is so unfriendly as to be unusable, (as we agreed 
above) but EVERY other part of the device is driven from menus hidden 
inside other menus, that are SOOOOO unintuitive and SOOOOO very small, 
and, and, and, - oh just forget it!!!!  And it's not that I can't be 
bothered learning new gear. When the first Yamaha DM2000 digital desk 
arrived in this country for a trade show, we unpacked it, plugged it in, 
and (being the prototype - no owners manual!!!), I was demonstrating the 
thing at the show when it opened 20 minutes later. I mastered the desk 
in 15 minutes.  Not trying to brag, just pointing out that technology 
doesn't scare me, just BAD technology.

On the SD-12 one if you want one patch to be played with another, just 
double click on the second one's name button, and you are playing two 
patches.
HOW SIMPLE AND BRILLIANT IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!??????????

To combine two patches on the Motiv is possible, but I think I studied 
less to get my drivers license!!!!

So after a couple of years of searching, I bought my third SD-1. And 
this one you can try and pry from my cold dead hands in you want to give 
it a shot!!
But get this. I paid $175 US for an SD-1 32 voice from it's original 
owner, with original packaging completely intact, all manuals, disks, 
two years copies of Transonic hacker, Gleiber software - everything!!! 
MINT!!! WA-HOOOOooo......

Just love the damn thing. (um I guess you worked that out maybe.......)

cheers

Chuck (not my real hair)