Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

hi folks, 

last year I started a topic about Ensoniq's sequencers...
my point, at that time, was that the sequencers I was using were more than enough, and had more facilities, so my SD1's sequencer was pretty useless and so on...

a year passed by... a few days ago, I took the bull by its horns and 'forced' myself to use SD1's internal sequencer... 

I remembered that last year, I started by reading the manual, and I quickly got tired about it all...

this time, no manual reading! I just sit and managed to record some drums and bass patterns (I mean 'backing' tracks for a rock song, not drum & bass uh)... in a few minutes I was sequencing my first "song" on the SD1! I recorded in realtime, sometimes I used record overdub ("add") for the drum parts; also, I used quantization a lot because I was not used to record drums in realtime, after years of drumgrid sequencers use...

and I have to say, it's not that bad instead! it's whole logic is a bit different than what I was used to, but all in all it's not THAT hard to use... 
now I have to go give a good read to the fucking manual to better master the various functions, but I must recognize that it is worth the effort after all... 
I know there is a step sequencer in there too, and I can always use external arpeggiators and record their midi output in a SD1 track...
that way, the sequencer is going to be a real weapon! 
the trick is: don't limit the sequencer to it's own features, but use your other gear in tandem with it!

also, now I can finally use odd time measures (5/4, 7/8 and so on) and have different tempos for each part of the song... 
yes! the sequencer I used up to now (quasimidi raven and sirius) only let you choose tempo for the whole song, and the time measure is fixed in 4/4... once, to sequence a song that had a tempo change between the verse and the chorus, I had to use triplets a/o strange bar lenght... I don't even remember how I did it! that was insane... 

so, welcome SD1 sequencer!


Fabio