Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

oh yeah, you got to be creative with your gear! "in love and war there ain't no rules"... let's put music in too!

I still think some aspects of this sequencer are (a bit) counter-intuitive, anyway I don't think there are really "better" sequencers out there... 

I hate software sequencers with a passion, and I limit the use of the pc to recording, mixing and... web surfing... 
web surfing is surely bad when you spend too much time lusting for extra gear (the notorius Gear Acquisition Syndrome...)... 

...but it's good instead when you can talk with smart persons that can help you concentrate yourself on what you can do with YOUR gear and stop lusting for something that 99% of the time you don't even need!

Fabio

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Rish <rish@...> wrote:
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> That's great news, I have been using my SD for many years with outboard gear. I never seq the drums on the SD as it easts lots of notes, instead I just slave a real drum machine and create the seq/songs drum parts on the drum machine.
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> R 
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> Sent from my iPod
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> On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:58 AM, "somethingkillingyou" <somethingkillingyou@...> wrote:
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> > hi folks, 
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> > 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... 
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> > so, welcome SD1 sequencer!
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> > Fabio
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