Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On 4 Mar 2012, at 14:20, fddi wrote:

> Hello which One of the two is better in your opinion? I have to buy one of those. Thank you.

To the best of my understanding:

Fundamentally, the SD-1 is a somewhat upgraded VFX-SD - whilst still remaining fully backwards compatible. Everything you can do on a VFX-SD you can also do on an SD-1; but there are things you can do on the SD-1 that you can't do on the VFX-SD: there are some waveforms that are only on the SD-1 but not on the VFX-SD, and so on. Also, the software in the SD-1 is newer / better than in the VFX-SD. Add of course the 32-voice version of the SD-1 obviously has more voices available and this can play more sounds simultaneously.

But, this doesn't make the VFX-SD 'not good' any more. I still have the VFX-SD I bought in 1990; but I also bought a second-hand SD-1/32 as an 'extended backup', so to speak. Both still sound amazing.

I know, I've not actually been much help ;)

// Christian Brunschen