Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hey fellow VFXrs,

After 10+ years with VFX-SD, I finally have gotten it to break!!! 
Here are the symptoms: 

I moved it to a jam session the other night the same as I always do, 
the weather was mild and keys weren't in the car that long. when I 
turned the unit on, I went to Seq and got the Sequencer Not Loaded 
message. Then I tried repeatedly to reload the Sequencer but 
everytime I hit Disk:Load it woul come back and say "System 
Initialization Error 179" Now maybe it was 79, I don't remember. I 
tried everytning, turned it off and on, banged it a few times. When I 
tried the same operation without a disk in, it did know to say "no 
disk". 

Thank God the presets worked and i could play! So the next day, I 
brought it home, turned it on, reloaded the sequencer and it worked 
fine. The next night I turned it on and left it on and when I came 
back a few hours later it was constantly resetting with a "System 
Initialization Error 33". Flicking power , it straightened out and I 
had to reload sequencer and it worked for the next couple days.

I took it apart and looked for anything obvious. I measured the 
battery, still up at 2.97 volts.

My baby is getting flakey. Any ideas?????

Dan

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "gottamakethings" 
<gottamakethings@a...> wrote:
> Hey fellow VFXrs,
> 
> After 10+ years with VFX-SD, I finally have gotten it to break!!! 
> Here are the symptoms: 
> 
> I moved it to a jam session the other night the same as I always 
do, 
> the weather was mild and keys weren't in the car that long. when I 
> turned the unit on, I went to Seq and got the Sequencer Not Loaded 
> message. Then I tried repeatedly to reload the Sequencer but 
> everytime I hit Disk:Load it woul come back and say "System 
> Initialization Error 179" Now maybe it was 79, I don't remember. I 
> tried everytning, turned it off and on, banged it a few times. 
When I 
> tried the same operation without a disk in, it did know to say "no 
> disk". 
> 
> Thank God the presets worked and i could play! So the next day, I 
> brought it home, turned it on, reloaded the sequencer and it 
worked 
> fine. The next night I turned it on and left it on and when I came 
> back a few hours later it was constantly resetting with a "System 
> Initialization Error 33". Flicking power , it straightened out and 
I 
> had to reload sequencer and it worked for the next couple days.
> 
> I took it apart and looked for anything obvious. I measured the 
> battery, still up at 2.97 volts.
> 
> My baby is getting flakey. Any ideas?????
> 
> Dan

Try totally recallibrating the VFX, back up your sequences and 
sounds before doing this, it will erase everything. Should work.

I looked everywhere for the secret handshake, but I am not sure which 
three fingered contortion causes a full recalibrate.

thanks

dan

> you wrote:

> Try totally recallibrating the VFX, back up your sequences and 
> sounds before doing this, it will erase everything. Should work.

You have to take your right shoe off, then standing, turn around to your left 
three times being sure never to look either up or down and whisper this 
phrase once and only once:

"If I ever find out I will never forget"

or...........

You can simply turn the power switch on and then press the "Preset" button 
along with the upper left "soft" button on the top of the display - then respond 
correctly to the question.

psst.....

thanx