Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi Dave,

I have most of the Manual in my head, but I recall there would be some MIDI info in the back of it.

It´s just that actually. I can´t remember it... :)

From: vidmic[mailto:vidmic@...]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:34 AM -08:00
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: The reason I joined this group

Claus,

Scanning the manual sounds like a monster undertaking, and since I do
not have a pdf creating program, the results would be some huge files
to try to up and download. I suppose they could be scanned as jpg
files, but it'd still be some long hours with a scanner. Is there a
particular section you'd be most interested in? Like for me the
section on "sound creation" is untouched by human hands.

Dave



--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Claus wrote:
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> I´m not total shure but it could be that the display itself is
the same in all of the VFX series - it would make it easier to find
and bring it alive :)
>
> Quistion: Would it be possible for You to scan the manual and mail
it to me? Or in the files section? Wouldn´t be illegal, as Ensoniq
don´t supply orighinals any more?
>
> I live in DK and have a VFX-SD1 (21voice SD1 without swing quantize
in the Seq.) but else it is the same synth.
> I´ll keep an eye on the market here for a disply for You. A local
repair shop should be able to solder it in.
>
> Btw. is it the display only, or some of the chips on the display board?
>
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> From: Dave Fowler[mailto:vidmic@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:30 AM -08:00
> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] The reason I joined this group
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I joined this group a while back and have been enjoying the posts.
But alas, this is all just fond memory for me. My SD1 32 voice died.
Actually I sort of killed it by accident. OK I killed it, but it was
an accident, brought about by poverty and desperation.
>
> It was fully functional and all (the SD1) ...but the display screen
was intermittant. Meaning when I needed to know something it faded
out and stared blankly at me, challenging me to know my way through
the menu's by rote.
>
> Sometimes on, sometimes off. I found through the frustration of
trials, that if I leaned on the case around the screen it would come
on...allowing me to work through the screens...leaning and pushing
buttons, and leaning and you get the picture.
>
> I figured. "bad solder or some goofy connection or something." I
opened the case, fiddled around, touched a few solders and hadn't
changed anything. I turned it on and it was still the same. Then I
re-opened the case and there was a spark, a sort of sick feeling in my
stomache, and now it appears to be truly dead.
>
> I took it to a dealer in St. Louis, (past dealer that is) and he
said a prayer over it and took some of my money to say, "She's not
only merely dead, she's realy most sincerely dead."
>
> Anyway, I joined for a couple of reasons. (OK as I numbered them it
turned out to be 4 reasons)
> 1. If some one was moving on from a functoinal SD1 to something else
and wanted to sell theirs, I would be interested.
>
> 2. if someone lives in MO and or Northern AK and would consider
renting me an SD1,32 voice for a few weeks, I'd recover all my work
and give it and the cash back to them. I'm still kicking myself over
the SD1-32 that went on ebay last year for $350..
>
> 3. if someone needs parts, I don't think I ruined everything.
Should have a good disk drive, I do have an aftermarket TC1 tempo
controller installed, it should be ok. I would have keys and buttons
all in pretty pristene shape. I also have a couple sound
libraries..would have to look, I've moved since then. I also have the
manuals and foot switch. I have everything but function basically.
>
> 4 .if someone thinks there is a person in the world who can fix it,
I'd be interested in knowing who they are as well.
>
> I was a home user..not a gigger...non smoker....and a very sad
repairman.
>
> I've purchased a new keyboard, but I sure miss the SD1's sequencer.
>
> Help me, save me, whatever. :-)
>
> David Fowler
> Birch Tree, MO
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