Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Thank you for all of the information, eveyone.  I do not have a 
cartridge, so I cannot access any violin patches.  I tried to stack 
waveforms and it just did not work well, so it looks like I will be 
without a violin patch to use.  I also have a SQ2 32-voice synth and 
used the same parameters when trying to make the violin on the VFX, 
but I just could not get the timbre and voicing right to make it 
believeable.  I ended up even trying some of the waveform waves and 
Transwaves and it just did not sound convincing.  That is okay, maybe 
one day, I will find an SQ-R or SQ-1 32-voice that I can take to my 
gigs as well, if only for that patch.  
  It has been fun though hearing the same patches I remember on my 
VFX-SD when they came out with the SQ lines though.  We all remember 
the Merlin patch on the VFX, and there is the same patch called 
Mystic on my SQ-2.  I have been able to transfer a lot of patches 
over to the VFX from teh SQ that I used since I did not have a VFX 
fior such a long time.

I know that my VFX boards are not the SD-II models.  One has a build 
date of 12/07/89 and the other VFX has a build date of 3/27/90.  The 
one in 1990 has had the keyboard mod done, but the other one has 
not.  I will eventually get it done on the one built in 1989 so they 
are both reliable on stage.  I also modded a fan for thh one I use 
live and it works great.  It is a little computer fan and I just 
hooked up a 12v power supply (hooray for Radio Shack) and it works 
great.  I wound it around the regular power cord for the VFX, so they 
both plug in at the same place.  I would have gotten the cooler fans 
from Richard at Route 66 Studios, but he was still out of them:(.

Anyway, that is all for now.  Take care, all, and when the addy is 
given or the Zip Code is given for the get-together up in WI, I would 
like to see if I could make it, and we could all jam up there.

Harry Ebbeson III
Ebbeson Management Group