Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi all,

I've just joined and I am so glad to see that I am not alone in the 
Universe and that there are still so many Ensoniq Synths still going 
strong.  I live in Scotland and in 25 years of gigging have only 
ever encountered one other Ensoniq synth (an SQ1).  I've had a 
second hand ESQ1 from the 80's and bought a new SD1(32) in the 90's.

ESQ1: I had looked at various synths but at the time this was the 
only one in my price range that did things the way I expected - 
splittable KB, layerable, readable patch names.  I've had to nurse 
it back to health through various ailments from popped keys, blown 
bridge rectifiers, not reading cartridges correctly and keyboard 
areas that refused to work.  Glad to say that it's currently going 
great although I've now retired it.

SD1: Ensoniq seemed to be able to read my mind and this was exactly 
the beast I was waiting on so the first chance I got I bought one.  
Other than the 'expected' quirkiness of Ensoniq's, I've never had 
any major problems with this synth.  Like the rest of the family 
it's a bit noisy during the decay stage of the envelope, if anything 
is left selected by the slider it randomly goes to it's highest 
setting - tempo, tuning, etc., I get the occassional "memory full" 
error while recording even though I have only used a fraction of 
that available.  However, all of that aside , I love Ensoniq synths. 
I wish I could buy a car for £2000 which would serve me as well for 
so long.

Cheers,

John