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Ensoniq VFX SD Keyboard / Synthesizer
Estimated price for orientation: 750 $
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Description Brand: Ensoniq Model: VFX SD Number of Keys: 61 Type: Keyboard Synthesizer MPN: Does Not Apply UPC: Does not apply
If you're checking this out, you most likely already know a bit about this monster '80's classic synth. Some of the best strings, pads, and many other sounds from that era. If you want more details, google a video or check out a few tidbits from the web:If Ensoniq's left some folks feeling a bit cold, even with its warm, fat analog sounds, the VFX-SD tried, perhaps vainly, to destroy those old misconceptions. This was, as one fan of the instrument once put it, "A KILLER keyboard!"The VFX-SD was Ensoniq's attempt to corner the market on low-cost, high-performance workstation synthesizer keyboards. Sporting twice the polyphony of its immedate prediecessor, the SQ-80, and FOUR TIMES that of the ESQ-1, it was, by all accounts, the very best that money could buy.If there was one complaint that anyone ever had about the VFX-SD, it was that it sounded TOO good. Its beatiful and haunting string sounds were probably the instrument's greatest strength -- while its drums and basses were too thin, brittle-sounding, because the digital filters were, in a word -- WIMPY.The VFX-SD was a VAST improvement on the original. Gone was the cartridge bay on the left (replaced with a *gasp* FLOPPY drive -- a 3.5 incher, too!)�and the many bugs that had purportedly plaged the original's OS. Ensoniq would get to about OS 4.0 or 4.5 before giving up the ghost on this machine.Finally, there were the SOUNDS. The "mega-piano" samples, as they were then called, were pretty mega alright. At just over 4 megabytes of sample data, it was the most ambitious such undertaking in synth history (though it would later be outdone by .) The drums sounded better, the vioiins and cellos were breathtaking, and the flutes were gorgeous-sounding.This synth has been tested and everything works as it should... the disk drive has not been tested, as I don't know what to do with a floppy disk. There is some slight cosmetic blemishes (see pics), but nothing major. Synth will be professionally packaged, insured and shipped with UPS.
Description
| Brand: | Ensoniq | Model: | VFX SD |
| Number of Keys: | 61 | Type: | Keyboard Synthesizer |
| MPN: | Does Not Apply | UPC: | Does not apply |
If you're checking this out, you most likely already know a bit about this monster '80's classic synth. Some of the best strings, pads, and many other sounds from that era. If you want more details, google a video or check out a few tidbits from the web:
If Ensoniq's left some folks feeling a bit cold, even with its warm, fat analog sounds, the VFX-SD tried, perhaps vainly, to destroy those old misconceptions. This was, as one fan of the instrument once put it, "A KILLER keyboard!"The VFX-SD was Ensoniq's attempt to corner the market on low-cost, high-performance workstation synthesizer keyboards. Sporting twice the polyphony of its immedate prediecessor, the SQ-80, and FOUR TIMES that of the ESQ-1, it was, by all accounts, the very best that money could buy.If there was one complaint that anyone ever had about the VFX-SD, it was that it sounded TOO good. Its beatiful and haunting string sounds were probably the instrument's greatest strength -- while its drums and basses were too thin, brittle-sounding, because the digital filters were, in a word -- WIMPY.The VFX-SD was a VAST improvement on the original. Gone was the cartridge bay on the left (replaced with a *gasp* FLOPPY drive -- a 3.5 incher, too!)�and the many bugs that had purportedly plaged the original's OS. Ensoniq would get to about OS 4.0 or 4.5 before giving up the ghost on this machine.Finally, there were the SOUNDS. The "mega-piano" samples, as they were then called, were pretty mega alright. At just over 4 megabytes of sample data, it was the most ambitious such undertaking in synth history (though it would later be outdone by .) The drums sounded better, the vioiins and cellos were breathtaking, and the flutes were gorgeous-sounding.
This synth has been tested and everything works as it should... the disk drive has not been tested, as I don't know what to do with a floppy disk. There is some slight cosmetic blemishes (see pics), but nothing major. Synth will be professionally packaged, insured and shipped with UPS.