Ensoniq VFX repair session

Published on Dec 1, 2013 MiK-Music·56 videos

Haven't seen a MiK-Music repair video in some time.  It's great to see one again.

"Due to the nice positive feedback on the Poly 61 repair session video [posted here], i decided to try something new. Pulled this Ensoniq VFX from the bay and decided i will just let the camera run and comment what i'm doing. Nothing was prepared, no educational intention behind it, i just let you look over my shoulder when i fix a synth i don't know.

I never touched a VFX before, i have an EPS and just wanted another inductive poly pressure keyboard, so i bought this thing without even knowing how it sounds. The more important reason for the purchase was "something to repair", i was in the mood for it :) But i like the final result, this thing sounds really nice.

I thought this video might get more interesting as we're talking about debugging and fixing a machine without having any schematics at all, there simply are no usable documents for the 68000 based Ensoniq machines. But at the end, the defect was quite small - in fact i don't really know what the problem was. But maybe you can get some inspiration anyway.

If you like it, i might do it this way more often, more interesting things might happen in other repair sessions and i didn't spent too much in making the video pretty, so not that much additional effort."