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"The VFX/SD series is one of the most important synth series ever created. The VFX combined "ahead of its time"-sounds and technology and the performance aspect of the VFX's was (is, almost!) second-to-none. With addition of a very intuitive Performance/Sequencer-mode with the SD models, arguably, they are one of the finest hardware sequencers ever produced in a synth.
At the time, the market was flooded with cheaper $2000-and-under synthesizers. The Ensoniq Corporation, an American company created by computer programers and chip designers wanted to put out a keyboard with all the bells and whistles with no expense spared.
The VFX is a true synthesizer, not just a reprogrammed keyboard that plays sampled sounds or a simple workstation, and with the addition of the sequence-able SD models made them the very first true marketed Music Production Synthesizers.
The VFX was the first synth ever to offer oscillators with which the actual waveform can be modulated making the sound sequence more alive, ever changing with complexities of natural sound and dynamic synthesized soundscapes.
Features include:
61 key keyboard with velocity and polyphonic after touch. ( add modulation such as vibrato to notes by applying pressure to the keys.)
In addition to synthesizer sounds it has dozens of great sounding real instrument samples including piano, strings, guitars, drums, flutes etc. Up to 12 keyboard split zones can be programed
A 24 track, 25,000 note capacity MIDI sequencer allowing the user to unleash their musical creativity
A floppy disk drive for storing songs and sounds (patches)
MIDI IN, OUT and THROUGH hook-ups for connection to computer or other MIDI devices
20 effects algorithms including large hall, small room reverbs, flanging, delay and multi effect combinations
The ability to program and store your own sound from the dozens of sampled wave forms
Specifications
Polyphony - 21 voices
Oscillators - 1 to 6 per voice. Wavetable has 109 waveforms (multi-sampled acoustic instruments, sustained waveforms, harmonic and inharmonic structures)
LFO - 1 LFO
Filter - Dual multi-mode digital filters; High- and Low-Pass with 12 or 24 dB/Oct. Band-pass filter with 12 dB/Oct.
Envelopes - 3 11-stage envelopes
Sequencer - (VFX-SD only) 24-track, 25,000 note capacity (expandable to 75,000), 60 songs and sequences, 96 PPQN quantization resolution
Effects - 24-bit Dual VLSI Multi-Effects: reverb, chorus, flanging, and delay
Keyboard - 61 keys (velocity and polyphonic aftertouch)
Memory - VFX: 120 patches, 12 performances
VFX-SD: Over 200 patches, 3.5" disk drive for external loading and storage of sounds, sequences, songs, MIDI SysEx and VFX-SD sequencer Operating System.
Control - MIDI IN/OUT/THRU (12-channel multitimbral)"
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