EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 45, Issue 3 This issue's topics: VFX Questions (5 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:08:12 -0400 From: Dana Nibby Subject: VFX Questions Nick-- From what VFX-SD owners have told me (and I know it's not in production anymore) the VFX-SDI + VFX-SDII are very reliable. While yes, the original VFX wasn't so reliable. So why not pick up a used VFX-SD? Dana ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:38:12 -0400 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Vintage Synth Re-Issues > From what VFX-SD owners have told me (and I know it's not in production >anymore) the VFX-SDI + VFX-SDII are very reliable. I'm not sure I'd use the word "very." They're probably OK hardware-wise but the sequencing software onboard is famous for being flakey and I wouldn't trust one to be bug free. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:18:13 MDT From: "(Adam Schabtach)" Subject: Re: Vintage Synth Re-Issues >> From what VFX-SD owners have told me (and I know it's not in production >>anymore) the VFX-SDI + VFX-SDII are very reliable. > >I'm not sure I'd use the word "very." They're probably OK hardware-wise but >the sequencing software onboard is famous for being flakey and I wouldn't >trust one to be bug free. Nor would I, and I used to own a VFXsdI with the II ROMs. It would choke and act weird if you sent it controller data too quickly, and it would do even worse things (like crash altogether) if you sent it SysEx data too quickly. ("Too quickly" means "from a FaderMaster or other generic MIDI control source", in the case of controller data; and "half as slow as Ensoniq's specs recommend", in the case of SysEx data.) --Adam ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:46:14 EDT From: ronin Subject: Re: VFX questions > >:John Seboldt...Mpls, MN...As a ham, K0JD...as a human...well,... : >:UUCP:{crash, tcnet, petrus, quest}!orbit!pnet51!jseboldt __________: >:ARPA:crash!orbit!pnet51!jseboldt@nosc.mil | -<:o) : >:INET:jseboldt@pnet51.orb.mn.org | ESCHEW OBFUSCATION : hey! is someone recycling my old signatures? next thing you know, we'll be reading that 'noisy vices are pursuant to no good.' ;-> -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:48:47 PDT From: "(metlay)" Subject: Re: VFX questions Eric the Masterless Warrior Harnden scribbles: >>:INET:jseboldt@pnet51.orb.mn.org | ESCHEW OBFUSCATION : > >hey! is someone recycling my old signatures? next thing you know, we'll >be reading that 'noisy vices are pursuant to no good.' ;-> I thought that mutation of your original phrase was MINE. |-> -- metlay | and she's a master of return hitting atomic city | giving rhythm to her posts | so you read her and think hey it sounds good metlay@netcom.com | and wish her posts had a soundtrack too (f. ercolessi) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************