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ENSONIQ VFX SD User Manual
Music production synthesizer
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Grounding
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Getting Started
Power
AC Line Conditioning
Amplification
Running through a Home Stereo System
Rear Panel Connections
Phones
Main out Right/Mono
Main out Left/Mono
Foot Switch Input
MIDI in
MIDI out
MIDI Thru
Data Entry
Communicating with the VFX
Soft Buttons
Parametric Programming
Pages
Sub-Pages
Changing a Parameter
Hint
Performance Controllers
Pressure
Modulation Wheel
Cartridge Insertion and Removal
Re-Initializing the VFX
Warning
Low Battery Voltage
When to Replace the Battery
Available Options
Playing Sounds and Presets
Program Memory
Internal
Rom
Bank Buttons
Selecting a Sound
Choosing Internal, ROM and Cartridge Sounds
Layering
Primary Sound Vs. Layered Sounds
About Tracks
Preset Mode Vs Sequencer Mode
About Presets
Preset
Performance Parameters
Preset Memory
Selecting Presets
Editing a Preset
Saving a Preset
Avoiding Confusion When Using Presets
Replace Program
Replacing a Program in a Preset
Replacing a Program and the Effect in a Preset
Performance Tip - Creating Keyboard Splits
About Performance Parameters
Volume Page
Pan Page
Timbre Page
Key Zone Page
Setting the Key Zone
Transpose Page
Release Page
Track Control Parameters
Patch Select Page
Latching Patch Selects
Pressure Page
Sustain Page
Using Effects with Performance Presets
Performance MIDI Parameters Page
MIDI Status
MIDI Channel
Transmit
MIDI Program Number
Entering Program Change Numbers Directly
Programs Changes in the VFX
Effects
Understanding VFX Effects
Program Effects
Preset Effects
Sequencer Effect
Programming Effects
The Effects Busses
Single Function Effect
Effects Mixing
Multiple Function Effect
Selecting Effects
Modulators Which Can be Applied to the Effects
Programs and Presets
When Are New Effects Loaded into the ESP Chip?
Performance Control of Effects in Preset or Sequencer Mode
Controllers Routed to Effects
Effect Parameters
Single Effects
Decay-Time
Pre-Delay
Early-Refl.level
FX-2 Mode
HF-Damping
Decay-Mod
Modsrc
Diffusion
Rate
Depth
Delay
Feedback
Combined Effects
Gated+Room.verbs
Time
Slope
Threshold
Release-Time
Chorus+Reverb 1 & 2
Depth MOD
MIX
Waveshape
MIX Level
Sequencer Basics
Introduction
The MIDI Connection
Digital Sequencing
Loading the Sequencer Operating System from Disk
What Is a Sequence?
What Is a Song?
Sequencer Transport Controls
Sequencer Status
Sequencer Banks
Selecting a Sequence or Song
Playing Sequences and Songs
Sequencer Tracks
Replacing the Program on a Track
Layering Programs on the Track Pages
Sequencer Tracks and the Performance Parameters
Copying a Preset into 3 Sequencer Tracks
Creating a New Sequence or Song
To Create a New Sequence
Click Page
Click
Seq Control Page
Record-Mode
Tempo
Autopunch
Loop
Song Step Effect
Edit Tracks
Free
Save Changes
Seq-OS
Locate Page
Sequence Locate Page
Song Locate Page
Song Tempo Offset
Song Autolocate Control
Using the Autopunch Feature
Reset
Set
Edit Times in Song Mode
Setting the Edit Times in Real Time
Recording a Sequence
Record Additional Tracks
Punching in on a Track
Playing Along with a Sequence/Auditioning New Sounds
MIDI Sequencing on the VFX
MIDI Mode and Channel - Destination Instruments
MIDI Track Configuration
Recording MIDI Tracks
Additional Sequencer Functions
Recording Controllers into Sequencer Tracks
Recording Program Changes
Assigning a Track to the Aux Outputs
Using the Aux Outputs as Separate Mono Outs
Track Volume Functions
Song Mode
Switching Effects in Song Mode
Song Tracks
Viewing Sequence Tracks in Song Mode
Mixing down Sequence and Song Tracks in Song Mode
A few Notes about Mixdown Mode
System Control
Master Page
Tune
Touch
Bendrng
Footswitch
Fs1
Fs2
Slider
CV-Pedal
System Pitch-Table
MIDI-TRK-Names
Kybd-Naming
Voice-Muting
MIDI Control Page
Base-Chan
XPOS - MIDI Transpose Enable
Send-Chan
XCTRL - External Controller
MIDI in Mode
Mono Mode
Global Controllers in Mono Mode
Controllers
Song-Sel
Start/Stop
Sys-Ex
Prog Chg
Receiving Program Changes
Subsequent Program Changes
Selecting a New Sequence or Song Effect from MIDI
Programming
What Is a Program?
VFX Program Structure
Voices and Polyphony
Patch Select Buttons
Using the Compare Button/Led
Edit Buffer
Abandoning Your Edits
Select Voice Page
Short Cuts
Group Edit Mode
Using the Group Edit Feature
Programming the Patch Selects
Program Control Page
Pitch Table
Bend Range
Restrike
Glide-Time
Write Page
Saving a New Program into Memory
Copying an Existing Program to Another Location
Voice Programming
Modulators
About Modulation
Selecting a Modulator
Modulation Sources
Low Frequency Oscillator
Noise
Noise Generator
Mod Mixer/Shaper
Velocity
Keyboard Tracking
Timbre Control
Voltage Control Foot Pedal
Pitch Bend Wheel
External Controller
Pressure + Velocity
Wave Page
Wave Class
Wave List
General Wave Parameters
Wave Name
Type-Specific Wave Parameters
Start
Vel-Startmod
Forward/Reverse
Trans-Wave Parameters
Modamt
Waveform and Inharmonic Parameters
Multi-Wave Parameters
VFX Drum Sounds
Multi-Drum Wave Layouts
Pitch Page
Octave
Semitone
Fine
Pitch Mod Page
Glide
Filter 1 Page
Cutoff
Kbd
Filter 2 Page
Output Page
Vol
Lo/Hi-Key
Setting a Keyboard Zone
Destination Bus
Pan
Voice Priority
Velocity Threshold
LFO Page
LFO Frequencies
VFX Envelopes
Editing the Envelopes
Initial
Peak
Break
Attack
Decay
Release
KYBD-Track
VEL-Curve
Mode
Voice Triggering/Stealing Notes
Velocity Level Control
Velocity Attack Control
Mod Mixter Page
Scale
Shape
Using Pitch-Tables
About Pitch-Tables
How to Create a Custom Pitch-Table
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