ENSONIQ VFX User Manual

How to connect and power on the VFX, including audio and rear panel connections.

Using data entry, soft buttons, and pages for navigation and editing.

Detailed steps for modifying parameter values using controls.

Explanation of controllers like Pitch Bend, Modulation Wheels, and Pressure.

Re-initializing the VFX and managing the internal battery.

Understanding program memory types and selecting sounds.

How to layer sounds and manage presets.

Steps for editing and saving presets.

Replacing programs in presets and keyboard split tips.

Overview of Volume, Pan, and Timbre pages for sound control.

Key Zone, Transpose, and Release page parameters.

Sustain page, MIDI Status, and Channel settings.

Setting MIDI program change numbers for patch selection.

Introduction to VFX effects and how to program them.

How effects are routed and mixed via FX busses.

Guide to choosing and applying individual and combined effects.

Detailed parameters for various effects like Reverb, Delay, Flanger.

Introduction to Multi mode for layering and sequencing.

Replacing programs and layering sounds in Multi mode.

Using VFX with sequencers and MIDI channels in Multi mode.

Global system settings including Tune and Touch.

Footswitch assignments and MIDI Control Page configuration.

Setting base MIDI channels and external controllers.

Selecting MIDI modes and managing program changes.

What a program is and how voices and polyphony work.

Using Patch Select buttons and editing programs.

Program Control Page, Pitch Table, and saving programs.

Overview of voice components and modulation sources.

Choosing and parameterizing waveforms.

Adjusting pitch and configuring digital filters.

Detailed control over envelopes and LFOs for sound shaping.

How to create, edit, and remove custom pitch tables.

Interpolating pitch tables and setting alternate system tunings.

Overview of copy, recall, and context functions.

Default recall, system copies, and useful applications.

Sending and receiving data via MIDI System Exclusive.

Copying programs and presets to/from cartridges.

Overview of MIDI specification and inquiry/reply messages.

Details on MIDI packets, command types, and button mappings.

Program parameters, preset structures, and effect data details.

Slot definitions and parameter tables for various pages.