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Renaming itself as Ensoniq, the new company instead designed a music synthesizer. Ensoniq grew rapidly over the next few years with the success of the Mirage and the ESQ-1. The plant in Great Valley, Pennsylvania employed nearly 200 people and housed the manufacturing facility.
Sep 22, 2021 · Right at the dawn of the revolutions in digital sampling and digital synthesis, Ensoniq seemed to emerge out of nowhere in the early '80s with technology that bested their competition. The secret? An ultra powerful microchip—the "Q" chip—developed by Ensoniq's founders, a group of engineers that left Commodore Business Machines ...
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In 1988, Ensoniq introduced a successor to the Mirage with the more advanced EPS (Ensoniq Performance Sampler), and later the EPS-16+ and finally, the ASR-10. After the launch of the EPS in 1988, Ensoniq cut the price of the Mirage to $899, making it by far the least-expensive sampler then available.
Demo of ESQ 1 with wether GFI soecular reverb or GFI clockwork delay. No additional processing but those two pedals (first the reverb, than delay and in the ...
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Nov 3, 2019 · 61K views 4 years ago. The Ensoniq Mirage, a classic sampler from the mid-1980s 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Piano ...more.
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Oct 2, 2019 · The Birth of Ensoniq In 1982, Bruce Crockett, Al Charpentier, and Bob Yannes founded Ensoniq after leaving Commodore Business Machines, where they had helped kickstart the home computer revolution and became renowned VLSI (very large scale integration) experts.
May 17, 2019 · Clearly, something was needed to build on the momentum created by the Mirage, and maintain Ensoniq’s new rep as an innovative company. Enter the Ensoniq Performance Sampler, or EPS. The EPS shared a design basis with the company’s now-classic ESQ-1 wavetable synth, with a big, bright vacuum fluorescent display, and bulky, angular ...
