Ensoniq ESQ-1 Factory Patches (OS 3.53)

How does the patches in Ensoniq ESQ-1 sound from factory? Well at least from the OS 3.53. The one with the hidden wavefiles.
I got the question and here is my answer.
#esq #esq-1
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[@craigsg01]

I had one of these about 25 years ago. I can't even remember what I did with it 🤣 I don't recall selling it I think I gave it to a friend. Was good synth back in the day.

[@synthfellow]

It was a good synth and still is.. very underrated in my opinion.

[@gasparpini]

Omg thank you for this opportunity to listen all sounds 😮 🙏 this synth it’s amazing. Thank you

[@synthfellow]

Agree! It’s amazing and underrated.

[@mathumphreys]

Thanks for giving the ESQ1 some love (I love mine). I've got the 3.50 ROM and I'd be interested to hear the extra waveforms accessible with the 3.53 ROM.

[@synthfellow]

Thank you for watching... that could be shown in a future video :)

[@audiolego]

The ESQ1 was my first real real real professional synthesizer in 97 omg.

[@synthfellow]

@@audiolego I love mine.. but never had one until a couple of years ago.

[@senormidi2142]

Thanks lot for sharing this video. Very resourceful!

[@synthfellow]

Thank you for watching!

[@ellucerodelteclado548]

Very good. Thank you teacher for sharing the factory sounds of the synthesizer, Ensoniq esq1. Very good video, we will wait for more interesting videos about the beauty of synthesizers.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@synthfellow]

Thank you for watching and a reason to do this video. :)

[@ellucerodelteclado548]

Thanks, teacher ❤❤

[@davedagreat69]

There was only ever around 5 of the presets I liked. Luckily it is a piece of cake to program, and great sounds are easy to find as you fiddle about.

[@synthfellow]

Programming the ESQ is pretty straight forward and filled with possibilities. :)

[@earthelder2065]

Great keyboard! I had one.

[@synthfellow]

I love my esq-1 :)

[@HereXEG]

Okay so when I go to internal, all I get is a bunch of Brass1. Its in every setting 1-4. I did the factory reset like you said, but it still says Brass1 on all the internal setings. Cart A and Cart B have different sounds. Do I need the 3.2 upgrade to get sounds in my internal banks?

[@synthfellow]

Yes you need to update the os. Mine is 3.52. But you can send the patches via sysex. Then you don’t need to upgrade. BUT if you do a factory reset or the battery dies your back to the Brass sounds and you’ll have to do the sysex thing again.

[@PeranMe]

Yay, new video!!! ❤❤❤

[@synthfellow]

Not a day too late :)

[@HereXEG]

How do you update, mine said 2.0 how do I get the 3.53?

[@synthfellow]

You need an Eprom and switch with the old. Which is a hardware update. I think you can get the 3.53 on eBay. You need two. Upper and lower.

[@HereXEG]

Thank you!

[@Johnsormani]

Os 3.53 isn’t an official Ensoniq OS. The last official OS was 3.50, which ironed out some bugs in the precious OS. 3.53 is just adding the hidden waveforms

[@synthfellow]

Thank you! Didn’t know that ❤️

[@macavree9464]

Do you have any sound cartridges?

[@synthfellow]

I got a sound cartridge yes.

[@user-JM1967]

I have a S4 plus from Alesis, 1996. It has a digital sound. It is good and It works well. But digital sound is boring. So I prefer analog synthsizer. Many synths from 80's and 90's have digital sound. That's past. From now to the future, let's go with analog synthsizer!

[@synthfellow]

Well... analog was before digital so they are more from the past than the digital synths.

[@user-JM1967]

@@synthfellow yes, piano is from the past. And violin too. Music is from the past!

[@macavree9464]

13:22 x-files?

[@synthfellow]

Ah.. no... ;)

[@Pamberjack_]

05:15 SOOOOO PPG

[@synthfellow]

A budget PPG 😀.

[@Lgiorgiojr1]

Why aren’t you playing the esq1

[@synthfellow]

Well ... I am ... when I want the ESQ-1 sound. Or am I missunderstanding your question?

[@synthfellow]

Or.. do you mean in the video? In that case, a good question! :) It really was easier to control it via MIDI with my SY99 which I use as a master keyboard. There´s nothing wrong with the ESQ...

[@Lgiorgiojr1]

@@synthfellow thank you I never tried using mine with other devices via midi not sure where to start?

[@synthfellow]

@@Lgiorgiojr1 there are lots of tutorials out there. Maybe I’ll make one some day. 😀

[@synthfellow]

What other devices do you have?

[@larslevinberget9558]

Very boring meat and potatoes synth for the bedroom synth geek, but most useful for the gigging musician. With the DP4 this could be a studio-monster :) The Kurzveill K1000 and Peavey DPM3 / 4 were her cousins

[@synthfellow]

I'm not so sure about the boring part ;) .. but agree about the DP4. Or should I say.. every synth needs effects to grow to it's full potential.

[@chinossynthesizer705]

It's not boring at all. it's a wavetable synth it's sound neat for its time kinda like a ppg wave. I've made really good sq-80 patches with more waveforms, but mines broke . I do fm synthesis now. You probably find fm synthesis boring, too, right? Limited gear can make you creative. Also, the esq was made by the same dude who made the commodore 64 sid chip.

[@synthfellow]

Agree!

[@Johnsormani]

You shouldn’t judge a synth on its factory presets anyway. I really don’t know many synths that had a full bank of great usable patches. D50 had a few famous ones, dx7 had a handful , but most synths just tried to replicate real instruments with their synths, especially the Japanese with lots of instruments like koto, shamisen etc. The Esq1 is a very capable instrument but you have to dive into it. It has a very powerful parameter setup, with many mod sources compared to the competition back then. The single cycle waveforms were very efficiently chosen and useful. Later with the sq80 they added a lot of waveforms but these were mainly instrument samples and drum sounds.

[@synthfellow]

@@Johnsormani agree! And the fact that today synths aren’t for replicating original acoustic instruments. These days synths can be synths :)