Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer patch set "ESQ-1 Re-Rescue Fun" by Kirk Slinkard

[@1vootman]

I've never heard a SQ-80 sound better in anybody else's hands...Great work Kirk

[@maxmace111]

Brilliant work, as always. You are truly the preeminent sound designer for the Ensoniq ESQ/SQ-80 architecture. If any potential customers are on the fence, JUST BUY THESE SOUNDS. your ESQ can sound as good or better than any digital or analog synth available. Love the buttery authentic sound you are able to coax out of this synth (and your "Pink Floyd" imagery). You are a sonic magician, Mr. Slinkard.

[@DOSputin]

SCIENCE! Love all of it! We still need to finish that ESQ-1 Cartridge project, now that the threats of COVID are a thing of the past I can focus on fun.

[@9KznfiS87f7]

@@DOSputin Previously I thought I had enough patches, but didn't actually. Could work now. [e-mail]

[@Samplers]

SQ-80m user from Australia. Love everything you do.

[@9KznfiS87f7]

Thanx. Other than the keyboard, is there anything different from using the "m"?

[@paulgardener5525]

Long live the ESQ1 :)

[@jbognap]

I love your moving wave video. The only other way the sounds you presented there could have been created was with wavetable scanning. I wonder if to engineers at Ensoniq knew what they created.

[@9KznfiS87f7]

In 1985 there weren't a lot of digital waveform synthesizers with the sync feature, so you might have a point about what was known at that time. Even now there's a lot more to be explored...

[@chinossynthesizer705]

I had a sq-80, and the battery would get very warm when playing it and it had midi problems. and eventually, it froze, and you couldn't restart it. The sq-80 turned on but when i pressed a button, it would show this ???? Or random stuff.

[@9KznfiS87f7]

If you haven't already, join the SQ-80 mailing list for advice: [e-mail] - And the ESQs are also discussed there.