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Ensoniq ESQ Series
Family of Ensoniq digital/analog hybrid synthesizers
The Ensoniq ESQ family comprises the company's late-1980s digital/analog hybrid synthesizers, beginning with the ESQ-1 and continuing with the SQ-80. They combined digitally sampled and synthetic waveforms with analog-style four-pole low-pass filtering and an onboard sequencer.
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Synthesizers
Hardware synthesizers, synth model families, and related electronic instruments.
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Ensoniq
Ensoniq was an American electronics company founded in 1982, known for affordable samplers and synthesizers such as the Mirage and the ASR and SQ keyboard workstations.
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Ensoniq SQ-80
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq SQ-80, produced from 1988 to 1989, is an eight-voice 'cross-wave' digital/analog hybrid synthesizer and successor to the ESQ-1. It edits digital waveforms through analog-style four-pole low-pass filters, adds an expanded waveform set and polyphonic aftertouch on its 61-note keyboard, and includes an onboard sequencer.
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Ensoniq ESQ-1
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq ESQ-1, released in 1986, is an eight-voice multitimbral hybrid synthesizer combining digital waveform oscillators with analog filters and a capable built-in sequencer, offering a lot of power at an affordable price.