For Sale: Tested and working classic 1980's synth.
When first powered on it gives the low battery voltage warning, still works 100% and has excellent sound quality. Very very clean with only a tiny bit of cosmetic wear that you have to look hard to see. Display is nice and bright, all keys, buttons, sliders, pitch bend wheel, controls, inputs, outputs, etc. are working correctly. Sound quality is perfect. More info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_ESQ-1 :
Ensoniq ESQ-1 is a 61-key, velocity sensitive, eight-note polyphonic and multitimbral synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1986. Although its voice generation is typically subtractive in much the same fashion as most analog synthesizers that preceded it, its oscillators are neither voltage nor "digitally controlled", but provided by a custom Ensoniq wavetable chip. The rest of the signal path is analog, including resonant low-pass filters.
The synth also features a (crude by modern standards but) fully functional 8-track MIDI sequencer that can run either its internal sounds, external MIDI equipment, or both, with a capacity of 2,400 notes (expandable via cartridges). It provides quantization, step-editing, primitive forms of copy/paste editing, and can be synchronized with external MIDI or tape-in clock.
ESQ-1 can store 40 presets internally, and features a cartridge slot for additional storage capability. ESQ-M, a rackmount version of the synthesizer, was released circa 1987, with the same specifications but without the sequencer.
Notably, wavetable chip at the core of the synth is a brainchild of Robert Yannes, father of the popular SID chip, and bears some limited architectural similarity, though it is far advanced.
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