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Great stuff my friend!! Thank you.

This is awesome. One of the more interesting old digital synths.

Is it possible you point me in the direction of the soundprocess OS? .HFE format if possible. Thanks in advance

just thinking back, toggling btw the upper and lower banks on the old Mirage sampler seems those in between presets weren't really labeled on the floppy disks. They were like the "leftover" sounds of sampling, Transwave may have been an fruitful accident. akin to granular. Still it's cryptic programming..

This is the secret synth Drexciya used in many of their projects. Very electro. Even drum sounds sound great.

I hear the pedigree of the Fizmo here. Never knew about the TS-10, but I had a Fizmo for a few years, it was very spacey and far-out, I see from here that it's just in the DNA.

For those interested in really hearing the 2nd Gen D-Series synths shine, throw an external EQ biased towards the low-end + decent external effects into the audio chain - What you end up with is a surprisingly powerful budget D-50 that still can be used today, nearly 40 years later...

i follow your example excatly and my ts-12 can get as far as launching the first sample in a hyperwave and then won't play the sequence

This is a great series

This is a lovely & inspiring tutorial Robin, thankyou.I have watched it & your other Ensoniq demoes many times. I have a question for you or any other TS10/12 owners if thats ok? I recently bought a TS10 & I cant get patches into it via midi/ Sys-Ex. I use SysEx Librarian & have used it for years without issue, but no matter what I do I cant load my patches into the TS10. I have backed up my patches several times, but can not load them back into the TS10. Am I missing something? The manual says that only Sys-ex needs to be set to on in the midi settings in order for the TS10 to receive system exclusive data ( patches.) The midi in port is working fine with note in from other keyboards.I would be grateful for any advice, thanks.

amazing!

Amazing stuff Just picked up an asr10 rack and an eps-m rack Would it work with the eps classic ? Imagine adding a Tascam 246 to your setup and have each out going to its channel on the 4 track and pitching down etc omg

Woah! I didn't even know this was a thing! I bought the Ensoniq Mirage when it first came out in 1984, and still have it, but it no longer loads my Diskettes. I'll have to look into this Soundprocess OS.

Hello, thank you for this. Am a bit confused on how this is working. MIDI isn’t sending audio so how is the audio data getting into the sampler? Or where is the midi in the sampler triggering audio from I guess? Without sampling through the ins of the asr and using the outs aren’t you also losing its sonic signature?

24 yrs with an EPS16+ and I just learned something new! Killer way to stretch out the sound. Thanks a lot for the vid. You should sell individual samples for 5 bucks, I'd buy this one! Cheers...

Thank you for these fine help-full video's I also enjoy your playing. Regards Geert

Amazing textures. I got tired of the new cold, sterile and glassy synths and finally got an EPS. This is the reason why.

Best video ever

I've been watching your TS-12 videos and I didn't know you had an ESQ -1! (I really need to go through all of your videos). Thanks so much for doing this!! I love my TS-12 and ESQ-1!!!

This is one of the best ASR 10 video-tutorial i have seen in my life. I used my ASR 10 as a workstation in the 90ties and loved the machine. I always thought that i knowed the machine inside out, but your video proofed that i was sooo wrong. It really shows off, that the ASR 10 is way more than just a simple sampler. Ensoniq was a amazing brand, so much ahead in time vs. other brands.

hello Im working on mac do you knowa free program doing the same on osx ? thx

Please! show me how to do new pattern beat and record it, i read manual but not understand, Rec mode

I had one of these. Only synth I ever had that would overheat and shut down. The vaunted poly aftertouch required too hard a key press so I could never use it. I also had an SQ1 which had better transwaves but I traded it for the TS. I regretted it. 16 step hyperwave implementation was much inferior to Korg wave sequencing. I actually took home 2 TS 10s, had to return the first because the ESP chip was defective. Ensoniq went out of business for a reason.

This is inspiring. How did you transfer it to the EPS once you had created the file? Simply sample it in, or via MIDI transfer? Thank you.

The hyperwaves that are basically Ensoniq's version of Korg Wavestation wave sequencing sound absolutely amazing. What a shame that they couldn't be synced via midi clock unlike the Wavestation, unless Ensoniq added this capability in a newer software update? Please correct me if I'm wrong? Keep up the great work.

What OS Version are you using please ?? When i follow your tutorial, my screen doesn't always say the same thing... Thanks for any help.... I'm using OS V1.30

Wow! Now this is what I am interested in! Using these synths for unusual and alien type sounds. Great job! Awesome use of the esq-1. The best use of this synth I’ve seen so far. Really inspired by this video, thank you!

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heard the new ESP16 plugin ?? it's amazing and sounds just as good - probably better 🤣🤣😂😂 and it doesn't overheat 🙃

Shweet! My friend found one of these left for free outside a house -- I'll have to let him know about this

They should've included stuff like this in the presets. Probably would've been the best selling synths of the early 90's.

Spectacular! Robin you such a beautiful artist. I used to be such a fan of the Korg Wavestation and never dreamed my keyboard could sound like it. Amazing work you do. I’m so glad I picked EPS 16plus to go all in on back in the 90’s. It’s still being discovered.

OUTSTANDING video, thank you. I'm contemplating spending $ on a TS-12 near me, shouldn't be buying stuff right now but I love deep and old digital synths / workstations and this really looks amazing. I did briefly play one years ago and was very surprised by how modern it sounded at the time. I think you've made my mind up anyway. Have been reading the PDF manual over too, what an excellent book. We've really lost the ability to make good manuals for products these days, only good one I've seen is for the little Arturia Microfreak. Anyway it's a pity the TS-12 don't have poly aftertouch but if I can fix my ESQ-1 I can't midi them together. Main disappointment for me looking at the TS manual is the lack of resonance on the filters. Even Bob Yannes' SID chip in the C64 had multimode resonant filters. Have you found that limiting at all? I'd enjoy making a sound from a normal waveform and a pre-processed resonant version of that waveform and with the complex architecture of the of the TS I could no doubt cross fade between the resonant and non resonant versions with the modwheel or channel aftertouch :) Anyway thanks for the effort on this video, the folks over at Ensoniq would be pleased if they were still there :)

great thanks robin ... I've learnt something today

Wow, this is rad! I don't own the original machine, but this feels almost like you've unlocked an industrial-themed hidden-mission in the side quests of a beloved game. I couldn't come up with better sounds for a cyperpunk nightmare.

Hi! With this wonderful synthesizer, the Swedish super duo of ROXETTE, created the legendary song "The Look", N°1 in 32 countries in the world, (Record!!..) including USA, and ITALY!!! The sound of the song "The Look" is truly something exceptional, the atmosphere they have managed to create is truly Incredible, even listening to it today one is left speechless!!!

Why piss away Billions of dollars on going to Mars when one can just close their eyes & listen to this. Terrifyingly beautiful. Sell these patches for music therapy. We could all use it. Thanks for giving us this 👍

The “B-Roll” tracks for the video are awesome and very infectious, as always. Any intel if these are or can be found on a similar way on the SQ-80?

Awesome video! Love the tricks on the evolving sound section. Great atmospherics

I have two ts12s, my best friend for writing, and a back up. I love the ts10,12.

Very cool demo of this - I've had two ESQ's and now a SQ80. It was my first 'real' synth and I have spent an insane amount of time programming it - without a doubt, the most intuitive, flexible, fat and feature-rich synth from that era. Cmon, who else offered 3 oscillators and a sequencer back then! Those waves are wacky, I will have to let my buddy know who I gave my ESQ to! (Still in the family!). Thanks for the clear demo of the hidden waves.

Hi.. i want to make arpeggio on Ts10, like " Hungry like the wolf" Duran Duran song, it is possible to recreate it on hyperwave form? Thx

In 1990 I spent whole nights doing these things beautiful video beautiful memories

Quiero ver el tutorial en espańol

Tough!

I love that TS10-MEGAWAVE, very Korg Wavestation like!

I’m wondering if any of this stuff is possible on the EPS classic…seems like mixing and blending waves for soundscapes and stuff might not be as easy on the EPS classic vs other Ensoniq pieces including the Mirage

You really have a magic hand, my friend, that makes this synth shine.