KVR Audio

bwwd · Post by **bwwd** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:37 am

No,i just added reverb on some sounds and EQ on hihats and thats it

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:48 am

i get a 403 forbidden message if i try to go to speedyshare's website for some reason. any chance you could upload them somewhere else or youtube? (enjoyed your synth1 videos btw

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standalone · Post by **standalone** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:49 am

bwwd wrote:No,i just added reverb on some sounds and EQ on hihats and thats it

I see. They use to say that this plugin aliases quite a few, but those bells sound really good.

bwwd · Post by **bwwd** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:33 am

Here is the last one today i promise

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23421025/sq8girl.mp3

do_androids_dream i will upload all tracks to rapidshare for you now and i will edit this post.

OK here is rapidshare link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/407597463/SQ8Ltracks.zip

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:02 pm

I've got an ESQ-1 and I'd be more interested in a modern version (24 bit samples, more waveforms, oversampling etc) than I am an exact emulation. The original sounded great in it's day but now it's pretty nasty and not in a good way.............

bwwd · Post by **bwwd** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:12 pm

But this sounds nice ,with a bit of reverb and no other FX

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:59 pm

great stuff - thanks for uploading it to rapidshare

. i still can't believe how well it emulates the hardware. i love the vocal quality of the filtered white noise in sq8l7

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:55 pm

do_androids_dream wrote: love the vocal quality of the filtered white noise in sq8l7

Not sure what you mean by that, but if you are referring to the voice and choir sounds; there are actually two voice samples in the Ensoniq wavetables

Back in the days when I bought my ESQ-1 (I bought it new shortly after they came available) the choir sounds where among the reasons to get one (I was a member of a progrock band at that time

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Dave Polich · Post by **Dave Polich** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:59 pm

Teksonik wrote:I've got an ESQ-1 and I'd be more interested in a modern version (24 bit samples, more waveforms, oversampling etc) than I am an exact emulation. The original sounded great in it's day but now it's pretty nasty and not in a good way.............

That would defeat the whole purpose of an accurate emulation. The Ensoniq synths were
cool precisely because they actually sounded..well, terrible but in a cool way. Very
grainy. metallic, noisy - that was the vibe. A modern version would be a new synth,
not an Ensoniq emulation anymore.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:00 pm

Dave Polich wrote:The Ensoniq synths were cool precisely because they actually sounded..well, terrible but in a cool way.

EXACTLY

Z3R0T0N1N · Post by **Z3R0T0N1N** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:11 pm

Dave Polich wrote:
Teksonik wrote:I've got an ESQ-1 and I'd be more interested in a modern version (24 bit samples, more waveforms, oversampling etc) than I am an exact emulation. The original sounded great in it's day but now it's pretty nasty and not in a good way.............
That would defeat the whole purpose of an accurate emulation. The Ensoniq synths were
cool precisely because they actually sounded..well, terrible but in a cool way. Very
grainy. metallic, noisy - that was the vibe. A modern version would be a new synth,
not an Ensoniq emulation anymore.

was thinking the same thing, about it defeating the purpose.

But I don't think they sound terrible, not even terrible "in a cool way". I think they sound really good. Their filters were fairly musical, their waveforms were widely varied and flexible. Some of the string sounds you can get out of them are sublime, and as for good punchy, simple bass sounds I actually prefer these to the yamaha DX stuff.

But of course, "good" is pretty subjective in this particular context, so I don't mean that your opinion is at all invalid.

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:26 pm

crimsonwarlock wrote:
do_androids_dream wrote: love the vocal quality of the filtered white noise in sq8l7
Not sure what you mean by that, but if you are referring to the voice and choir sounds; there are actually two voice samples in the Ensoniq wavetables

Back in the days when I bought my ESQ-1 (I bought it new shortly after they came available) the choir sounds where among the reasons to get one (I was a member of a progrock band at that time ).

it's the sound that comes in immediately after the first chord at the beginning of the track. sounds like noise through a formant filter to me. doesn't strike me as a choir like sound - more like someone exhaling!

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:48 pm

do_androids_dream wrote:it's the sound that comes in immediately after the first chord at the beginning of the track. sounds like noise through a formant filter to me. doesn't strike me as a choir like sound - more like someone exhaling!

Ah yes, I get what you are at

... indeed not a vocal sample, and I thought it a pretty amazing sound as well.

BFunKu · Post by **BFunKu** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:13 am

Has the Commercial version of the SQ80 VSTi ever been released yet? It was suppose to be release like 2 years ago from what I remember?

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:12 am

iirc it was a student project. He's probably got a real job and no time for plugins or KVR.

SQ80 emulating VSTi available