▽ Coming Soon from Cherry Audio: Still the ① ▽

[Sandra F]

Hope this will be the VFX, but it was not the first digital synth for many people… so ESQ 1 makes more sense. However, I loved VFX!

[Teksonik]

Aside from the constantly dead battery, the noisy key action, and the buttons that either stopped working or got pushed into the chassis, the VFX wasn't actually that bad.

I loved the keyboard action (and poly aftertouch) but mine had a horrible clack at the bottom of the keystroke. It was like playing a snare drum with every keystroke.

Hope this will be the VFX, but it was not the first digital synth for many people… so ESQ 1 makes more sense. However, I loved VFX!

Unfortunately you're probably right. I doubt the VFX was "everyone's first keyboard" but the ESQ-1 was ubiquitous. Everybody I knew had one and while it wasn't my first keyboard it was one of my favorites at the time.

But hey an old man can dream can't he? I'd be all over a VFX emulation but it would be hard to justify buying an ESQ emulation already owning the SQ80V.

Even if they add the VFX Transwaves an ESQ won't be the same architecture as the VFX. Maybe it will be a mashup of the SD-1 as Gamma predicted.

At least this will be the first Cherry Audio teaser that actually has me exited......

[mholloway]

Really don't see the point of a Cherry ESQ-1 plugin when Arturia's SQ80-V covers that ground comprehensively. There's really no way to make it "better" soooo...

[4_the masses]

Really don't see the point of a Cherry ESQ-1 plugin when Arturia's SQ80-V covers that ground comprehensively. There's really no way to make it "better" soooo...

Also how many devs keep on releasing Roland Jupiters? Why don't these companies think of different instruments. Yamaha is a good example, only the CS80 gets flogged to death by so many, How about more of the CS family?

[Teksonik]

Really don't see the point of a Cherry ESQ-1 plugin when Arturia's SQ80-V covers that ground comprehensively. There's really no way to make it "better" soooo...

I really don't see the point of them doing yet another analog emulation since there are millions of them already that cover every bit of analog ground multiple times. (How many MiniMoog emulations are there and so on?)

I'm just happy they're giving a hybrid digital synth some attention (if it does indeed end up being an Ensoniq synth but the clues are pretty strong).

As for making it "better" they could add more Oscs and all the extra waveforms as found in the VFX/SD. We'll have to wait and see what they release.