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[poonna]

Perhaps a wrong place to ask, and I haven't tried the ESQ-1 yet, but if I don't have any specific recollection of ESQ-1 sounds, what does it do better than Dreamsynth (which is supposedly influenced by similar synths)?

[Teksonik]

Perhaps a wrong place to ask, and I haven't tried the ESQ-1 yet, but if I don't have any specific recollection of ESQ-1 sounds, what does it do better than Dreamsynth (which is supposedly influenced by similar synths)?

It does ESQ-1 sounds better. Other than that it's a personal choice of which one is "better". Owning both might be an option as well....

[IvyBirds]

Perhaps a wrong place to ask, and I haven't tried the ESQ-1 yet, but if I don't have any specific recollection of ESQ-1 sounds, what does it do better than Dreamsynth (which is supposedly influenced by similar synths)?

Think of Dreamsynth as Cherry Audio’s modern 'Greatest Hits' of the 80s hybrid era—it's clean, massive, has a smooth 12dB Oberheim inspired filter, morphing oscillators, and as an added bonus whole extra string machine.

The ESQ-1 is a very realistic emulation of one specific 1980s synth. It brings the actual licensed 8-bit waveforms and, crucially, a highly accurate emulation of the Curtis CEM3379 analog filter along for the ride

If you don't have any nostalgia for the ESQ-1, the main thing you'd notice it 'does better' than Dreamsynth is low-end grit, character, and 8-bit lo-fi crunch. Dreamsynth is broad and beautiful; the ESQ-1 is lowfi and gritty, and beautifully rough around the edges

They actually compliment each other beautifully, and if you want 1980s style digital hybrid synthesis you should get both

[Teksonik]

Okay here's 29 edited presets from the first two Cartridges. I mostly added FX, bumped up the poly to 32, and added an Arp to some presets.

It's a lot of fun and I encourage everyone to tweak the cartridge presets to your own personal taste. Of course I've made a bunch of my own presets from Init and that's even more fun.

[Teksonik]

I've tried the Dreamsynth demo and it really never "spoke to me" even though I'm a huge fan of such synths but I should probably try it again. I just checked and my demo period has expired so I guess it won't be possible now.

Maybe it will pop up in a Humble Bundle one day.......

One thing I forgot to mention is that when saving edits to my custom bank a copy is also saved in the original location creating duplicates:

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I don't know if that's intended behavior or something I'm doing wrong but I thought I would bring it up either way.