Here's a young Sam back in the Transoniq Hacker days:
▽ Coming Soon from Cherry Audio: Still the ① ▽
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- KVRAF
- 19896 posts since 16 Sep, 2001 from Las Vegas,USA
I won't be able to try the patches until morning but I'm sure they will be a wonderful blast from the past.
Here's a young Sam back in the Transoniq Hacker days:
Here's a young Sam back in the Transoniq Hacker days:
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None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- KVRian
- 823 posts since 27 Oct, 2011 from Pacific Northwest
Some tasty bass. I have also always enjoyed the ESQ-1 saw with filter/resonance and there are several good examples.
Also some patches are not so great which he kind of alluded to on the video.
Also some patches are not so great which he kind of alluded to on the video.
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- KVRAF
- 19896 posts since 16 Sep, 2001 from Las Vegas,USA
I've only gotten up to the letter G in the list and there are several very nice presets so far. As you say he did mention the fact that back in the day they were trying to emulate real instruments like Oboe because there was a demand for such sounds then and those patches don't hold up well today.
As with all the older ESQ 1 patches that were made for the hardware they do have the limitations of 8 note poly, no effects, and of course no Arp-Seq.
I find that adding some of the FX found in the Cherry Audio version really makes those old patches come to life. Bumping the Poly up from 8 to a higher number really helps them breathe especially Pads. I've been bumping them up to 32 poly because it doesn't seem to affect CPU demand that much.
I'd love to see Sam make some new presets for the more capable Cherry Audio version although I don't know if he'd be interested or have the time.
All in all the Syntaur patches are a great blast of nostalgia and really showcase how the ESQ-1 hardware sounded so thanks to everyone involved in giving them to us for free.....
As with all the older ESQ 1 patches that were made for the hardware they do have the limitations of 8 note poly, no effects, and of course no Arp-Seq.
I find that adding some of the FX found in the Cherry Audio version really makes those old patches come to life. Bumping the Poly up from 8 to a higher number really helps them breathe especially Pads. I've been bumping them up to 32 poly because it doesn't seem to affect CPU demand that much.
I'd love to see Sam make some new presets for the more capable Cherry Audio version although I don't know if he'd be interested or have the time.
All in all the Syntaur patches are a great blast of nostalgia and really showcase how the ESQ-1 hardware sounded so thanks to everyone involved in giving them to us for free.....
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- KVRist
- 64 posts since 27 Nov, 2006 from Houston, TX
I felt honored as a teen when Sam Mims featured one of my patches in the Transoniq Hacker. He would take reader submissions and add useful tweaks which is what he did with my patch--create a more predictable, consistent echo effect vs. the random one in the patch. Although his podcast no longer has regular episodes, it's a great listen - "Talking Synths".
Can't wait to check these out.
Can't wait to check these out.