Ensoniq ESQ Collection Sysex Library

Ensoniq was founded in the early 80’s by some engineers from Commodore. Ensoniq’s first product, a software drum machine, was aimed at the home computer market. One of Ensoniq’s co founders, was responsible for designing the Commodore 64’s three-voice synth chip. In 1982 he designed a portion of a PC that was similar to the sound synthesizer that ended up in the Amiga. It was this chip, the ‘Q chip’, that was used in the Mirage, the world’s first affordable sampler and the ESQ series.

A sysex is a binary file that stores a sequence of system exclusive MIDI information mirroring the memory of the device: to transfer it you need to hook your Ensoniq synth to a computer via a MIDI connection, then use one of the many sysex managers available for both Windows and MacOS to transfer each bank over.

DAW Users :

If you have the Arturia SQ-80V synth plugin, you can import the sysex patches files.

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