{"product_id":"cherry-audio-ensoniq-esq-1","title":"Cherry Audio Ensoniq ESQ-1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"Cherry Audio | Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YAsD3GOC-aI\" height=\"713\" width=\"1429\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEnsoniq ESQ-1 by Cherry Audio is a landmark virtual synthesizer that captures the essence and iconic sounds of the classic ESQ-1 polyphonic hybrid digital\/analog synthesizer, perfectly timed for celebration of its 40th anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis plug-in features the original 32 waveforms, allowing it to faithfully recreate the complex, evolving, and richly textured sounds of the 1986 ESQ-1 in software form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAdditionally, it comes with advanced features designed for today's musicians and producers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIts elegant design incorporates extensive modulation options, rhythmic pattern generation, and enhanced performance capabilities through polyphonic aftertouch and MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEnsoniq ESQ-1 also features a library of nearly 400 exceptional presets, including the original factory presets from the hardware, highlighting the best of both classic and all-new sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Cherry Audio partnered with Creative Technology, the current owner of the Ensoniq intellectual property, to obtain official licensing for the original 32 ESQ-1 waveforms for this release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEqually important, we meticulously emulated the sonic signature and behavior of the original hardware's legendary analog filters provided by the renowned CEM3379 IC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe also precisely recreated its four DCAs, four independent multistage envelopes, three LFOs, amplitude modulation, oscillator sync, and expanded its modulation system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIts accuracy is such that the ESQ-1 software supports drag-and-drop import of individual patches and patch banks from ESQ-1 SysEx files, or directly via MIDI from the hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAdditionally, the software can export SysEx patch files that are compatible with the original hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEnsoniq's ESQ-1 was a powerful synthesizer, but it required users to program much of its functionality via a letterbox vacuum-fluorescent display, soft buttons, and a data slider.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn contrast, Cherry Audio's ESQ-1 brings the controls and visualization directly to the surface, enabling users to easily edit settings across multiple pages and gain a more comprehensive understanding of its powerful signal path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCherry Audio's ESQ-1 features a highly optimized stereo dual-layer architecture that supports an astounding 32 polyphonic voices per layer, enabling multitimbral split keyboard and dual-stacked modes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive modulation matrix includes four slots with user-friendly click-to-assign functionality and offers dozens of source and destination options.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe built-in arpeggiator and 16x4 programmable polyphonic step sequencer are both syncable and transposable, featuring flexible humanize settings and macro motions for patterns that go far beyond the original hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eESQ-1 also features three independent effect chains and provides 20 studio-quality effects for chains that can be customized, saved, recalled, and shared with other Cherry Audio synthesizers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnsoniq ESQ-1 by Cherry Audio is more than a nostalgic tribute to what was the first synthesizer for many musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt masterfully reimagines this iconic workstation as a fresh, inspiring tool to help today's producers explore both the musical past and new, uncharted horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFeatures\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eAn exacting emulation of the sounds and functionality of the original Ensoniq ESQ-1 hybrid digital-analog synthesizer released in 1986\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eEngineered by Cherry Audio with comprehensive circuit and behavior modeling techniques to provide unparalleled accuracy and exclusive compatibility with the original hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eExpertly designed and rendered user interface organized into five context-sensitive sections: Play, Edit, Modulation, Envelopes, and Sequencer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eThree digital oscillators per voice, individually animated in the interface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eUtilizes the original 32 ESQ-1 waveforms, licensed from Creative Technology, in four categories: Basic and Noise, Samples, Additive\/Formant, and Band Limited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eOscillator sync and amplitude modulation (AM) options for additional rich harmonics and aggressive, metallic, and bell-like timbres\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eVoice Modes: Mono Legato and Mono Retrig (with note priority), Unison, Polyphonic, and MPE, with detune and portamento and glissando modes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eHighly optimized, massive stereo dual-layer voicing architecture with up to 32 polyphonic voices per layer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eKeyboard split and stacked layer modes allow two simultaneously playable layers, with separate per-layer controls for all parameters, including synthesis, modulation, patterns, and effects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003ePrecision modeling of the Curtis CEM3379 analog resonant low-pass filter (4-pole 24dB\/oct), expanded with 2-pole 12dB\/oct low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass options\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eThree LFOs for each layer, each with tempo sync, reset, and human timing variation options, delay, and 18 possible modulation assignments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eFour independent multistage (four levels, four rates) envelopes with velocity stages, visualized with click-and-drag handles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eExceptionally comprehensive four-slot modulation matrix with macros and simple click-to-assign functionality: 41 sources (with MPE options) and 85 destinations, including ESQ-1's integrated arpeggiator, sequencer, and effects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eEnhanced expressive performance options with compatible MIDI controllers through channel aftertouch, polyphonic aftertouch, and a new, more flexible MPE system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eIndependent per layer arpeggiators with four pattern modes - Arp, Leap, Order, Random - with swing, chance, and feel to add degrees of randomness to patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eSyncable and transposable per layer 16x4 polyphonic step sequencers for notes and modulations, with four independently assignable macro motions and 33 presets, humanize options, with precision clock and step synchronization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e350 professionally designed presets in 15 categories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eAlso includes the 40 original ESQ-1 hardware preset patches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eSysEx compatibility with the original hardware: drag-and-drop import of individual patches and patch banks from ESQ-1 SysEx files, or directly via MIDI from the hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eExport SysEx patch files from the software compatible with the original hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eCherry Audio's acclaimed Effects system, with three independent customizable effects chains, one for each layer plus the global layer, and an individual effects modulator for each layer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e20 studio-quality effects that can be arranged, saved, and recalled within their effects chains, which are interchangeable with other Cherry Audio synthesizers:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eBBD Flanger, Compressor, Digital Delay, Digital Reverb, Distortion \u0026amp;amp; EQ, Dual Delay, Dual Ensemble, Dual Phaser, Envelope Filter, Flanger \u0026amp;amp; Chorus, Galactic Reverb, Lo-Fi, Lushverb, Ring Modulator, Seven Band EQ, Spring Reverb, and Tape Echo.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eNew in Mercury-8 are DCO Chorus, Panner, and Pulser\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eMini UI effects control tray for on\/off, solo, bipolar modulator amount slider, and dry\/wet mix for each effect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eGlobal FX on\/off, level, and stereo expand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eStandalone virtual instrument and plug-in versions included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eUser-adjustable oversampling control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eComplete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping (Preset and Global)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eCherry Audio's popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Cherry Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default 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