The museum currently has an STe running music composition software to a nice sounding Yamaha CBX-T3 digitized instrument general midi generator. It was consumer oriented, more for accurate game sounds, not quite matching part of the exhibit's intention of showing professional music composition. An ESQ-M rack mount module was donated which we may use for additional sounds & demonstrating synthesizer subjects and as a nod to the people who started Ensoniq and made sound silicon coming from Commodore VIC and SID fame. I'm considering adding a music keyboard so that notes can get entered into the composition software. I'm inclined to make this an Ensonic keyboard due to local history. All the items mentioned are of interest for their keyboard as well as synth functions as you mention. Not quite sure where all this will lead. Eventually to a bigger treatment of computer music in the new museum I expect. On 10/21/2022 11:35 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
A few weeks ago there was a request for an Ensoniq ?Mirage? I think for the museum.
It's not a mirage, but I run a craigslist ad looking for broken synths to fix. For whatever strange reason like 80% of the emails I get are Ensoniqs. But besides that, someone has an EPS-1. I haven't sniffed out the asking price, but would this be something the museum would want? It is not general midi, but judging by youtube videos it sounds pretty okay. There are some PCBs on tendie to make multicarts for patches which could be cool. Sounds like it's something I could fix. They also said they had either a SQ2 or SQ-80 (can't remember which) but that one is working (no fun.)
Not sure the multitimbrality of it. I assume one sound at a time, so could make sequences on the Atari ST using like a Mirage for sampled gritty drums and the EPS-1 for lead/bass? Then an A frame stand for the true 80s.
Thoughts?
- Ethan