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A number of Commodore audio engineers went on to work at Ensoniq - itself founded by SID creator Bob Yannes - and their 1986 'killer' synth, the Ensoniq ESQ-1 (
by fractallyte 9y ago
A number of Commodore audio engineers went on to work at Ensoniq - itself founded by SID creator Bob Yannes - and their 1986 'killer' synth, the Ensoniq ESQ-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_ESQ-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_ESQ-1), can be considered a successor to the SID.
It had some of the characteristic SID sound, but now much more refined. Beneath that familiar (and far more accessible) MIDI keyboard was an 8 bit synth (https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/emulate-an-ensoniq-esq-1.226960/#post-1312520 https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/emulate-an-...).