Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Started the return process and grabbed an SQ-80 off the bay instead.

ESQ-1/ESQ-m

Just got one and I immediately fell in love with it

The first thing I whipped up with an ESQ-m. This is just a single patch with some external compression and reverb.

ESQ-m test 1

Cracked it open and checked things out. Wires looked to be attached OK. Jiggling them a bit resulted in the volume fader actually causing things to be audible, so I don't really know what's up there. Still deciding whether to return it or not - I'm afraid this thing will up and fail if I breath on i...

I was horrified to think that this place went under just as I had stumbled upon it. Fight the power!

Just eBayed an ESQ-m and the front faders seem to have mostly busted in transport. Wiggling the volume fader seems to get it to connect every once in awhile. Data fader is in the same state. The action on the faders themselves doesn't feel broken, so I think maybe something just came loose. Think I ...

dddoherty@hotmail.com wrote:which parts of ur tunes are y'all inclined to pan?

All of them!

Well, ok, not anything in the low end.

animehair wrote:Personally I would never by a motif to use it as a VA synth...but thats my opinion.

Ah, but then you stick a PLG150-AN or 3 in there...

it has a normal sequencer though right? also check out this guy's real acoustic imitations with the ion, i almost find it unbelievable how realistic some of the sounds are. http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2005/11/alesis-ion-demos-by-kenneth-elhardt.html God damn it, I listened to that and now I'm l...

From my DSS-1 Support site, here is a demo of something along those lines. I think it may be 8 unison detuned oscillators, not 6. (Actually it's 16 with Osc2 running and detuned against Osc1!). It is also using some chorusing from the DDLs: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/trident_flanged_lead.mp3...

Been reading here for a couple months and finally decided to register, so I might as well throw my stuff up. This was all done with software in FL around 3 years ago - I've built up my cash reserves in the interim and have been ebaying some hardware the last couple months, hence all the coming here ...

You can format normal HD diskettes as DD. In a Windows command prompt: format a: /F:720 Don't know if that would be readable for the DSS-1 drive, but I would think so (worked in the 80s for my Tandy 1000, I think). I'd love to know if this works, as I'm looking at picking one of these beasts up. PS:...