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Great showcase. Thank you very much. I was impressed by the flexibility of the LFOs as well. I would never think of modulating an LFO with another LFO, nor did I realize that the circuit lines were missing because they're all interchangeable.

Great intro music 😎 and excellent to hear the baby D series tones 👍

Amazing stuff mate!

The difference between ring modulation and amplitude modulation was truly a mystery to me. The specific model I know of is the KAWAI K1 series. This model is equipped with amplitude modulation, and many other analog synths have a ring modulation function. The explanation of ring modulation is that it extracts the sum and difference from two inputs, while amplitude modulation is when you modulate the amplitude with a high frequency oscillator, not an LFO, and can generate sideband harmonics, resulting in new harmonics. Yamaha's CS series analog synthesizers had a high upper limit LFO modulation speed, which allowed them to generate sideband harmonics, making ring modulation a non-necessary feature.

Looks like on the Sax Card there are only 4 multi-samples of sax sounds. Tenor soft and hard and alto soft and hard. Do other cards have as well so few additional samples to the internal array?

How do I change tuning? Eg.. I'm playing an acoustic piano which is not I'm concert pitch and is not in tune with the sound Canvas 🤔

i like the ambient and the dark voice. Thanks

Who is currently playing? The red and blue or the unmodified original image?

It would be well worth getting an earthed anti static mat to work on. Although carpet is soft and useful for taking things apart, for working on boards you want to reduce any possible static build up. If a mat is not suitable then an earthed wrist band is helpful.

good video. I recently repaired a D-20, probably the most annoying repair I've done! Horrible cable connectors, awful layout and very prone to chip and component failures. All working now and it was only £25 so can't complain. You had the right approach - Frankenstein 2 or more together to get a working synth. Do you still have the spares D-20 case parts? I'd buy the end cap right side if you want to sell it.

My OCD brain requires me to inform you that the ESQ1 was manufactured around 1987, and the Mirage was the first Ensoniq product that was manufactured in 1985.

This video is the best demonstration I've seen of this synth. I'm really excited to try mine - I was just gifted one by a friend.

wait, so desolder a cable then resolder it to the new lcd each one like that? 3:00 What about desoldering all the cables first, then resolder to the new lcd?

You can test buttons by entering a test mode, 'K2061 Scanner Diagnostics'. At least, I can on my K2000 V3, OS 3.87. In prog mode, press 4,5,6 simultaneously. It will cycle display of all LEDS, then enter the test mode, where the battery voltage and wheel centre values are displayed. Any button/key presses or control movements are displayed.

This is apparently for OS v3.5 ROMset. My ESQ-1 is running v2.0 so the MIDI screen menu is not the same as his. I cannot load the esq1-factory-presets.syx on either MIDI channel 01 or 16 using MIDI-OX. v2.0 only has options to send/receive from either a tape or from a Mirage over MIDI. Bummer. Now just waiting til next week for the v3.5 ROMs to arrive...no love this weekend other than 40 patches of BRASS 1 hehehehe.

Nice, sounds like a bit of a beast!

Umm, i hardly hear any difference.

Thank you good sir!

Love the content. Thanks for sharing.

5 Years! I think the longest I've had between getting and repairing was about 2 years - you win. My rule is if it's still in bits after about 6 months, give it another go...then re-ebay it for spares. The mainboard did look pretty corroded, maybe a spare board will come up to swap over, D-10's are still pretty cheap for parts. I have one of those desoldering stations, very handy but I find the gun does clog up far too often if the old solder is claggy and turning into paste - which it usually is on older gear, I keep the little cleaning rod handy.

i just got my s20 and it powers up r16 shows up on display but after some minutes the characters just start scrambling fast do you know what may be the cause?

Does the rack have the same sound banks as the SQ1. I have the SQ1 but was looking to maybe pickup the rack to take up less room.

Hi, can you explain me how to open this editor?

How do repair the sound because mine came no sound of it how do i repair that

The best way to figure out effects is to play the knobs and listen. After that you can look into the theory.

Love the technical rundown, always good!

the outro tune is nice; love that retro vibe

Are they setuped different? On some presets they are pretty different, modulation deph, attacks

Mine is coming in a few days - really excited now I see it used with a good editor and that final tune was fantastic! Any idea where that CTRLR panel has disappeared to? Everything redirecting to github now and I can't find the old panels - thanks in advance!

Okay, definitely subscribing. I have an ESQ-1, and while it’s a delight to play, programming is another story. I’m still trying to figure it all out.

yeah it sounds thin, like needs some saturation idunknw arturia ..i can here a good difference

whats the name of the electr. piano preset in the virtual cz? I cant find it!

Great video, what did you use to record this demo?

Thank you for the demonstration. I look forward to hearing your other videos. I’m looking for a VST like this instead of Hardware keyboards. Does this have on board the famous Vox Humana and Vox Humana with Cesar which Gary Nuwman is well known for using on a lot of his material? I’ve got a similar package from the App Store called Syntronik on board my iPad and indeed it is very good but I’m wondering if the VST you are showing is more advanced. I certainly look forward to seeing your other videos of you demonstrating the sounds on board.

This is so good!

I got pretty lucky. I just found one on marketplace and got it for $160. Looks like i eventually need to solder a new battery in it however

Magic.

When I select OSC 1 and try to cycle through different wave forms the sound doesn't change very much, or rather is just stays as whatever sound was selected from the internal bank before pressing OSC 1. In the manual it says to select a program labelled BASIC in the internal storage before selecting the OSC but I don't seem to have that option. Any idea why this might be or how I can fix it? Thank you so much for making these videos they are amazing!!

The only differens between the two is that the CZ-1 have stronger fundamental frequencies then CZ-V and that CZ-V have louder high-mid to high frequency harmonics then the CZ-1. Which to me gives the CZ-1 a more pleasant rounder sound plus that some of Arturias presets seem to have a slight detune between the oscillators. My guess is that it’s either a programming issue of the Arturia presets or that CZ-V waveforms can go a bit further with its phase distortion than the CZ-1. Either way it should be a quite easy fix for Arturia to make it sound identical. Nice comparison between the two 👍🏻

Can you have maybe an arrow or something pointing to which one is on? I'm not sure which one I'm listening to

This vid helped greatly. ESQ was not working properly and displaying another text on the screen and was not able to load patches. I had no clue if it had some major error, but I followed the steps in this video and it works as normal now!Relieved

Amazingly youtube knows that I bought the AIR synth bundle today for $10, great value haven' tried it yet but eh, $10? Can't go wrong..

@5:24 The intro to "Connection" by Elastica (& Wire)

this is much appreciated walkthrough. Just picked up the SQ80

Hi thanks for this - helped me unravel the mysteries - good video. I notice it's three years old now when you ask for similar voice synths. Are you aware of Emvoice One?

Do you know anything about the CZ5000?

hey man, i powered on mine and seems like the adaptor blew, any tips on checking if the actual machine is damaged? appreciate it 🙏🏻🙏🏻

After when you posted this video, 2 years ago, you probably know what ENH means now lol. The Behringer Wasp has been for ages now been my GOTO for fat bass sounds. I have a Roland Jd-xi and love it as a Groovebox style synth (I have an MC-303 as well), I think everyone that agrees that has one realises that it lacks in Analogue capabilities. This fills the gap for me

The best walk around video that I could find. You didn't just cover the pre sets. Such a standard thing these days - it seems. Therefore, it was refreshing to see someone explaining the function buttons and capabilities. Well done.

Which model sustain pedal are you using?