Some of the Ensoniq chips were from the Commodore 64. The founding team of Ensoniq came from Commodore. A better version of the SID chip sits inside Ensoniq's, and that chip alone was arguably responsible for whole genre's of music to be born (looking at you jungle and DnB and chiptune) because you could do 8bit samples and synthesis in 8 track 'trackers' like octamed all day.... This is going so far back. It was really like having a super power when musicians with much deeper pockets were just figuring out midi.
I was RZA’s keyboard salesman in 92-93 at Sam Ash when he came in to buy an Ensoniq EPS16+ and I told him to wait because the ASR 10 was coming out . I told him it didn’t sound as good as the Akais (unanimous opinion in the store) but that it promised future 16 track digital recording which never quite materialized until the product was extinct. RZA put that sampler on the map but trust me, there was a reason why Akai cost much more. All Ensoniqs had a cheesy sound compared to Emu, Akai or Roland. The SP1200 had “good grit “.. Not the Ensoniq IMO . I also suggested and sold Moby his Yamaha SY 85.
@@calbeats5409 No clue and I wouldn’t touch it if I did. Bitwig sampler for example blows it away as does Beatmaker 3 fir IPad. Al’so Serrano sampler and the new Reason 12 sampler. All of them are better
@@calbeats5409 I’m just saying that RZA happened to use the ASR. It just didn’t sound as good as say AKAi or Roland Samplers or the SP 1200 IMO. Software that emulates the emulator sp1200 is your best bet I think. The ASR won’t make you sound like RZA
@@WyattLite-n-inn I don’t want to sound like RZA, I’m gonna be using a Korg Triton Plug-In and I want it to sound authentic so I’m thinking of running it through sampler emulators. I heard the ASR-10 had the best tone and that The Neptune’s used it to make the Triton sound better. So I assumed an ASR-10 emulation would be best. I am purchasing an Akai S950 emulator plug-in and TAL DAC which is supposed to emulate a few samplers. So maybe that’s all I need.
I agree with the producers interviewed, I swear by my old Ensoniq ASR-10. The filtering functions, effects, and 16-bit sampling makes my joints sound big and crunchy. Boom-bap material, real heads know!
Im glad to have found this vid,In 92 i moved to VA and met some friends and we started a crew called the ADDICTS! Well I never understood how to make a beat cause all i knew was with a cassette tape rec,stop,Rewind and loop a beat! when I met them he was using an ENSONIQ MIRAGE rack lol talk about no screen well that was my 1st try with samples and beats! about a year later my other boy upgraded and grabbed an ENSONIQ ASR-10 keyboard and i swear to yall,that board changed my life,and i learned how to control that beast! Boy our beats were so perfec and too easy to learn t with that machine I instantly wanted one but brand new was like 3gs! Since then ive copped REASON 2.5,a red ENSONIQ ASR-X which is a peice of sht,a MOTIF6 classic and a MV_8800 which has been my go primary peice! I still wanna go back to this ASR10 cause its still relevant in 2016 for real! Heres a little hint for my hiphop heads, the reason 1990s hip hop has its own sound is this,how many BITS your machine used at the time,hes right technology was only at a certain point back then but 1990s samplers sounded crunchey only because it uses 12 bits people,my Roland MV8800 uses 16,my motif6 uses 20bits! the 1st nintendo only used 8 bits! thats why that mpc 60 has its own sound! alota machines today have an effect mode that resembles a low bit sound or LOW FI! If your a sample head your gonna want this machine still today! I loved it then in 1992 and i still want one of my own in 2016! nuff said peace!Hhey I hear what your sayin Jabaar!
Dope. I actually have the Grand Father to the ASR10 which is the Ensoniq Mirage DSK. I have buddies who get the same feel as the ASR10 with a Roland W30. So, basically it comes down to the producer as well. I can basically get on anything and start producing.
I remember going to Sam Ash in Edison, NJ ('93-'94) and the salesman showed my an SP1200, and the MPC but as soon as he played the "rap demo" on the ASR10 I was like yeah I want this. I still remember the demo "Gift of Gab" Ensoniq's in the house with the ASR10... Ensoniq is ahead lf it's time with the ASR10. I was sold.
Jake One is west coast college hoops. Everyone sleepin when the game comes on... never gets talked about. Always gets snubbed when its time to select the best. I hope he made a bunch of money from the drake shit.
Somebody please explain to me how the ASR10 revolutionized the culture of Hip Hop production. MPC's and SP12/1200's have always been the standards and before the ASR10 there were rack mount samplers like the S900 and the S1000. Primo did his first two albums on a S950 with a Alesis HR16 as a trigger. These machines are all tools to get a job done and if you have a preference for one over the other, cool. But please don't start with the Hip Hop revisionist history with the ASR10 as the center of some breakthrough in Hip Hop production. And before anybody asks, yes I have used the ASR10. It's cool and the recording feature was dope but I prefer the MPC. That's me! Carry on!
Sometimes I use my MP because I need the drum machine features for drum fills our just a little more bounce I guess. But all my samples go through my ASR first. For filtering pitch up high then resample into MP to save mass amounts of sample time. The decay on ASR is way superior to MP or SP so all my drums get edited in the ASR then goes through more editing in the MP. But as long as I double time on the ASR I get almost the same swing as I would on the MPC. Just takes trial and error before you get it. Is any MP better than the ASR? No way, if I’m not making the beat on the ASR it in someway is still be used with every beat
It's funny, but the ASR-10 shits all over the SP1200 as far as its capability for sound design. Hell, even the ASR-X blows the SP1200 away. The SP1200 is the most overrated instrument of all time.You used to see used SP1200's and SP12's going for a couple hundred bucks back in the early 2000's. SP1200's are all about BLING now. They're become fetishized by millennial producers for numerous reasons, mostly because they were used on many seminal albums in the late 80's and early 90's. What people often fail to realize is that they were used because that's all most Street level producers could afford and learn to use. Like most Hip-Hop production techniques throughout the years, it was word of mouth. I think it says everything that many old school producers jumped from using the SP1200 to the ASR-10 when it came out. AKAI MPCs have the tightest sequencers, but the samplers themselves are very meat and potatoes. They are little more than playback machines. The best "all-in-one" workstations for making beats are the ASR-10 and the KURZWEIL K-SERIES. KURZWEILS are even deeper than the ENSONIQS, but they don't have the same organic sound, and they don't give you as many options for loop manipulation. No other samplers do what the ENSONIQS can do.
The machines are cool, But your talking about HIP HOP and you couldn't find Nobody Black to talk to that used one of those machines? Com' on Man Are you kidding me.........................That some BS................
3 years later and I'm still waiting for Part 2...
Same here. But now it’s been 5 years ☹️
Yeah we want part 2. 😭
7 years! lol
7 years & 2 weeks here, i aint even watched the first one yet!
8 years now !
Some of the Ensoniq chips were from the Commodore 64. The founding team of Ensoniq came from Commodore. A better version of the SID chip sits inside Ensoniq's, and that chip alone was arguably responsible for whole genre's of music to be born (looking at you jungle and DnB and chiptune) because you could do 8bit samples and synthesis in 8 track 'trackers' like octamed all day.... This is going so far back. It was really like having a super power when musicians with much deeper pockets were just figuring out midi.
I remember watch Alchemist with an ASR and instantly wanted one. Still do to this day just to have.
I'm a MPC- and Akai-Guy (S900) but the ASR has definitely a place in our Hip Hop history! It's a dope machine, without doubt!
I was RZA’s keyboard salesman in 92-93 at Sam Ash when he came in to buy an Ensoniq EPS16+ and I told him to wait because the ASR 10 was coming out . I told him it didn’t sound as good as the Akais (unanimous opinion in the store) but that it promised future 16 track digital recording which never quite materialized until the product was extinct. RZA put that sampler on the map but trust me, there was a reason why Akai cost much more. All Ensoniqs had a cheesy sound compared to Emu, Akai or Roland. The SP1200 had “good grit “.. Not the Ensoniq IMO . I also suggested and sold Moby his Yamaha SY 85.
Hey man, you know your stuff. Is there any software plug-ins or samplers that come close to the ASR-10 character??
@@calbeats5409 No clue and I wouldn’t touch it if I did. Bitwig sampler for example blows it away as does Beatmaker 3 fir IPad. Al’so Serrano sampler and the new Reason 12 sampler. All of them are better
@@WyattLite-n-inn
Thanks for the input! Are you saying new software is better sounding than old hardware?!
@@calbeats5409 I’m just saying that RZA happened to use the ASR. It just didn’t sound as good as say AKAi or Roland Samplers or the SP 1200 IMO. Software that emulates the emulator sp1200 is your best bet I think. The ASR won’t make you sound like RZA
@@WyattLite-n-inn
I don’t want to sound like RZA, I’m gonna be using a Korg Triton Plug-In and I want it to sound authentic so I’m thinking of running it through sampler emulators. I heard the ASR-10 had the best tone and that The Neptune’s used it to make the Triton sound better. So I assumed an ASR-10 emulation would be best. I am purchasing an Akai S950 emulator plug-in and TAL DAC which is supposed to emulate a few samplers. So maybe that’s all I need.
I agree with the producers interviewed, I swear by my old Ensoniq ASR-10. The filtering functions, effects, and 16-bit sampling makes my joints sound big and crunchy. Boom-bap material, real heads know!
"It's kind of like hip-hop, we make the best out of some bullshit." dope. great story, thanks!
Im glad to have found this vid,In 92 i moved to VA and met some friends and we started a crew called the ADDICTS! Well I never understood how to make a beat cause all i knew was with a cassette tape rec,stop,Rewind and loop a beat! when I met them he was using an ENSONIQ MIRAGE rack lol talk about no screen well that was my 1st try with samples and beats!
about a year later my other boy upgraded and grabbed an ENSONIQ ASR-10 keyboard and i swear to yall,that board changed my life,and i learned how to control that beast! Boy our beats were so perfec and too easy to learn t with that machine I instantly wanted one but brand new was like 3gs! Since then ive copped REASON 2.5,a red ENSONIQ ASR-X which is a peice of sht,a MOTIF6 classic and a MV_8800 which has been my go primary peice! I still wanna go back to this ASR10 cause its still relevant in 2016 for real! Heres a little hint for my hiphop heads, the reason 1990s hip hop has its own sound is this,how many BITS your machine used at the time,hes right technology was only at a certain point back then but 1990s samplers sounded crunchey only because it uses 12 bits people,my Roland MV8800 uses 16,my motif6 uses 20bits! the 1st nintendo only used 8 bits! thats why that mpc 60 has its own sound! alota machines today have an effect mode that resembles a low bit sound or LOW FI! If your a sample head your gonna want this machine still today! I loved it then in 1992 and i still want one of my own in 2016! nuff said peace!Hhey I hear what your sayin Jabaar!
ASR 10 is in the house!
Dope. I actually have the Grand Father to the ASR10 which is the Ensoniq Mirage DSK. I have buddies who get the same feel as the ASR10 with a Roland W30. So, basically it comes down to the producer as well. I can basically get on anything and start producing.
THE PEOPLE NEED MORE EPISODES
''Eps Classic'' & ''Asr X'' are the best samplers ever made!
I remember going to Sam Ash in Edison, NJ ('93-'94) and the salesman showed my an SP1200, and the MPC but as soon as he played the "rap demo" on the ASR10 I was like yeah I want this. I still remember the demo "Gift of Gab" Ensoniq's in the house with the ASR10... Ensoniq is ahead lf it's time with the ASR10. I was sold.
@Haze Entertainment The SP 1200 is a dope machine but as the years went on the sound was going less grimey and more 16 bit / 44k.
😂I used to go to that Sam Ash in Edison and mess around with that SP1200. It was in the front of the store. 😎
They greatest sampler ever created.
Loved this Machine! It was a Beast! $2600 bones
Recomiendo este sampler a todo aquel que quiera ser feliz en la vida mientras haces música con el alma.
Saludos desde Catalunya.
0:28 he better than most rappers today
You can understand him.
That first beat is my fav neptunes joint
This video is interesting cause I really hate making beats on a keyboard. Everyone had there own preference
It's the one that eludes me like the plague. I have the 16 plus and TS10. It is the Crown Jewel.
anyone know the track name in the background, that starts at 7:50 ?
After seeing many videos on how Jake One makes beats and samples with the ASR-10, i really would love to own one and learn how to use it
You should buy one
+MultiTechnoDog I'm a broke nigga right now lol. They still rather expensive too.
+601 VCR Yea they are I just bought one today.
Jake One is west coast college hoops. Everyone sleepin when the game comes on... never gets talked about. Always gets snubbed when its time to select the best. I hope he made a bunch of money from the drake shit.
The ASR 10's chopping is like the MPC 3000's
True
track name at 7:50? I fell into it, help!!!!
Its so good
ASR was slept on.
is the gunshot + "perfect" the kanye sample?
“Make sense outta some bullshit” 👈😆
Dude said from "the person" he learned from instead of name dropping him. Lol. Classic no credit giving once you get somewhere
My next board. The hunt is on
I have it. 4 years later.
track @ 2:25?
Somebody please explain to me how the ASR10 revolutionized the culture of Hip Hop production. MPC's and SP12/1200's have always been the standards and before the ASR10 there were rack mount samplers like the S900 and the S1000. Primo did his first two albums on a S950 with a Alesis HR16 as a trigger. These machines are all tools to get a job done and if you have a preference for one over the other, cool. But please don't start with the Hip Hop revisionist history with the ASR10 as the center of some breakthrough in Hip Hop production. And before anybody asks, yes I have used the ASR10. It's cool and the recording feature was dope but I prefer the MPC. That's me! Carry on!
Sometimes I use my MP because I need the drum machine features for drum fills our just a little more bounce I guess. But all my samples go through my ASR first. For filtering pitch up high then resample into MP to save mass amounts of sample time. The decay on ASR is way superior to MP or SP so all my drums get edited in the ASR then goes through more editing in the MP. But as long as I double time on the ASR I get almost the same swing as I would on the MPC. Just takes trial and error before you get it. Is any MP better than the ASR? No way, if I’m not making the beat on the ASR it in someway is still be used with every beat
Dude sounds like Ron Jeremy LOL
How ALCCHEMIST isn't in here is beyond me.
love floppy disk data
Check out world supreme Hip-Hop the Freshco and Miz story
New York
Rebuild and modification of my ASR-10 (page can be translated): luthierelectronico.blogspot.com/2013/11/ensoniqasr10.html
pro tools is on the way, i wonder if i master that am i now a engineer??? lol jk!!!!
is this a documentary or a fucking advertisment?
Kelvin Grove for a product that hasn't been commercially available for 25 years?
It's funny, but the ASR-10 shits all over the SP1200 as far as its capability for sound design. Hell, even the ASR-X blows the SP1200 away. The SP1200 is the most overrated instrument of all time.You used to see used SP1200's and SP12's going for a couple hundred bucks back in the early 2000's. SP1200's are all about BLING now. They're become fetishized by millennial producers for numerous reasons, mostly because they were used on many seminal albums in the late 80's and early 90's. What people often fail to realize is that they were used because that's all most Street level producers could afford and learn to use. Like most Hip-Hop production techniques throughout the years, it was word of mouth. I think it says everything that many old school producers jumped from using the SP1200 to the ASR-10 when it came out. AKAI MPCs have the tightest sequencers, but the samplers themselves are very meat and potatoes. They are little more than playback machines. The best "all-in-one" workstations for making beats are the ASR-10 and the KURZWEIL K-SERIES. KURZWEILS are even deeper than the ENSONIQS, but they don't have the same organic sound, and they don't give you as many options for loop manipulation. No other samplers do what the ENSONIQS can do.
Im happy wirh my SP 1200 and S950
If the ASR didnt use floppies itd be a lot better. Ill stick with my keyboard + mpc 1000
The machines are cool, But your talking about HIP HOP and you couldn't find Nobody Black to talk to that used one of those machines? Com' on Man Are you kidding me.........................That some BS................
why does it matter if theyre balck? they write for black artists so what does that say
Too many pink ppl...I'm outta here...
Lol
The ASR 10's chopping is like the MPC 3000's