Ensoniq SQ-80 Cross Wave Synthesizer
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Vintage Ensoniq SQ-80 Synthesizer and Hybrid road case. I purchased this keyboard new in 1986 along with the road case and the sale includes the original manual, power cord and floppy disks containing many interesting programs for this great keyboard. This unit has been sidelined by my more technically advanced synthesizers but it still has one of the most elegant user interfaces that I have ever had the pleasure to work with. The layout of the keyboard and sequencer is a work of art and very easy to use. I cannot say that about my other admittedly more capable keyboards (Triton, Kurzweil, etc.). Even Ensoniq had a hard time following up with a better interface on the SQ and ZR models. The sequencer alone is worth the price of admission. It is the only one I have ever used that is actually easy to use but robust enough to compose complete songs. For those who are not familiar are some high level specs: · 8 Voice polytimbral Cross Wave Synthesizer w/MIDI · 80 Character fluorescent display · 40 Internal programs · 3 Digital waveforms per voice (multi-sampled or synthetic) · 75 multi-sampled waveforms, Transient Attack and Inharmonic loops stored in memory · 880 Kb floppy disk for loading and storing programs, waveforms and sequences · 61 note (C-C) weighted keyboard (velocity sensitive with polyphonic after-touch o Programmable
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