Posted By
TLC
on 2010-07-28
10:42:19
|  Re: the chipophone
Hehe...  I should probably learn to play piano "well" ( = at all) to avoid coming through ridiculous first  . ...And well, I should have mentioned that I do admire LA's ability to cook all ingredients together in such a nice way (experiments, gear, playing tunes and finally making a nice video of that). I did stop experimenting with the ESQ-1 myself shortly after discussing things about/concerning it with you back then... I could say "as usual", but anyway... I know the possibility is there; the synth mimics the structure of the SID pretty well (it's a hybrid subtractive synth with digital oscillators + controls + waveforms, with analog filters + mixing, just as the SID is), ...and it also really behaves like that in practice, at least after some experimenting. So if someone's after a synth to play sort-of authentic chiptune instruments, but doesn't really want / lacks the ability to tinker with microcontrollers and electronics, the ESQ-1 (and it's extended version, the SQ-80) might be a viable "alternative" (say, poor man's Chipophone in this regard...). It used to be relatively cheap, too (it's not a highly rated synth; it used to cost far less than a DX-7, or a Roland Juno series synth, or the other highly rated synths).
Edit: excerpt from a discussion I've just found while looking up midi and/or ESQ-1 tools for Linux
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/printview.php?t=158292&page=5
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c_huelsbeck - Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:07 pm
STR8DSP wrote:
Chris: Is this the synth you used for Giana Sisters, and Turrican?
Yes... Giana was pure SID chip though, but the ESQ1 Keyboard was my inspiration for a lot of tunes...
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Didn't know I was just hitting the nail on the head... :-D Looks like Chris has been used to composing tunes on an ESQ-1 synth, even in the early years of creating his famous C64 hits.
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