source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 06:49:07 -0700 Subject: tunable synths From: Steve Curtin >Here in detail are the models (by manufacturer) : > >ENSONIQ >Mirage - Full keyboard, 256 parts per octave or > 4096/octave by entering all 60 notes > Requires Dick Lord's UPWARD CONCEPTS > alternative operating system disk or > Buzz Kimball's alternative OS disk. >ESQ-1, ESQ-M, SQ-80 - Only retunable within 12 notes > per octave. Details published in a 1986 > KEYBOARD magazine article. >VFX, VFX- SQ, TS-10 - Full keyboard, 768 parts per octave. Over 30 tunings in ROM. >EPS, EPS-16+, ASR-10 - Full keyboard, 768 parts > per octave. Tuning is stored on disk along > with the sound sample. >SQ-1, SQ-1R - NOT RETUNABLE! >Also, none of Ensoniq's dedicated piano modules are >retunable. To this I would add: MR-Rack, MR-61, MR-76 - Rack mount and full keyboard, 1536 parts per octave. Stores one global RAM user tuning that can be downloaded via MIDI Tuning Standard dump messages and edited on the fly with MTS note change. Over 40 tunings in ROM. >ESQ-1, ESQ-M, SQ-80, >SQ-1, SQ-1R - Can be retuned to different ET's with a coarse but sometimes usable resolution. See my series in the Transoniq Hacker http://www.transoniq.com/~trnsoniq/ April-June 1995 for details on tuning ALL the Ensoniq synths. Also see the web page (www.ensoniq.com) for general specs. regards, Steve Curtin Ensoniq Corp Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:25 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03670; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:26:41 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03677 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA29855; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:26:32 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:26:32 -0700 Message-Id: <63961007144636/0005695065PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu