Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Originally Posted By: rockstar_not
Ensoniq ESQ1 purchased in about 87 or so. Wrote lots of songs in the sequencer on that thing, cassette tape data storage and backup.


Didn't you have a computer?? I had that same keyboard (Still do in fact - and will never give it up. Well, I mean, I'll die someday and it will be sold for 100 bucks at an estate sale...) and all my stuff was backed up through the MIDI interface on my little Commodore 64. We played one original that used MIDI for parts and a drum machine and that one sequence was saved in the ESQ. Still an outstanding keyboard. As long as you stayed current with the OS it was and is a great sounding board.

I know you have a sister who is an outstanding singer (as well as being gorgeous). How many siblings were there and were you all musical? Were your parents musical, thus providing influence for you?


Did not have my own computer until 1994-5, after our first born came along and my wife started doing medical transcription from home. I forgot that I sold my ESQ-1 to a buddy and replaced it with an Ensoniq VFX-SD that had a built in 3.5” floppy disc drive.

My parents sang in the church choir. My sisters; all younger than me; are singers and piano players as well to varying degrees. My middle sister is the only professional musician of the lot of us. She is a studio singer and has recently started taking on sessions for one of the biggest video game franchises that exists. I’m not allowed to share which game, studio, composer, etc. I don’t recognize the video game since I just don’t know that scene, but the studio and composer, everyone reading this has heard of. When it’s released or publicized, I will post some links to the release. I’m convinced that if the Voice existed 30 years ago, she would have had a real shot of winning. She has sang the National Anthem at Indianapolis Colts and Indianapolis Pacers games. Can sight read anything and sing in any style, hence the video game call. Her normal work is recording demos for choral publishers who seem to favor Stravinsky and the like for their choice of ‘melody’ lines. I can’t sight read a thing. She calls me the real musician in the family, as she doesn’t compose at all. I disagree.

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