Electronic Musician

Michael Stein

here have been a few keyboards that changed my life for various reasons. One of those is the Ensoniq SQ-80. In my formative years, I was constantly searching for sounds and the synths that made them (I still am). I had amassed a few analog mono synths first, but I wanted something that was texturally

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