Ensoniq ESQ-1

t’s hard to imagine today, but in 1986, analog equipment was stale and passé, yet instruments based on digital synthesis were expensive or unfathomable. Yamaha’s DX7 was nicely priced but hard to program. PPG’s Wave 2.2 (and later 2.3) had caused something of a stir with its blend of digital wavetable oscillators and analog