Ensoniq relaunch real contender to Kronos or not real at all

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kday wrote:I wish Ensoniq would comeback in their old spirit of innovative ASR-10, MR-61 updated 2011 versions of those keyboards.
+1000!

What a wonderful year could be 2011! :wink:

P.S. This thread should be somewhere else (not related with Kronos) since we don't know if the rumours are true.
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True, this thread should be moved.

If Creative where to reanimate Ensoniq, it would be neat to see a soft synth that combined the Ensoniq Fizmo with the E-MU Morpheus. Everything else that those companies have done, while very important for the evolution of modern synths, was largely rompler/sampler-oriented, IIRC. That wouldn't be very interesting now.
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I'd like to see Ensoniq return, independent of Creative, with a new keyboard containing multiple synthesis engines and their own version of KARMA.

Or... I could just buy a KRONOS. :lol:
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I'd like to see Superman save Metropolis from people who joined the forum yesterday and kicked off their first post with an absurdist, irrelevant thread - solely for the purpose, it seems, of sowing doubt as to whether to buy a new Korg product.
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Meh. It's an open forum.

I'm still getting a KRONOS.

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Yes, it's an open forum - one best regarded with open eyes.
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You've got to love the Internet... I saw that one announcement about 8 months ago, and then nothing else. The above quoted video is just some guy telling his personal opinion on the matter - he has nothing to do with anything. And he really doesn't even know what he's talking about...

None of the design/development team that I know, and still talk to a few times a year are involved with Creative. So if something gonna happen it's just going to be new people pulling up the brand name and making "something". It won't be the spirit and personality of Ensoniq. It's sad when a brand you were part of is sold off, killed, and then "reanimated". Reminds me of this cult/cheezy horror flick:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/

:(

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RE-ANIMATOR?!? :shock: :shock:

RE-ANIMATOR ?!? :?: :idea: :-k

JerryK (he was the vice-president at the Swiss unit of Korg) says there's a new Creative Synth named the Re-Animator (you know: Creative just bought Ensoniq. AND Yamaha!)

Is it a new synth? [-o<

A new workstation ?!? :P

I am excited!!! :D :) :o :lol: :twisted:

I want one! :twisted: :o :lol:

I want two!!! :shock: :shock: :!:

They say it's a double-keyboard 88 unweighted VA synth with wavetables and real analogue filters!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Arf arf!!! :P :P :P :P :P :P

I already booked one!!!

I can't wait for it!

When do they ship it?

How happens it's not been shipped yet? :cry:

Boy I hate these people... they make fun of us... :evil: [-X
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Remind me never to drink coffee while reading Ozy's posts... gotta go clean up my computer keyboard now.

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jerrythek wrote:
It won't be the spirit and personality of Ensoniq. It's sad when a brand you were part of is sold off, killed, and then "reanimated".
True and sad. I really loved my TS 10 8)

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SoulBe wrote:
jerrythek wrote:
It won't be the spirit and personality of Ensoniq. It's sad when a brand you were part of is sold off, killed, and then "reanimated".
True and sad. I really loved my TS 10 8)

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+1. :(

Thank you, Jerry, for the clarification.
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SoulBe wrote:
jerrythek wrote:
It won't be the spirit and personality of Ensoniq. It's sad when a brand you were part of is sold off, killed, and then "reanimated".
True and sad. I really loved my TS 10 8)
I loved my ESQ-1.

I had a lot of respect for Ensoniq back in the day.

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My dear ZR-76

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Sometimes I miss my ZR-76.

76-weighted keys E-G, great keyboard. The perfect piano sounds where also ok what I can remember.
Some other good sounds as well but very poor functionality for live performing.

I sold it to buy my Kurzweil K2500X, and I don't want to change back but I still miss the ZR sometimes


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Synthoid wrote: I loved my ESQ-1.

I had a lot of respect for Ensoniq back in the day.

:cry:

Still got mine :D A truly underrated synth (that said, mine has been in storage for at least 10 years... Had the foresight to remove the failing internal battery though).
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Akos Janca wrote:
kday wrote:I wish Ensoniq would comeback in their old spirit of innovative ASR-10, MR-61 updated 2011 versions of those keyboards.
+1000!

What a wonderful year could be 2011! :wink:
And it would be even better if Ensoniq re-issued the FIZMO, preferably the FIZMO rack :P
(updated with an LCD screen and more patch memory)


... or if Korg could license the Ensoniq 2nd generation Transwaves of the FIZMO and put them into the wave sequencing engine of their Kronos

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