Ensoniq SQ-80 Factory Demo Disks

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"This is from the series of Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disks model #s VSD-1 through VSD-5, recorded here direct from the synthesizer. One of these disks was included with each new SQ-80. Several of the songs loop endlessly, so all loops were turned off for this video. VSD-99 "VOICE / DATA DISK # 99" is not included here. My best guess is that it was more in the developmental stage. It's dated 1987, a year earlier than the rest, and has the same sequences as one of the other disks."

Playlist:

1. Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disk VSD-1 "SQ-80 VOICE / DATA DISK #1"

VSD-1 comes with four banks of demo sequences:
1. BNK 1 DEMO (1 song)
2. BNK 2 DEMO (1 song)
3. INT DEMOS (2 songs)
4. INT-2 DEMO (10 songs)

2. Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disk VSD-2 "ESSENTIAL 1

VSD-2 comes with two banks of demo sequences:
1. BNK 1 DEMO (10 songs)
2. INT DEMO 2 (1 song)

3. Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disk VSD-3 "PERFRMANCE 1"

VSD-3 comes with two banks of demo sequences:
1. PERF1. DEMO (10 songs)
2. INT .2 DEMO (10 songs)

4. Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disk VSD-4 "ESSENTIAL 2"

VSD-4 comes with two banks of demo sequences:
1. ESSNT2DEMO (10 songs)
2. INT 2 DEMO (7 songs)

5. Ensoniq SQ-80 factory demo disk VSD-5 "PERFRMANCE #2"

VSD-5 comes with two banks of demo sequences: 1. PERF.2DEMO (10 songs) 2. INT.2 DEMO (5 songs)

Update: VSD-5 demo added to the playlist.

2022 Ensoniq SQ-80 patch set: "The Outer Patches"

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"Here is a sampling of the patches from the third patch set in this series available on eBay. The first set came out in 2016: the "Disruptor Banks", and the second one in 2017: "The Mad Scientist Series". This set has the usual two main banks of patches, the "blank bank" utility bank, a few hidden extra patches, and this time there is an additional extra bank that just has Star Trek (TOS) sound effects - some old (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_sd...) [posted here] and some new."

RMI Keyboard Computer (KC1) combo organ

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1973 - The Computer Keyboard (prototype)
1974 - The Keyboard Computer (this one)
1975 - The Keyboard Computer II (until 1982)

"...'morganfisherart' did an excellent job demonstrating the KC2 [posted here], but there weren't any good ones for the KC1 unless you count the 1974 RMI demo record. I recorded my KC1 direct using no effects or EQ. Hopefully this video should clear up some misinformation around the internet. This instrument is not a sample player or a synthesizer, it was never available to the public with illuminated buttons, and channel 3 is not even in the same ballpark as a "white noise effect".

I have to do a shout-out to a couple of scholarly gentlemen who wrote a book in 2019 that I highly recommend called "Classic Keys, Keyboard Sounds That Launched Rock Music". A few years ago I had my Keyboard Computer professionally photographed and a couple of those pictures were used in this book. Anyway this book is filled with a lot of very in-depth research and even recently won an award."

You can find additional RMI Keyboard Computer posts here.

Ensoniq SQ-80 Demos by 909955847736

Published on Jul 30, 2009 909955847736

Playlist:

Ensoniq SQ-80 demo 1 - Kirk Slinkard
Ensoniq SQ-80 demo 2 - Kirk Slinkard.mp4
ENSONIQ SQ-80 factory demo songs PART 2
2017 Ensoniq SQ-80 patch set: "The Mad Scientist Series" - "This video shows why you shouldn't use a camcorder to record music if you live a quarter of a mile away from a radio station. I tried to splice out most of the worst parts while different patches were being selected. You should still be able to hear a few of the sounds from this 2nd patch set from this source."

Prototype 1974 Vintage 1974 RMI KC-1 Keyboard Computer SN 509 with Punch-Out Card Reader

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"Wow! This is the 1974 RMI Rocky Mount Instruments KC-1 Keyboard Computer! It has just arrived fresh from a Colorado Estate! I am still going through this incredibly rare synthesizer! This is the world's first portable digital synthesizer!! Less than 100 were ever made! That is the best guess as to how many were actually ever produced! The Keyboard Computer II, or KCII, followed this original KC1 version. That KCII model was offered from 1975 to 1982..

First users included Jean Michael Jarre and Garth Hudson, Uses the North American Rockwell MOS chip set that came right out of the NASA Space program from the 1960s!

10-voice polyphonic digital wavetable synthesizer with IBM punch card reader. I have about 50 IBM punch cards included in sale

This keyboard Pre-dates all PPG and Prophet digital synthesizers!

Low serial number- all wood enclosure-not the plastic top KC1 version- the selector buttons light up when selected as only the very first versions did!

61 key polyphonic-3 Audio channel output- 3rd channel was for white noise only

$4,495 in 1974"

Related posts: The PPG 1003 "Sonic Carrier" - World's First Programmable Synth? - The First Synth to.... Also see the RMI channel.

Update via 909955847736 in the comments: "This is actually the prototype which was used on the demo record, ads, and promotional tours. It's very possible that only one of these was ever made. It's the only one with a wood body and illuminated switches. The production model Keyboard Computer (KCI) has a molded plastic body with non-lighted push-in/push-out buttons. And it also had a few differences in the voices and functions compared to this instrument. They are both portable versions of the Allen Theater Organ. The later KCII was not directly associated with any specific Allen organ model. None of the KC models qualify as a synthesizer any more than any other electronic organ did in 1974."

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