* Ensoniq Soundscape, a soundcard produced by Ensoniq Corp.

Towards the end of the DOS gaming era, every game supported the Ensoniq Soundscape.

* Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 The original Soundscape was Ensoniq's first direct foray into the PC sound card market.

* Ensoniq Soundscape Elite The ELITE was Ensoniq's high-end ISA offering.

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* Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90 was Ensoniq's generational step forward from the Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000-based boards.

* Ensoniq Corp. Soundscape S-2000 Manual, Ensoniq, 1994.

It was a Soundscape-like board, using the Ensoniq " OPUS " multimedia sound chip, a chip that was only used on these OEM boards.

In 1998, Creative acquired Ensoniq Corporation, manufacturer of the AudioPCI, a card popular with OEMs at the time.

However, it provided only mono sound through this jack, and a third-party adapter card was required to produce true two-channel stereo, despite the fact that the Ensoniq and virtually all native software produced stereo audio ( stereo audio was essentially built into the machine, but had to be de-multiplexed by third-party cards ).

* Ensoniq SoundscapeDB The SSDB was a wavetable daughterboard upgrade for PCs with a sound card bearing a Waveblaster-compatible connector.

The first low-cost MIDI sampler was the Ensoniq Mirage, introduced in 1984.

The 68EC000 was used as a controller in many audio applications, including Ensoniq musical instruments and sound cards where it was part of the MIDI synthesizer.

The technique was first developed by Wolfgang Palm of PPG in the late 1970s and published in 1979, and has since been used as the primary synthesis method in synthesizers built by PPG and Waldorf Music and as an auxiliary synthesis method by Sequential Circuits, Ensoniq, Korg, Access and Dave Smith Instruments among others.

The SID was devised by engineer Robert " Bob " Yannes, who later co-founded the Ensoniq digital synthesizer company.

It was also the first personal computer to come with a built-in " wavetable " sample-based synthesizer chip, utilizing technology from Ensoniq.

Audio was generated by a built-in sound and music synthesizer in the form of the Ensoniq Digital Oscillator Chip ( DOC ), which had its own dedicated RAM and 32 separate channels of sound.

The Apple IIGS ' sound was provided by an Ensoniq ES5503 DOC wavetable sound chip, the same chip used in Ensoniq Mirage and Ensoniq ESQ-1 professional-grade synthesizers.

Though the IIGS was allowed to keep the Ensoniq, Apple has not included dedicated hardware sound synthesizers in any of its Macintosh models since ( though of course, third-party products exist ).

In terms of hardware, the new motherboard was a cleaner design that drew less power and resolved audio noise issues that interfered with the Ensoniq synthesizer in the original motherboard.

The musical score in the original version was designed to exploit the unique 15-voice Ensoniq music synthesizer in the Apple II computer.

E-mu Emulator II ( 1984 ) was designed to bridge the gap between the Fairlight CMI and Synclavier and the Ensoniq Mirage.

This shortcoming was shared by other manufacturers at the time such as Alesis and Ensoniq.

The Mirage was Ensoniq Corporation's first product, introduced in 1984.

The Mirage was the brain child of Bob Yannes, the man responsible for the MOS Technology SID ( Sound Interface Device ) chip in the Commodore 64 and the Ensoniq Digital Oscillator Chip ( Ensoniq ES5503 DOC ) used in the Apple IIGS computer ( actually it is the same chip as used in the Mirage, ESQ-1, and SQ-80 ).

Ensoniq Corp. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid 1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers.

Ensoniq was founded in 1982 by former MOS Technology engineers Robert " Bob " Yannes ( designer of the MOS Technology SID chip for the Commodore 64 home computer ), Bruce Crockett, and Al Charpentier.

In January 1998, ENSONIQ Corp. was acquired by Creative Technology Ltd. for $ 77 million, and merged with E-mu Systems to form the E-Mu / Ensoniq division.

The fusion with E-mu sealed Ensoniq's fate: after releasing an entry-level E-mu MK6 / PK6 and Ensoniq Halo keyboards-essentially keyboard versions of the Proteus 2500 module-in 2002, the E-Mu / Ensoniq division was dissolved and support for legacy products was discontinued soon afterward.

The Apple IIGS used a digital sound chip designed for the Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer, and later models used a custom sound system and upgraded processors, which drove other companies to improve their own offerings.

The first music synthesizer workstations from Ensoniq, the ESQ-1 as well as SQ-80, used one 68B09E as their main CPU.

Bob Yannes, creator of the SID synthesizer chip used in the Commodore 64, went on to design the Ensoniq 5503 DOC synthesizer used in the Apple IIGS.

The Ensoniq ES5505 ( OTIS or OTISR2 ), ES5506 ( OTTO ) and ES5510 ( ESPR6, ESP stands for Ensoniq Signal Processor ) were used in various arcade games.

" On early releases, Sturgis used only an Ensoniq ASR-10 keyboard / sampler to produce music.

Hardware samplers manufactured by Akai, Yamaha and Ensoniq were also popular for sample storage and manipulation.

Web Site " by Ensoniq Corp., Multimedia Division Product Information and Support Pages, 1998, retrieved December 25, 2005

* " Ensoniq FAQ " by Ensoniq Corp., Multimedia Division Product Information and Support Pages, 1997, retrieved December 27, 2005

* Ensoniq Mirage, a sampler made by Ensoniq

Ensoniq ESQ-1 is a hybrid digital-analog synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1986.

This music workstation got rid of some previous classical Ensoniq features, such as polyphonic aftertouch ( replacing it by a mono version ) and full sound editability.

It was manufactured from 1988 to 1991 by Ensoniq in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA.