Please do not resell or redistribute on your own such as Google Drive, Mega. Patches are protected with a standard GNU licence. These 4500 patches originate from SQ-80 floppy disks available at: [www.buchty.net] Section Ensoniq.
A few weeks ago I contacted Rainer Buchty regarding the extraction of original SQ-80 floppy disks. He soon wrote a C program to extract program banks from the floppy image files and to de-nibble the data (for SYX purpose). The rest was easy, I just had to split the binary files in Linux, name them correctly and test them to make sure the translation went smooth.
If you wonder why some banks are “missing”. Well, they aren’t. They were duplicates and I deleted them. This will save you some time when loading patches hence you won’t have to load duplicate banks. SQ8L folder contains patches from SQ8L software. I just thought i should add these since they are sort of “best of everything” to give you a quick access to cool sounds.
A couple of tips
If you have issues uploading these patches into Ensoniq, here are the obvious two things to do. First initialise the device to factory settings.
- Press and hold the (RECORD) button
- Press Soft button (1) (upper left hand corner of screen), then release both buttons.
- Display = ERASE ALL MEMORY AND RE-INITIALIZE
- Select YES. The display returns to the sign-on message. All RAM is erased and all internal programs are reset
As of those who wonder how to upload this patches at the first place. I wrote an article about this topic that should help them and is available on this link. When it comes to ESQ1 one important thing you have to set on Ensoniq before uploading any patches and many people seem to forget this little thing, SysEx has to be enabled. Here’s how.
- Press the MIDI button.
- Display should look like this:
- Press bottom-right soft button below the screen where display says ENABLE = KEYS + CONTROLLERS
- Push cursor key up until display says ENABLE = KEYS + CT + PC + SS + SX
- Now transfer MUST work. If it does not, you have a problem elsewhere (sysex software settings, cable, connector, etc.) I doubt I would be able to help.
Download link: Ensoniq Ultimate Patch Bank
Banks:
Collected sounds I ------------- 1: ESQ-001 2: ESQ-002 3: ESQ-003 4: ESQ-004 5: ESQ-005 6: ESQ-006 7: ESQ-007 8: ESQ-008 9: ESQ-009 10: ESQ-010 11: ESQ-011 12: ESQ-012 13: ESQ-013 14: ESQ-014 15: ESQ-015 16: ESQ-016 17: ESQ-017 18: ESQ-018 19: ESQ-019 20: ESQ-020 21: ESQ-021 22: ESQ-022 23: ESQ-023 24: ESQ-024 25: ESQ-025 26: ESQ-026 27: ESQ-027 28: ESQ-028 29: ESQ-029 30: ESQ-030 31: ESQ-031 32: ESQ-032 33: ESQ-033 34: ESQ-034 35: ESQ-035 36: ESQ-036 37: ESQ-037 38: ESQ-038 39: ESQ-039 40: ESQ-040 Collected sounds II ------------- 1: ESQ-041 2: ESQ-042 3: ESQ-043 4: ESQ-044 5: ESQ-045 6: ESQ-046 7: ESQ-047 8: ESQ-048 9: ESQ_1 10: ESQ_2 11: ESQ_3 12: ESQ_4 13: ESQ_5 14: ESQ CARD A 15: ESQ CART B 16: HACK1_SQ80 17: HACK2_SQ80 18: HACKER-A 19: HACKER-B 20: HACKER-C 21: HACKER-D 22: HACKER-E 23: HACKER-F 24: HACKER-G 25: HACKER-H 26: MT32-A1 27: MT32-B1 28: MT32-I 29: PA CART A1 30: PA CART B1 31: PA CART A2 32: PA CART B2 33: DBRASS1A 34: DBRASS1B 35: DBRASS2A 36: DBRASS2B 37: DBRASS3A 38: DBRASS3B 39: DBRASS4A 40: DBRASS4B SQ80 Essential I (VSD-2) ------------- 1: ESSNTIAL 1 2: INTERNALS 3: ---------- 4: ---------- 5:---------- 6: ---------- 7: ---------- 8: ---------- 9: ---------- 10:---------- 11: ---------- 12: ---------- 13: ---------- 14: ---------- 15:---------- 16: ---------- 17: ---------- 18: ---------- 19: ---------- 20:---------- 21: ---------- 22: ---------- 23: ---------- 24: ---------- 25:---------- 26: ---------- 27: ---------- 28: ---------- 29: ---------- 30:---------- 31: ---------- 32: ---------- 33: ---------- 34: ---------- 35:---------- 36: ---------- 37: ---------- 38: ---------- 39: ---------- 40:---------- SQ80 Factory Disk (VSD-99) ------------- 1: SEQBANK-01 2: SEQBANK-02 3: SEQBANK-03 4: SEQBANK-04 5: ---------- 6: ---------- 7: ---------- 8: ---------- 9: ---------- 10: ---------- 11: INTERNALS 12: INTERNAL 2 13: CLASSIC 1A 14: CLASSIC 1B 15: CLASSIC 2A 16: CLASSIC 2B 17: LAYERS 1A 18: LAYERS 1B 19: CLASSIC 3A 20: CLASSIC 3B 21: STUDIO 1A 22: STUDIO 1B 23: LAYERS 2A 24: LAYERS 2B 25: STUDIO 2A 26: STUDIO 2B 27: CONTEMP 1A 28: CONTEMP 1B 29: LAYERS 3A 30: LAYERS 3B 31: CONTEMP 2A 32: CONTEMP 2B 33: ---------- 34: ---------- 35: ---------- 36: ---------- 37: ---------- 38: ---------- 39: ---------- 40: ---------- SQ80 Performance I (VSD-3) ------------- 1: SEQBANK-01 2: SEQBANK-02 3: ---------- 4: ---------- 5: ---------- 6: ---------- 7: ---------- 8: ---------- 9: ---------- 10: ---------- 11: PERFORM 1 12: LAYERS 13: INTERNAL 2 14: ---------- 15: ---------- 16: ---------- 17: ---------- 18: ---------- 19: ---------- 20: ---------- 21: ---------- 22: ---------- 23: ---------- 24: ---------- 25: ---------- 26: ---------- 27: ---------- 28: ---------- 29: ---------- 30: ---------- 31: ---------- 32: ---------- 33: ---------- 34: ---------- 35: ---------- 36: ---------- 37: ---------- 38: ---------- 39: ---------- 40: ---------- SQ8L ------------- 1: SQ8L-1---- 2: SQ8L-2---- 3: SQ8L-3---- 4: SQ80Factor
