The instrument in question is an Ensoniq ASR-10 16-bit sampler that Just Blaze found while digging through storage. “This is the actual ASR-10 Kanye used during the Dynasty, Blueprint, BP2, and Black ...
The reign of analogue synthesis had reached its end as the '80s came to a close. Heck, even the FM synthesis that dealt analogue’s death blow was on notice, supplanted by ROMplers, their meagre ...
US company Ensoniq had a lot to live up to in 1988. Its price-busting Mirage had put sampling into the hands of 30,000 workaday musicians, albeit with rather compromised 8-bit fidelity. Still, such lo ...