Ensoniq samplers have long been a favorite of musicians, with their innovative design, extensive feature list, and great sound. Unfortunately, Ensoniq was merged with E-mu Systems, then sold to Creative years ago, who have discontinued both brands.
Ensoniq samplers have long been a favorite of musicians, with their innovative design, extensive feature list, and great sound. Unfortunately, Ensoniq was merged with E-mu Systems, then sold to Creative years ago, who have discontinued both brands.
Is it possible to make a replacement power supply for the ASR 10 that runs much cooler?
A switching supply would definitely run cooler, but there are several odd voltages that a standard switching supply wouldn’t have. So it would have to be a custom design.
Just a historical note: Creative purchased E-mu in 1993, while the Emulator 4 was in development, but before it was even released. E-mu continued making musical instruments as a subsidy of Creative for ten years, including the E4 and Ultra series, Proteus 2000 series and others. They also introduced a couple of products that completely flopped, like the Darwin HD recorder. David Rossum is on record as saying Creative always understood what E-mu were doing and supported them, but that for those ten years, E-mu never made any money.
Ensoniq were purchased by Creative in 1998 for their PCI sound card tech. The musical instruments side was rolled into E-mu, and Rossum says it was them who never managed to do anything with the Ensoniq tech after that.