the waveforms therein these folders are the waveforms as taken from an Ensoniq SQ-80's waverom. what this means is that the day Ensoniq burned these waveforms into rom you are now getting back in return exactly the day they went into, and you can now use them as you see fit. addmitedly these waveforms aren't for replacing your sq-80, so don't get the wrong idea here. what these waveforms do give you is an important piece of the pie that is the Ensoniq SQ-80 (ESQ-1 as well). the waveforms are grouped in folders, 74 of them. one for each "waveform" as you would select on your own SQ-80. the natural order of the waves as in the SQ-80 can be viewed if one arranges the folders in a list, by the "date created". quite a few of the waves used in the waveforms of the SQ-80 are repeated throughout. what i have done with these waves is make aliases (shortcuts) to the wave that is used in that particular waveform. in most cases the name is obvious of the waveform that should be used there. the waveforms in these folders are multi-samples that exist in a specific range on the SQ-80. each file is labeled with one or two numbers in parenthesis. this small chart here will give you the range of all 16 multisample positions as midi key ranges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0-7|8-16|17-25|26-34|35-43|44-52|53-61|62-70|71-79|80-88|89-97|98-106|107-116|117-125|126-134|135-143| so for e.g. a wave that has a range of 4-8 means that its original key range is 26-70 in midi key postions. it should be known that at the very end of each waveforms valid waves range ensoniq decided to fill up the empty multi-sample space there on with a collection of a sine wave, triangle wave, more aggressive sine, octave and a few others i can't recall at the moment. these were just filler so they have not been included. the reason they did this i think was cause they had to have something occupying all 16 multi-sample ranges. they could have just stretched the last useable sample up to the end of the 16th multi-sample range, but if one does this they will get the wonderfull effect of aliasing. i guess these waveforms they choose instead are there to minimize this aliasing that still does occur but not to such a great extent. also you will notice that the 15th & 16th multi-sample ranges are out of the range addressable keys via midi (0-127). all the waves as in the SQ-80 have a root note of C4 (60), some waveforms as in the SQ-80 are meant to be tuned, most are not. i do not know how to interpret this information but i will include it all the same. in the raw wave parameter chart these two columns are as thus 1=semitone shift & 2=fine tune... [1]|[2] | waveform name (specific multi-samples) 220, 00 ; bowing.1 224,188 ; plunk 205,252 ; plick 220, 00 ; bowing.2 227, 48 ; pick2.1 224,168 ; plink 220, 48 ; pick2.2 232, 00 ; chiff.2 238, 48 ; chiff.1 249, 28 ; pick1.1 244, 00 ; pick1.2 244, 00 ; slap 232, 00 ; mallet 201, 60 ; tomtom 189, 60 ; tomtom.ds 221, 00 ; snare 213, 00 ; snare.ds 228, 76 ; metal 216, 00 ; steam 220, 00 ; voice3.1 220, 00 ; voice3.2 232, 00 ; breath 9,150 ; chime.1 9, 60 ; chime.2 249, 00 ; kick.2 232, 00 ; logdrm.ds 247, 00 ; hi hat 232, 00 ; click 232, 00 ; thump 84, 00 ; glint.1 72, 00 ; glint.2 67, 00 ; glint.3 60, 00 ; glint.4 48, 00 ; glint.5 43, 00 ; glint.6 36, 00 ; glint.7 24, 00 ; glint.8 19, 00 ; glint.9 12, 00 ; glint.10 if anyone plans on using these for anything other than in their music, please think of myself. i can be reached at amfreq@hotmail.com. i spent a fair amount of time interepreting data tables in hexadecimal format, and slicing and dicing these 243 waves. special thanks should go to Rainer Buchty. he provided the raw waveform dump and the data charts that without would have made this task quite impossible. he maintains an excellent website at http://www.buchty.net/ensoniq/ and a mailing list for discussion on thar Ensoniq SQ-80. thanks and enjoy! //christian