Ensoniq
Sign in to saveEnsoniq Corp. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Ensoniq Corp.
- Company.logo
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- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Creative Technology (January 1998) and merged with E-MU Systems, now dissolved
- Company.location
- Malvern, Pennsylvania
- Company.industry
- Musical instruments and technology
- Company.parent
- Creative Technology
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- History
- Musical instruments and digital systems
- Timeline of major products
- Sound cards and semiconductors
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Ensoniq Corp. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers.
== History == In spring 1983, former MOS Technology engineers Robert "Bob" Yannes, Bruce Crockett, Charles Winterble, David Ziembicki, and Albert Charpentier formed Peripheral Visions. The team had designed the Commodore 64, and hoped to build another computer. To raise funds, Peripheral Visions agreed to build a computer keyboard for the Atari 2600, but the video game crash of 1983 canceled the project and Commodore sued the new company, claiming that it owned the keyboard project. Renaming itself as Ensoniq, the new company instead designed a music synthesizer.