Jul 25, 2026 | Cherry Audio
In this video, Sam Mims, founder of Syntaur in New Braunfels, TX, shares his story of how Ensoniq and its gear (including the ESQ-1 synthesizer) changed his path and led to his work in sound design and the beginning of Syntaur itself.
FREE and available now: Syntaur Sounds for ESQ-1 is a collection of Cherry Audio presets, featuring the sounds created by Sam back in the 80s for his Syntaur Soundsets line of patch collections. There were four Soundsets, each with four banks of 10 sounds, and they have been collected for a total of 160 presets compatible with Cherry Audio's ESQ-1 virtual synthesizer instrument. Now, you can add the entire Syntaur Soundsets collection of patches to your Ensoniq ESQ-1 by Cherry Audio at no cost!
Our deepest thanks to Sam for sharing his story as well as these sounds, and to Daniel Keller for lending his production expertise for this video. Photos by Syntaur. Music by James Terris.