TS-10

Workstation with 61-note synth action keyboard with velocity and polyphonic aftertouch.

The synthesizer section has 32 voices of polyphony (12 MIDI tracks of multitimbrality). It uses a ROM bank with 6 MB of samples from various acoustic instruments, synth waves, percussion and sound effects. A single patch is called a "Sound" and can be made from combining up to six waves. Each "Sound" can have up to four variations which are selected via two "Patch Selector Buttons" above the Pitch-bend and Modulation wheels.

A performance patch, called a "Preset" can be made from up to three "Sounds" with independent settings for each "Sound". Arranged by banks are 120 user "Sounds" and 120 user "Preset" performance patches plus 180 preset "Sounds" and 180 preset "Preset" performance patches. There is also one bank for 10 sampled sounds which can be doubled if the RAM is expanded. The General MIDI sound set is also available in the TS.

The TS series workstations offer Wavetable, Transwave (Ensoniq's wavetable synthesis also available on the ASR-10 and Fizmo), Hyperwave (a sort of vector type wave sequencing like on the Korg Wavestation), and Sampling via 3.5" floppy disks or the optional SP-4 SCSI interface. The memory expansion from 2 to 8 Mb is required for sampling. Sample data can only be saved on a TS formatted disk (and not on EPS/ASR disks).


In 180 preset and 120 user patches presets can be stored as well as
180 preset and 120 user performances.