Ensoniq ASR-10

this japanese interview shows daft punks equipment used to record homework

Listed on the Syro album packaging as being one of the pieces of gear used sometime during the recording of such album is the famous Ensoniq ASR-10.

In this video Kanye West is seen at 0:24 using an Ensoniq ASR-10 in the studio.

At 1:52, An Ensoniq ASR-10 can be seen in Pharell's studio.

Timbaland is seen at 5:40 in the studio with Kanye West working on the ASR keyboard.

In this Instagram post Noah 40 Shebib is showing his Ensoniq ASR 10

In this photo, Rob Brown of Autechre can be seen playing the Ensoniq ASR-10.

While their live rig has been overhauled many times over the years, the Ensoniq ASR10 was Kens primary midi controller for triggering sounds for many years. Can be seen at 0:35 in this video.

"Then, I have a massive collection of samplers going back to one of the very first ones that came out, which was the Mirage. I'm working now on a movie with Peter Jackson—I can't tell anything about the movie at this point—but I'm using a lot of these older samplers because they give me a lot of quality. I'm using the ASR-10, Ensoniq, the Mirage. I'm using the Emulator II. It's all really good for that stuff."

The Rza talks about the Ensoniq ASR-10, the legendary board he used to create many classic songs, at 5:58, saying "...But in 1991 going on 92, Ensoniq put out the ASR-10 and when they did that...that's when I became a master producer. The whole first One Hundred Wu-Tang songs was made on ASR-10..."

In this interview with Red Bull Music Academy, Just Blaze says "my first piece of machinery, my first real piece of machinery was an ASR-10." This can be heard at 01:00:04.

In this video at :15s The Alchemist is seen using a Ensoniq ASR-10 to make his music. Riggs Morales says "some of the best shit that 'Al' has hasn't seen the light yet..some of that shit is in his ASR-10 collecting dust."

"As far as the equipment I like to record on Pro Tools which is really easy to use. And as far as sampling I love to use the SP-1200 because it’s analog and ASR10 that’s analog as well. And analog synths and of course vinyl, just a bunch of funk records from the 70’s. You know I love those drums. I’ll grab those drums and put them on my drum machines. Make them up-to-date and stuff and that’s just the funk."

in this interview Mike Dean explains how he got into producing and his first gear

In this video you see El-P using the Ensoniq ASR-10 at 3:05.

confirmation at 0:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4IZI2_AEXA

Jake One can be seen in this video talking about how he likes to use the Ensoniq ASR-10 for sampling.

> Contrary to No ID, Kanye likes to use all the equipment in the room — stomp boxes, classic samplers, and so on. He mainly uses the [Ensoniq] ASR10 and sequences that with an [Akai] MPC 2000XL. When he's done with a track, he sends it to us as an MP3, and I upload these onto two tracks in Pro Tools. In this case Jay wanted Rihanna's vocals to be edited down, so I asked for them separately, and worked with two tracks of music, two tracks of Rihanna, and then Jay cut his vocals to that. The song was originally intended to feature just Jay and Rihanna, but he also wanted Kanye on it, because he felt that it would fit the texture of the song. So one day when Kanye was in New York, he came in at 10am and in two takes he was done. Young Guru, Sound on Sound interview, 2009.

Used in studio and live

In this video Dj Babu is seen using an ASR-10 for a beat starting at 1:20.

This article says in this live show D'Angelo played the ASR-10 during the set

At 4:27, Alan Braxe mentions the ASR 10.

Used by Daft Punk and many others.

As mentioned in the liner notes and official site for Szampler: “A collection of samples I made for my old Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus and ASR-10 samplers that I used between 1989 and 1996.” – Fennesz, 7 Jan 2010

At around 8:11, Kay shows her ASR-10.

At 1:55 in this interview Dj Toomp says "ASR boom, i forgot about that, I can't forget about her. She plays a major part and when I get sounds from [Reason](https://equipboard.com/items/propellerhead-reason-6-5) and put them on my ASR, that could take the game to a whole another level too."

In [this article](https://www.propellerheads.se/substance/artist-stories/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=dj-khalil), Dj Khalil talks at Propellarhead about Reason and making the switch from ASR. At about one minute into the video, he says, " "So there was a point where...where basically I had got tired of the ASR, I've exhausted everything out of that piece of equipment...I basically need a change." In the accompanying article, it says, "Like many other Hip Hop producers, his former weapon of choice was the ASR-10 sampler workstation but after trying out Reason for a few months he realized how much better and richer his productions sounded and he decided to switch to software."

With everything contained inside just a four-bar loop, Blockhead uses the 8-track sequencer in the ASR-10 to turn all the samples into a relaxed, logically arranged composition. “To turn it into a song, you just build,” he states. “Every piece takes it up to another level, just making the best transitions between elements. This sampling session today flowed pretty smoothly. I don't know how to describe the final song because I feel like it falls in-between a lot of descriptions. It's hokey, but ultimately, I'd say it's pretty upbeat."

Holger Czukay is credited with Ensoniq ASR 10.

In this article it says Emile Haynie uses the Ensoniqe ASR-10 and is shown in one of the photos

"I have a Technics SL1200 turntable and a Rane Mixer that I use for vinyl sampling. Sampling is done with an Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard, and all the vocals are recorded with a Neumann TL103 running into an Avalon 737SP."

"I still have the keyboards that I have been using for many years: Korg Wavestation, Yamaha DX7 and TG77, Sequential Prophet 5, Ensoniq ASR10 sampler."

In this video you can see DJ Pain 1 using the Ensoniq ASR-10 starting from the intro of the video.

[This article](http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may13/articles/classic-tracks-0513.htm) states Doyle used an Ensoniq ASR-10.

In this article RZA is quoted as saying: “For years, Math has had the idea of putting together a body of music using modern and legendary equipment such as ASR10 with vocal performances by Wu-Tang Clan members and other prominent MCs.”

Tweet from Robin Beanland in which he says he used an Ensoniq ASR-10 for the *Killer Instinct* soundtrack.

Evidence makes a beat with the ASR-10

“I’ll always start with a drum loop run off a Technics 1200 turntable into my ASR-10, which I then use to trigger and manipulate the beat,” he explains. “Once I get something I can work with, I put the loop into Pro Tools, because you’re working with more than 2MB worth of memory there. I could never cut the ASR-10 out of the loop, though. It’s much more intuitive for me to construct the beat on the ASR-10 than it is to cut and paste in Pro Tools.”

"So the whole recording was mostly based on one item, the ASR10 sampler. I produced the album while I was still studying, mostly at night in my one-room flat in Berlin. An Atari computer was used as a rough sequencer, all equing and final layer arrangements were recorded live on a DAT. I actually still should have different versions of each LFJR-track somewhere on a DAT…"

Some gear that Mick Harris has used: Ensoniq ASR10 workstation/sampler. Emu E64 sampler. Novation Bass Station synth. Alesis D4 drum module. Ensoniq EPS 16+ workstation/sampler.

JakeOne is spotted at 1:01 in front of an Ensoniq ASR-10

"I've got an 8100 Power Mac that was basically outdated the second I bought it. I use Performer, and I have four 760 Roland samplers. I have a Korg TR rack sound module, a Korg O1RW sound module, a Korg X3R, an old Proteus FX and a Roland JD-1080. I've got a Roland R-8M. My keyboard is a Roland D-70. I have an old Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler. I have a Tascam DA-88 and a Mackie 32*8 mixing console, plus a couple of Lexicon reverb units."

André Floriano´s Ensonic ASR-10

In this story from his official Instagram account, you can see the Ensoniq ASR-10 at the bottom.

"The core of my production arsenal was three tools which I still use today, for better or worse. An Ensoniq ASR-10 keyboard/sampler with 16 megs of RAM was by far the most important tool, and its default library of 3 CDs of samples provided the backbone of my musical pieces as well as a surprising amount of sound effects."