While the core keyboard products were generally successful, there were some quality problems and increasing competition from Asian companies.
A number of successful products followed which all included the full-custom ICs for music and effects which were developed in house. The plant in Great Valley, Pennsylvania employed nearly 200 people and housed the manufacturing facility. Įnsoniq grew rapidly over the next few years with the success of the Mirage and the ESQ-1. Renaming itself as Ensoniq, the new company instead designed a music synthesizer. 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. The team had designed the Commodore 64, and hoped to build another computer. In spring 1983, former MOS Technology engineers Robert 'Bob' Yannes, Bruce Crockett, Charles Winterble, David Ziembicki, and Al Charpentier formed Peripheral Visions. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers. Bruce Crockett, Al Charpentier, and Bob Yannes (founders)Īt the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 1997)Įnsoniq Corp.
