Subsequent imports have behaved perfectly. The second time it happened I exported the bank to Arturia’s proprietary sysex format, deleted the offending bank, and reimported it without problems.
The first time it happened I deleted what appeared to be duplicates by hand, only to find that I had one by one deleted every program in the bank. Twice the Arturia software appeared to duplicate every program in the bank, telling me there were 80 when I had uploaded only 40, but this problem seems to have gone away. I ran into some odd behaviour when I imported a bank of ESQ-1 programs.
It should be though, as the old and free 32-bit SQ8L, which still works, is also close (even though it has some differences the developer deemed improvements). With their gains balanced, playing the same programs on the original 1986 hardware ESQ-1 and the new 2021 software SQ80 V, I am hard-pressed to tell them apart, so my verdict is that this is a faithful emulation. The SQ family were state of the art for ease of programming in the 1980s, but expectations and technology have changed since then. My first impression is that it is so much better all round to have graphical representations of synthesis parameters like envelopes and filters than just digital readouts.
Despite (or perhaps because of) owning a working Ensoniq ESQ-1 and copies of the now abandoned SQ8L and Krosswave software emulations of the ESQ-1’s successor, the SQ-80, this week I spent actual money on yet another emulation of the SQ-80, the Arturia SQ80 V.
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