
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ensoniq Mirage

Related Topics

Ensoniq

Ensoniq EPS

Synthesizer

Creative Labs

Digital signal processing

	Reviews: Sample Editors for the Ensoniq Mirage
		The Ensoniq Mirage was the first affordable sampler for the home musician and hobbyist.
		The operations are done by the Mirage and the wavesamples must be recalled to the ST to view the edited results.
		This was the first Mirage sample editor released for the ST. It works with all ST models and monitors, and uses a hardware key protection scheme that lets you copy and install the program on a hard drive.
	www.atarimagazines.com /startv3n7/sampleditors.html (3281 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Ensoniq Mirage
		The Mirage featured a 5 octave velocity sensitive keyboard, a two led display, extensive MIDI implementation and a 333 note sequencer.
		Using this technique, the Mirage essentially turned into a polyphonic mult-timbral midi sound module complete with a velocity sensitive keyboard that could be used to drive other midi sound modules as well its own sound engine.
		The Mirage was the brain child of Bob Yannes, the man responsible for the SID (sound interface device) of the Commodore 64.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Ensoniq_Mirage (221 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage
		Capable of (limited) multi-sampling, the Ensoniq Mirage was something of a miracle (at the time) offering affordable sampling for around $2,000.
		As well as being a few hundred bucks less than the Mirage, it was a dream to use even for complete novices.
		That said, the Mirage's lo-fi sound quality was/is not without appeal and a collection of drum, percussion and other samples have been generously donated by Italian musician Aphrologique of Club Silencio.
	www.hollowsun.com /donations/mirage (664 words)

	How the Ensoniq Mirage influenced the home digital sampling revolution.
		Before the Mirage, digital sampling was only available to studios and wealthy musicians.
		The Ensoniq Mirage was revolutionary and gave the music world a peek into the digital sampling process.
		It is the centerpiece of my MIDI rack, consisting of the Mirage, a Proteus World, a Wavestation SR, and a Nanosynth.
	sev.prnewswire.com /music/20040506/ensoniq_mirage.html (2612 words)

	[No title]
		Mirage factoids ------ -------- The Mirage is based around an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) called the Q-Chip which does much of the hard work associated with getting the sounds out of the memory.
		The Mirage is an eight bit sampler meaning that each sample can have any of 256 values (though, in actuality, the value 0 is reserved for marking the ends of samples, so there are only 255 possible values).
		MIDICaster turns your Mirage alternately into: - A 128k sysex dump device with floppy drive - A 20,000 note (approx) multichannel sequencer - A disk formatter with OS copy capability - A Casio CZ librarian MIDICaster is an alternate form of OS 3.2 that replaces sampling with new capabilities.
	machines.hyperreal.org /machines/manufacturers/Ensoniq/Mirage/info/ensoniq.Mirage.FAQ.txt (1725 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage
		In fact, each Mirage disk had a copy of the operating system and could be used as a boot disk, obviating the need for a separate boot disk.
		The miracle that was the Mirage, was the brain child of Bob Yannes, the man responsible for the superb SID (sound interface device) of the Commodore 64.
		In 1988, Ensoniq followed the Mirage up with the EPS (Ensoniq Performance Sampler), which offered an even more powerful array of features which had been unheard of in a machine of its price.
	www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/e/en/ensoniq_mirage.html (316 words)

	Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
		Seriously though, this is the story of two Ensoniq Mirage keyboards that belonged to me. One worked perfectly fine, the other had a bad chip and couldn't read the keyboard properly anymore.
		Unfortunately the motherboard of the keyboard Mirage models is too damned big to fit in a rackmount case.
		So I took apart the fully functional Mirage and used parts of it to fix the then fully dead Mirage so that it could at least be played live from the keyboard this way I can at least use it as a live instrument.
	www.ghastlycomic.com /mirage/mirage.html (802 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Ensoniq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ensoniq was founded in 1982 by Commodore engineers Robert “Bob” Yannes (designer of the SID audio chip of the Commodore 64 home computer), Bruce Crockett, and Al Charpentier.
		Ensoniq products were highly professional; strong selling points were ease-of-use and their characteristic “fat”, rich sound (generally thought of as being an “American” quality, as opposed to the “Japanese” sound which was more “digital” and somewhat “cold”).
		Ensoniq was known not only for their innovative musical instruments division, but also for their computer audio chips.
	random.dragonslife.org /ensoniq/1745 (1069 words)

	mirage
		Historically, the Mirage was one of the earliest affordable sampler synths.
		The Mirage is an 8-bit sampling keyboard with 8-voice polyphony and a 61-note, 5 octave, velocity sensitive keyboard, including a pitch bend and a modulation wheel.
		The Mirage samples at a variable sampling rate of 8kHz-33kHz, using eight-bit floating point conversion for a reported 16-bit (96dB) dynamic range.
	www.ash-wednesday.com /mirage.htm (447 words)

	Retro Thing: The Ensoniq Mirage: Digital Sampling For The Masses
		The heart of the Mirage was a custom 8-channel audio playback IC designed by Bob Yannes, the guy behind the famous Commodore SID sound chip inside the Commodore 64.
		Ensoniq sold over 30,000 units before introducing the more powerful Ensoniq EPS sampler in 1988.
		The Mirage sitar is still one of my most favorite samples to play around with.
	www.retrothing.com /2007/05/the_ensoniq_mir.html (830 words)

	SN - Ensoniq Products Are Here and it's No Mirage
		To this day, you can't help but be impressed at what the Ensoniq people had accomplished: they had created a product that offered up the very latest digital sampling technology at a shockingly affordable price.
		And while the Mirage was only an 8-bit instrument with 128K of memory, it was a worldwide sensation.
		There are other Ensoniq products to tell you about, and coming soon there's the Paris Hard Disk Recording System, but darn, as usual we're out of room, so you need to call your Sweetwater sales engineer for more information and your very special pricing on all these great products from Ensoniq.
	www.sweetwater.com /publications/sweetnotes/sn-earlysummer97/page-01.html (1302 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage Disk Format
		The Mirage has a format similar to the SQ-80 keyboard.
		Therefore, the Mirage would read (or write) the sector and would use the last byte of the sector as the valid value for the directory byte.
		As the various formats suggest, Ensoniq has come a long way since the Mirage single-sided drives.
	www.youngmonkey.ca /nose/audio_tech/synth/Ensoniq-Mirage_DiskFormat.html (615 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ensoniq hasn't ever given an explaination for it (personally, I don't know why it's so hard for them to admit defects in their machines), but it seems to be a function of the slider/reader.
		I also find myself with multiple keyboards, all of which have sequencers (well, the Mirage doesn't have much of a sequencer and the ESQ is sick in the closet).
		in the ensoniq samplers there is a set of parameters called the "tuning table" that defines what pitch each key will play (normally this is set to "standard") but the machine lets you define your own table.
	www.soundcentral.com /download/keyboard/ensoniq/maillist/oak/eps-digest70 (18849 words)

	[music-dsp] Anti-aliased oscillators in the old days
		The Mirage analog VCF's contributed a large amount of the anti-aliasing function, because Mirage sounded extraordinarily gritty with the VCF full open, even when playing non-pitch-shifted samples.
		Ensoniq was one of the few synth companies of that era with talent and capability of designing custom IC's.
		The Ensoniq sound developers must have run a lot of math processing when developing their ROM waves, to get it sounding anywhere near acceptable given the creaky technology.
	music.columbia.edu /pipermail/music-dsp/2002-August/017371.html (607 words)

	Brands - Miscellaneous Disk Library Ensoniq Mirage
		site ensoniq mirage for the opportunity to include 4 party developed shipping of their saxes, brass shipping for original.
		Good computers so in a brown, close ensoniq mirage A rare oz, and shipping for su su i love these disks ensoniq mirage.
		Triquets, ensoniq mirage ace frehley, max headroom, 24 programs post auction 638.40 value) group / disk library much to speech, knack, per disk) theme, led site oye coma rap it disks include litte richard, party developed you can each (during auctions...
	www.baylornet.com /research/Miscellaneous.Disk.Library.Ensoniq.Mirage/item2/29552.html (764 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage
		Der Ensoniq Mirage war der erste fÃ¼r die breite Masse bezahlbare Sampler.
		Der Mirage bot Sampling in einer 8 Bit-AuflÃ¶sung mit bis zu 33 kHz.
		Kopf der Entwicklung des Mirage war Bob Yannes, der auch den legendÃ¤ren SID-Chip (sound interface device) des Commodore 64 entwarf.
	www.adglossar.de /Ensoniq_Mirage (245 words)

	Ensoniq ASR-X FAQ
		Ensoniq did not release as many new designs in the following years, being occupied by other items, including standalone effects (DP line) and PC sound cards (which perhaps carried their company later).
		Ensoniq has given the impression to most inquirers that the documentation for the specific sys-ex commands for the ASR-X will never be released.
		Ensoniq ASR-X Tools provides an operation where you can edit an ASR-X AIFF file and do anything including resizing and the integrity is maintained.
	www.chickensys.com /asrxfaq.html (2695 words)

	Equipment
		With the standard OS v3.2, the Mirage is not a multi-timbral device.
		The Mirage tracks the GI-10 reasonably well including hammers, pulls and slides and it's pitch bend follows string bends pretty well although you are limited to only being able to bend a string if only one note is playing.
		You should set both the Mirage and GI-10 to a range of 12 (parameter #51 on the Mirage with Soundprocess).
	pages.slic.com /snolan/Equipment/body_equipment.html (3287 words)

	Ensonig Mirage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Mirage rebounded in popularity during the ’90s when grungy audio became a fad, and it’s still lauded by an enthusiastic and dedicated few today.
		Ensoniq later produced a rackmount version, the DMS-8, and a stereo-output model, the DSK-1.
		In late ’87, Ensoniq released the more upscale EPS sampler, which was followed by the EPS-16 Plus (1990) and ASR-10 (1992).
	www.musicplayer.com /lounge/reviews/ensoniq.htm (795 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage: Harmony Central User Reviews
		There are two Mirages: the DSK-8 was the first which just says "Mirage" on the front, has a metal case, weighted keyboard and an expansion slot for a cartridge which extends the sampling frequency range.
		The Mirage has an awesome 8 bit raw sound that is unque to the instrument.
		You'd load it into the Mirage, To make the super hot sounds that can be created with a Mirage one has to have this disc.
	www.harmony-central.com /Synth/Data/Ensoniq/Mirage-01.html (4330 words)

	Ensoniq VFX Home Page
		They called Ensoniq and were told to power-cycle seven times, always turning off the machine at a particular point in the power-up sequence.
		Ensoniq has determined that hard-wireing that connection solves the problem.
		Ensoniq will fix the problem free of charge and has instructed the service centers to do the same.
	www.mcwest.org /~mccreary/vfx (1133 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Mirage had 144 Kilobytes of internal RAM.
		The Mirage sampler has become a minor sought after item due to its low bitrate convertors, being somewhat second place in the quest for Akai MPC60's and S900's due to its complex programming system which is based on HEX coding.
		The Mirage was the brain child of Bob Yannes, the man responsible for the MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device) chip in the Commodore 64.
	www.punweb.com /article/Ensoniq_Mirage (326 words)

	THE LIVING JARBOE
		Actually, sampling pre my use of the Akai was difficult as it was done by shaping parameters and without a monitor like today's samples.
		I beta tested the first touring model of the Ensoniq Mirage.
		It was amazing taking it to eastern Europe and realizing the impact of the technology to that part of the world when it was still under Communist rule and closed off to the rest of the world.
	www.thelivingjarboe.com /discuss/messages/101/1348.html?1155177821 (226 words)

	NQuit
		Mirage provided some movie samples and drum sampling...for some drums, I sampled the other synths with Mirage and layered the two sounds (Mirage can change a sound quite a bit).
		The breakbeat from interlude one was recorded to Darwin off CD and edited and pasted to loop and vary it.
		The record noise on "Banetai" was sampled to Mirage from a cassette and looped.
	www.nquit.com /articles_specific.php?id=115 (715 words)

	Strings of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Originally, Kevin Saunderson's sampling duties were handled by an Ensoniq Mirage.
		The distinctively grainy 8-bit sound of the Mirage was a feature on many Detroit records of the time (most famously, perhaps, the Mirage provided the string stabs on Rhythim Is Rhythim's definitive 'Strings of Life') and provided a characteristically metallic edge on some of Saunderson's early classics.
		The Ensoniq was superceded by a Roland S-550 which lasted until Kevin bought his first Akai sampler, an S900.
	www.geocities.com /jahsonic/StringsOfLife.html (110 words)

	BaudAlign - Ensoniq Mirage Page
		One of the main beauties of the Mirage's filters is that they essentially turn it into a pseudo-hybrid digital / analog synth - ie., if you've got some sort of basic synth wave-form sample, the Mirage can kinda replicate the synth it came from, or create entirely new synth patches.
		Really, the Mirage is useful more as a sample player than as an actual sampler - don't get me wrong, it'll sample and do a reasonable job of it, but with the very limited memory you haven't got much to play around with, which means lots of frustrating re-sampling to get it right.
		This is a reasonably common problem with the Mirage (I've had 3 blown!!) - you play along merrily, and notice that some of the notes are not sounding.
	www.baudalign.com /lee/mirage.html (1076 words)

	Ensoniq Mirage - Specifications, pictures, prices, links, reviews and ratings
		Ensonic Mirage sounds The Mirage preceded the revolutionary EPS and EPS-16+ sampler workstations in the Ensoniq line-up.It was one of the earliest affordable sampler synths in history.
		The ensoniq Mirage room at Synthmuseum.com History and technical information about the Ensoniq.
		Ensoniq Mirage DSK @ deep!sonic Find some picts
	www.sonicstate.com /synth/ensoniq_mirage.cfm (468 words)

	Ensoniq - Mirage, ESQ1, SD-1, EPS16+
		The Mirage is not good at making HiFi reproductions of a sound, rather it takes a sound mangles it into a Mirage sound.
		Ensoniq really did a fantastic thing with this instrument - a computer based editor I would say is essential.
		An Ensoniq innovation, think of it like a series of slightly changing waveforms, but each gets played back one at a time, can change from one to the next, a sort of morphing.
	homepages.tesco.net /~david.barraclough/ensoniq/ensoniq.htm (3649 words)

	eBay Canada - Ensoniq, Electronic Keyboards, Keyboard, Piano — new and used items at discount prices on eBay.ca
		Ensoniq TS-12 Workstation Keyboard with SKB flight case
		Ensoniq ZR76 ZR 76 keyboard piano synthesizer synth
		Ensoniq ASR10 ASR 10- 23 FLOPPY DISKS or OS 3.53 $4 ech
	avail-listings.ca.ebay.com /Electronic-Keyboards_Ensoniq_W0QQloglZ1QQsacatZ64426QQsocmdZListingItemList (402 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)