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Selling my Mirage sampler keyboard. If you want a gritty 8-bit sound this is it! Unit works great (including the disk drive), the only issue is a dent in the metal casing near the drive (I have a few photos of this in detail).
Included with the sale is a laminated parameter card, some of the original disks and a power cord.
Because this is such a heavy beast (it weighs just about 25 pounds) I'm marking as local pickup only.
Back in 1984, an unknown company called Ensoniq released its first product, the Mirage. One of the earliest affordable sampler-synths, the Mirage is an 8-bit sampler featuring a 61-key velocity-sensitive keyboard, two-digit LED display, MIDI, analog filters, and a 333-event sequencer. The Mirage features a total 128kB of (non-expandable) RAM, with a sample rate that varies from 10 kHz to 33 kHz with a corresponding sample time of between 2 and 6.5 seconds. Boot up your operating system and samples by loading a disk into the 3.5 SS/DD floppy disk drive, with each disk holding up to six samples and eight sequences (as well as a copy of the OS). Though pre-configured into two halves that can each function as two independent instruments, players can move the split point wherever they like for unique sounds for each hand.
Selling my Mirage sampler keyboard. If you want a gritty 8-bit sound this is it! Unit works great (including the disk drive), the only issue is a dent in the metal casing near the drive (I have a few photos of this in detail).
Included with the sale is a laminated parameter card, some of the original disks and a power cord.
Because this is such a heavy beast (it weighs just about 25 pounds) I'm marking as local pickup only.
Back in 1984, an unknown company called Ensoniq released its first product, the Mirage. One of the earliest affordable sampler-synths, the Mirage is an 8-bit sampler featuring a 61-key velocity-sensitive keyboard, two-digit LED display, MIDI, analog filters, and a 333-event sequencer. The Mirage features a total 128kB of (non-expandable) RAM, with a sample rate that varies from 10 kHz to 33 kHz with a corresponding sample time of between 2 and 6.5 seconds. Boot up your operating system and samples by loading a disk into the 3.5 SS/DD floppy disk drive, with each disk holding up to six samples and eight sequences (as well as a copy of the OS). Though pre-configured into two halves that can each function as two independent instruments, players can move the split point wherever they like for unique sounds for each hand.
