{"id":2170,"date":"2024-05-18T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=2170"},"modified":"2024-05-27T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T05:57:45","slug":"ensoniq-mirage-sampler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/ensoniq-mirage-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensoniq Mirage Sampler \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Back in the day, long long ago, I was able to borrow an AKAI S612 Sampler <\/a>which I used on an album called Come Visit The Big Bigot<\/em>. But when it came to touring this LP around Europe and North America I chose to take a Mirage rack – which was stolen in the first week of the tour. I had to then buy and lug a huge Mirage Keyboard which I came to hate, and it went as soon as I could afford something more luggable – unfortunately the Roland MKS-100 and quick discs. (Pro tip: it’s not like the MKS-80<\/a>. At all.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I can’t claim a long experience with the Mirage – just intense. I would buy another Mirage rack in a heartbeat because it wasn’t just a sampler, rather a synthesiser with an excellent filter that happened to have sample playback. Many of my sounds were tight buzzy little loops that made an excellent variety of textures once filtered. Editing 8-bit sounds using hexadecimal was more about synthesis by ear than long elaborate soundalikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On television in 1986, showing off the Mirage rack for a kid’s music show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are now plenty of 8 bit software samplers with filters you can use (by TAL<\/a>, Arturia and many others). I don’t really desire to set my loop points in hex. But damn it, I wonder what my music would have been like if I hadn’t had my suitcase pulled out of the van by some Spanish git. It was many years later that I bought the Ensoniq EPS16 and then the glorious ASR-10<\/a>. Welcome home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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