Let's see who's the first to post band name and song title at 01:11 (probably will be a Gen-Xer).

@SynthManiaDotCom

Жыл бұрын

@@couchcamperTM nop

@SynthManiaDotCom

Жыл бұрын

Nop - sorry, not the Sex Pistols either. As you can hear in the demo, this song used xylophone.

@ericlee8344

Жыл бұрын

Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

@timothydahlin5321

Жыл бұрын

@@ericlee8344 kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXyBrKdposbIaLA.html

The Grand Piano is amazing for it's size! So are the organs and harp.

128 Kilobytes of memory! Yet listen to the sounds.. Outstanding for its day! Even impressive today!

@SynthManiaDotCom

Жыл бұрын

Wholeheartedly agree!

The BUM and DO sounds made me laugh. For some reason it reminds me of the soundtrack used in the Nick show DOUG. The Pipe Organ sounded amazing! Real phantom of the opera sounding. Nice work!

Always the right musical phrase for the sound. And when you think of the tiny memory what brilliant sounds!👍

@SynthManiaDotCom

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Anything I ever sampled into my Mirage came out huge and crunchy and would fit anywhere. You are not limited to what is on the factory disks if you’re at all clever! 😆👍🏼 Thanks Paolo!

In the 1994 Intel theme, the Ensoniq Mirage patch "Marimba" was heard.

this is 100% miami sound machine

@EgoShredder

Жыл бұрын

I asked ChatGPT what they used and if they used the Mirage and this was its reply: 1. Yamaha DX7 2. Korg Polysix 3. Moog Prodigy 4. Roland Juno-106 5. Oberheim OB-Xa 6. Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 7. Casio CZ101 Synthesizer 8. Akai S1000 Sampler 9. Roland TR-808 Drum Machine 10. E-mu SP-12 Sampling Drum Machine 11. Emulator II Sampling Keyboard 12 Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard (Yes)

@windmill7708

Жыл бұрын

@@EgoShredder hell yeah

In some probably 1985 song, the Enonsiq Mirage patch "Electronic Drums" was heard.

The famous Inner City Good Life Ah and Do samples .

3:45 - That sample is used in Inner City - Good Life! There's no way I'd fail to recognise that!

One of the disks that you haven't covered - I think it was in set "C" - is a split with distorted vocal sounds. The moment I loaded it on my Mirage I was delighted to find out it was the sounds used on one of my favourite industrial songs, "1,000,000th Happy Customer" by the Cassandra Complex. They also made heavy use of the orchestral sounds from the Roland S series library on another great track of theirs, "Nightmare Over EC".

@SynthManiaDotCom

Жыл бұрын

Haven't covered it *yet because it's in set "C" (so far I posted A and B). I was a "dark" teenager back then and I actually bought that very album when it came out (I still have it in Italy), and that classic sample is "Low Mondo Voices" disk. Stay tuned for posting it soon.

@chriswareham

Жыл бұрын

I had a feeling you'd know that song! The bass guitar part on it is brilliant as well.

Lots of synths say 1980s, but few iconic synths scream late 1980s as this one does.

@MoonLanta

Жыл бұрын

Late?

@Peter_S_

Жыл бұрын

@@MoonLanta Yeah, by the time a couple years had passed since the Mirage's intro, a large number of recordings featured these sounds so I would put the sonic imprint of this synth in history as having mainly occured in the mid and later 1980s. Apple's final computer in their original Apple ][ line was released in 1986 and featured the same DOC5503 oscillator chip which was used in the Mirage, the ESQ series, the SQ-80, and possibly more so those uses added to the late 1980s framing for these sounds. Sampling wasn't so much of a thing in the early 1980s largely thanks to the cost of memory at the time.

0:19 All the sounds of Lil' Louis "The Original Video Clash" . The Mirage is such a stapple in the Detroit Techno and House music history. Thanks for the video!

Oh yes! The Plastic Hose twirled about the head. I have that one. I used that sound in a band back 1988 when doing Robert Palmer's I didn't Mean to Turn You On.

La la la... brilliant

This is the keyboard from the keyboard cat meme. The meme uses the Mirage DSK-1

That "Ah" is at least on Inner City's song "Good Life", a classic piece of Detroit Techno / House.

@AutPen38

Жыл бұрын

The "Do" as well. I think the preset split the keyboard for those two sounds and Paulo made a video ages ago of him showing how the two sounds worked together on the Inner City track.

2:44 that sounds exactly like the piano sound they used in the super smash bros melee break the target level

That pipe organ @15:46 is huge! It sounds just like the pipe organ in the Phantom of the Opera overture. I’ve never heard anything like it anywhere else it’s an incredible sound. Why is it so elusive? It’s almost 40 years old now. It can’t be that hard to re-create. Is that exact patch available as a VST anywhere?

Some sounds are understandably dated by today's standards and tastes but most are pretty usable, to my ears at least.

Jam and Lewis used the CARL & TCHAIKOVSKY HITS a lot on the Control Album

Could someone please answer a question? Approximately how many samples were laid across the keyboard, and stacked for velocity cross-fades with the Cello and String samples?

lotsa Skinny Puppy sounds at the beginning

Hi! Question, so these are the original disks that came with the mirage? Are you telling me there were 20 disks that came included? Also, do you know if the same sounds or disks came with the Ensoniq - EPS?

@SynthManiaDotCom

9 ай бұрын

Not included, you bought the 30 disks separately, like other samplers of the era. The EPS had a different library, although it incorporated some of the older Mirage samples in some of the disks.

@dpalaoro

9 ай бұрын

@@SynthManiaDotCom 🎉 thank you as always. ❤️ Have a nice weekend. 👍

Was this a Rompler?

@AutPen38

Жыл бұрын

It was a sampler (you could record and play back your own sounds), but also had factory sounds on discs, which is effectively the same as storing them in ROM.