Ensoniq Mirage Sampler Reviews & Prices

Ensoniq Mirage Sampler

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Lol Tolhurst

"Basically, the synth is the only instrument that offers such a wide variety of sounds. It also lets you play instruments you could never play unless you spent ten years practicing. On the new album, for example, there are some [Ensoniq] Mirage sounds on "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep." With all the will in the world, you'd have to be very, very good to be able to play that on a sitar. But if you sit with the keyboards a minute, you can play it. Another example is the koto on "Kyoto Song" [from *The Head On The Door*], which was a [Yamaha] DX7 preset."
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Kid Koala

Kid Koala seen using a Ensoniq Mirage 8-bit Digital Multi-Sampler in his studio in a picture posted on his official Facebook.
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Vitalic

According to this interview, Vitalic made his fist album with only 3 pieces of equipment: "When I made the EP I only had an Elka Synthex, a Mirage sampler - even though I don't really consider that an instrument - and an RSF Kobol…""
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Stuart Price

"I love the Yamaha TX7, the Casio CZ-101, the ARP 2600, Ensoniq Mirage, Roland MKS-50, and the EMS VCS3. I like to have them around mainly for inspiration. In my experience, turning away and just focusing on a different object in front of you can yield good results."
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Josh Silver

"This is what I use. ... a Mirage antique sampler and a DSP-5 effects processor. ... f*ckinJosh" The Mirage sampler is the third unit down in the left hand rack case.
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DJ Hard Rich

In this Instagram photo, DJ Hard Rich shows off his collection of vintage rackmount Ensoniq samplers including the Ensoniq Mirage, Ensoniq EPS M, and Ensoniq EPS 16+.
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Dan Donovan

"I've got the old bog-standard Akai S900, a Prophet VS which I think is a very under-rated keyboard, a Mirage and an Oberheim Matrix 6", he reveals. "The VS has got some great sounds, although the keyboard tends to be a bit mushy. There's a great function on it where you can make random waveforms and random sounds ad infinitum. It just comes up with some fantastic Dr Who 'dalek sounds' and all kinds of weird stuff. Having said that, I like sampling myself. I like sounds that are real. I never got into programming, I was never very good at that."
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Kurt Harland

"We rely pretty heavily on the Prophet 2000 sampler, although it was not my choice. It just happened to be what turned up in my studio. Everyone seems to say that the actual sound quality of the 2000 is very, very good, better than most, but I don't particularly like it. I got upset right away that you can only transpose it up a very short distance. I was using a Mirage before, which is supposedly a much less sophisticated thing, but you could transpose over five octaves. Other than that, I'll admit it's a pretty good sampler."
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Borai

In this video you can see Borai's Mirage Sampler in the rack
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Beautiful and gritty!...the best filters ever!

Is not a sampler that is going to give you a perfect reproduction of a real instrument, at all....It´s noisy, harsh and gritty....and hence...it´s beautiful!!! Although it´s digital it has analog filters..and they are amazing!! The only downside i could mention is that the sequencer hasn´t got enough memory and the memory cartridge is very expensive too , and hard to find. I love to bits this sampler

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Ensoniq Mirage Sampler

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