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!
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!
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!
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".
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.
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.
@@2Niche4U 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.
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?
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.
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?
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)
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?
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.
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.
Let's see who's the first to post band name and song title at 01:11 (probably will be a Gen-Xer).
@@couchcamperTM nop
Nop - sorry, not the Sex Pistols either. As you can hear in the demo, this song used xylophone.
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
@@ericlee8344 th-cam.com/video/oHMJE0rcb8M/w-d-xo.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!
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!
3:45 -
That sample is used in Inner City - Good Life! There's no way I'd fail to recognise that!
In the 1994 Intel theme, the Ensoniq Mirage patch "Marimba" was heard.
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!
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!
Always the right musical phrase for the sound.
And when you think of the tiny memory what brilliant sounds!👍
Absolutely!
In some probably 1985 song, the Enonsiq Mirage patch "Electronic Drums" was heard.
the pipe organ was the one used in the phantom of the opera btw
The famous Inner City Good Life Ah and Do samples .
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".
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.
I had a feeling you'd know that song! The bass guitar part on it is brilliant as well.
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
Lots of synths say 1980s, but few iconic synths scream late 1980s as this one does.
Late?
@@2Niche4U 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.
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?
That "Ah" is at least on Inner City's song "Good Life", a classic piece of Detroit Techno / House.
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
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?
this is 100% miami sound machine
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)
@@EgoShredder hell yeah
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
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?
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.
@@SynthManiaDotCom 🎉 thank you as always. ❤️ Have a nice weekend. 👍
lotsa Skinny Puppy sounds at the beginning
Was this a Rompler?
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.