Ensoniq Mirage DSK CLOTHING Released in 1980

Released in 1980

Why this unit even has individual outputs for each of its drum tones

The SH-5 has just about two of everything

One of the rarest pieces of equipment from EMS

The final sound was heard ('triggered') from the system by pressing a key on an attached keyboard or pressing on the ribbon controller

Ensoniq Mirage DSK CLOTHING Released in 1980The Mirage was an 8 bit sampler capable of a maximum sampling rate of 32kHz with a limited 128Kb of RAM. Those are pretty old school specs by today's standards and while it does mean your sounds will be somewhat lo fi, that does not mean low quality. A built in 3. 5 inch DD disk drive was used to load and store samples, sequences even the operating system. Each disk could hold up to 6 samples and 8 sequences. The keyboard is split in to two