![]() ![]() Introduced in 1984, the Mirage was a “sampler”, a device that can record and play back digital audio at different pitches, based on the input it recieved over MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a standard for connecting electronic instruments together established in 1983.) This allowed for real-sounding acoustic instruments, such as pianos, strings or drums. If you had parents with deep pockets you could’ve afforded Ensoniq’s Mirage. If you were a budding musician but not a serious chip hacker, your options for instrument timbres were largely limited to the default sawtooth, triangle, pulse and noise – as such, any music you made still mosty resembled the bleep-bleep-bloop made by arcade machines in the late 1970s – not terribly cool amongst the hip kids of the mid-1980s. While the SID chip in the Commodore 64 was a classy piece of tech, it was really complicated to program.
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