Ancient Ensoniq Mirage Samples and MS-DOS Utilities

Many moons ago, I used to own an Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard.

There are still a number of people using the Mirage, so here is a source of info for those souls still enjoying the 2 LED interface...

These samples and downloads originally came from the Music Software Exchange, which retailed (for nominal shipping fee) Public Domain music software. I haven't seen any further adverts for them, so all the disks I have I've put up here.

Please don't ask me for the source of the operating system disks. I sold my Mirage a long time ago and don't know anyone with one. There are many other sites devoted to people who continue to use the Mirage, or contact Ensoniq.

• The MASOS operating system diskette for the Mirage. This is different from the standard V3.2 Mirage operating system disk.
• An MPU-401 compatible MIDI interface (a Soundblaster should work) running on port 0x330. This is the default address so unless you changed something it should work.
• The files are compressed with zip which exists on many platforms, if you don't have it, do a web search.

• MSE original catalog of ancient MIDI public domain software
• MS-DOS Utilities for communicating between an IBM PC equipped with a Roland MPU-401 and a Mirage.
• MS-DOS Utilities for reading Mirage formatted disks, ESQ-1 synth sys-ex librarians, MIDI specifications of MASOS.
• Yamaha CD70 Electric Piano, Picked Bass samples
• Cars taking off, Thunder and Rain samples
• Chimes, Cave Organ samples
• Part 1 of a collection of MIDI utilities
• Part 2 of a collection of MIDI utilities
• Part 3 of a collection of MIDI utilities
• Part 1 of a collection of MIDI programming routines
• A Generic MIDI Sys-ex librarian
• Speaker design software, etc

The sample disks can be converted to .aiff (or easily any other ) with Sox. Here is a Unix script and C source to do the conversions.

Last updated Mon May 29 09:01:24 EDT 2006