Ensoniq Mirage DSK-8 Digital Sampling Keyboard 1984 - Grey
This was purchased by me back in the 1980's. Utilized mostly at home and in the studio. Played a few live gigs with it back around 1986 - 1988. It comes with the ISF-1 Input Sampling Filter, power cable, and the 19 discs shown. A caveat being that as with 3.5 floppy discs (even in the best of times) there can be disc errors when loading sounds/banks. I've gone through all of them and tried loading each and every sound. The first time I went through and loaded each disc I had an error when loading which I indicated with a red circle around "Male Choir 3 Female Choir" on disc 17.0. Later when loading in some of the discs again I got Disc Error on a few others that had loaded perfectly fine earlier. I suppose that's to be expected with a floppy drive and discs that are approximately 40 yrs old. I've tried to give you a solid picture of the machine showing the minor scuffs & scrapes which are mostly on the end caps. Otherwise the unit is in really good appearance. I've had this Mirage in storage for the past 20+ years and have finally decided that I'll likely never get around to actually using it since I haven't even played any keyboard other than messing around on a friends piano a few times....my hands just don't move like they did back then. There is no manual or foot switch, although the manual can be found online with a quick search. I found 2 manuals: ensoniq_mirage_dsk-1_dsk-8_musicians_manual. And: ensoniq_mirage_advanced_sampler's_guide. I downloaded them and could probably forward them if you can't find them with a simple search. Here is a link to the YouTube video I created to show the Mirage loading a bank of sounds and playing each key. Then a couple clips of some fun things I sampled back in the day.
This may be a little unorthoxeod but since I don't have a nice Flight case for it (and it weighs a lot) I'm looking for Local Pickup. But I will deliver it within most of Southern California area for free. I'd much rather spend a little time and a tank of gas to make sure it arrives undamaged. If that works for you great, it will ride safely with me to you.
Update Oct17: I just found my original manuals and 2 sided plastic Reference guide. These are now included in the listing as pictured.
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| Condition | Very Good (Used) Very Good items may show a few slight marks or scratches but are fully functional and in overall great shape.Learn more |
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