A new, improved (I hope) version of

The Mirage Sampler Dumper V. 1.1!

for Windows 95.

IMPORTANT NOTE! I've just added (as of 25 February 1998) a couple of DLL's that people complained were missing, so this zip file might just work for every Windows 95 user....

Unzip the save set and run Setup.exe to install (I used a beta version of InstallShield I got with VC++ 4 Unleashed).

This program can load and save WAV files to and from an Ensoniq Mirage, and can set all the various front panel parameters.  Here is a screen shot of the program:

This is my first Visual C++ experience (you can check out my second program, S612 Sampler Dumper), which took about a month to build. I used a couple of cool tools:

• Maximum MIDI by Paul Messick (I cannot recommend this book enough) and
• A Programmer's Guide to Sound by Tim Kientzle (this book is useful but the classes would be better if you could also write sound files).

Improvements in V. 1.1 over V. 1.0:

• Uses the registry to save last-selected MIDI devices
• Defaults to WAV files for input/output
• Added primitive print feature
• Added some help
• Changed the play note dialog
• Changed the configuration retrieval stuff so you only press one button to get it all instead of Program Dump/Configuration Parameters

If someone has the Giebler file format, I'd like a copy - it might be nice to be able to save directly to that format and then we could use their tools to load diskettes with looping information et al saved directly.

Also, if anyone knows about saving/extracting looping information from WAV files, I'd like to know that for this program.

Here are some links for Mirage-related stuff:

• Don Slepian's World
• ENSONIQ Resources on the Internet
• Mirage Hacking
• Mirage-Net
• Mirage-Net Home Page
• Syntaur Productions
• The MUG Mirage Catalog
• ENSONIQ ZONE
• Ancient Ensoniq Mirage Samples and MS-DOS Utilities
• Tedz Mirage Page
• Is that a sampler ? No it's a Mirage.