ancient software that you still remember thread

[ghettosynth]

There was also an alternative OS that allowed you to use the Mirage more like a synth. I can't remember the name of it, I had it for a while, I sold it with my last Mirage.

On Edit:

Ah yes, the Soundprocess OS

What did you think of Soundprocess?

A few times, I've thought about buying it for my Mirage, but haven't gotten around to it. (My Mirage needs a disk drive repair, before I purchase anything else for it.)

I'm not sure that I'm the person to ask TBH. I'm pretty judgy about this sort of thing. I sold my Mirage after all and I don't regret it at all.

If you had no other synth and you have a Mirage then Soundprocess gave you a hybrid subtractive synth with a CEM filter, albeit, with all digital envelopes and LFOs and relatively lofi oscillators digitally generated with 8-bit DACs. As long as you don't mind the 2-digit LED programming and you want something of a LOFI sound then it's probably worth having.

[paradiddle]

I come from the c-64 era but when I had my atari st (and an ste), this is where I learned about midi with pro-24 and forth. I also had an st-replay cartridge to sample that I used eventually with a software called digital impakt (french). Always dreamed of owning an akai s-900 but it was too much for me to afford at the time. Then trackers started to come out and it was easy to do some beats using sampled sounds. Wasn't my preferred way of working though.

[D-Fusion]

Audiosim made in 1996 for Dos

[jancivil]

I remember some thing for Ensoniq Mirage which installed on the Mac, the first Mac I believe, 128k beige Mac whose OS lived on a floppy. Before that, the only thing to do was via the LCD, which is about the size of my thumb, in HEX. Yes, defining loop points - absolutely essential given the small memory - by Hexadecimal on a tiny LCD. Then some software and a GUI! And we were STYLIN'. I had never heard of hexadecimal system before but my housemate ran the computer room for Bank of America ATM system back then and he knew all the computer stuff. I actually got to recognize hex, I have no fricken clue today.

Just a point of information. The Mirage had a two digit 7-segment LED display.

Ok, fine. I would have to research what that second sentence actually means. I suspect it mo' less agrees with my notion 'it was very small'. And thus a PITA to write hex strings in, which is all there was for a person of my means.
Except splicing tape.

The cool thing about those days was, I would go out and field recording and plug the Walkman Pro into the Mirage and sample it. And throw fidelity to the winds!