This also means that our backlog of CD/DVD's will be manufactured and sent out. Be looking for a address confirmation email from us!
OK, we all know that the word VINTAGE is merely a sales pitch. When you call a Ensoniq Mirage VINTAGE, you're giving it too much credit! The word is ANCIENT =) but that doesn't mean such old samplers aren't useful - they are!
They're actually very fun to work with and use. We're talking about the Akai S900-series, the Roland S5x-Series, the Korg DSS-1, and the Emu Emax 1-Series. (Maybe more if you email us and make a stink about it.) All those 12-bittish samplers with less memory than a cow.
In part, these samplers have been encouraged for use by the new wave of SD-card floppy emulators. Since none of them support SCSI in any way, and floppy drives are so hard to work with, these emulators allow you encode the small floppy-sized images and put them on a SD-card and use that in the emulator to load on the sampler.
Chicken Systems is ramping up support for these samplers, they should be all fully supported by the holidays.
IN THE BEGINNING... there was Rubber Chicken Software Co. We created 5-10-15-disk floppy sets for Ensoniq samplers.
For our holiday sales, we are offering a very limited supply of our floppy sets - which used to a still sell for $30-$40 - for $1.98 each! The reason for this is we've been imaging our entire 10,000 floppy archive so we can recycle the floppies and get them out of our studio (which has less and less room every day). Instead recycling the masters, we're shrink-wrapping them up and practically giving them away. So limited supply really is limited supply. Click here for a current listing... please understand they are NOT on sale yet. This is just so you can get interested and get ready to order something you're interested in before it gets snapped up.
Lately, we've been really enjoying our monthly copy of the English-published Sound-On-Sound magazine. A PRINTED magazine, yes. And not only is it printed, but it's LARGE. I don't mean to put down the legendary mags like Keyboard and Electronic Musician, but those barely hit 50 pages whereas SOS always comes in at 175 ppg. And they are packed with relevant, well-written, diverse, and current articles.
What we like about an information magazine like SOS is that it brings us information we wouldn't ordinarily look for on the Internet. SOS has articles about everyday budget tools and also about $3000 tube microphones and silly-priced preamps and compressors. It has pieces on professional mixers and artists, and reviews software and sample libraries by professionals who know how to write and how these things relate to pros, semi-pros, and home recordists. Consider what the last two issues had in them:
The news-making Roli Seafoam keyboard
Recording brass - small ensemble
Expensive ribbon mic review
OPINION: Does better gear equal better recordings?
Regular Sample Library Review section
Orchestral Brass Roundup review section by the indominatable Dave Stewart
Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6 review
Yamaha ReFace review (those itty-bitty keyboards that fully encompass great rhodes, B3, CS80, and other sounds)
We understand that the Internet is an A-1 information source, but honestly there's nothing like getting it summarized and described in print, with great pictures and authoritative reviews. SOS does this so well and we feel it's worth it to give it a strong mention and encourage you to subscribe. $60US can be considered a lot of money, especially when many times you can find similar and even more updated info on the web, but trust us it is so worth it. (Even so, they have a web edition for about 50% less.)
We're here to help! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email us at [email protected], or call 800-877-6377 or 320-235-9798 to speak with an engineer, or Chat at our link at www.chickensys.com. We'd be happy to talk with you and answer your questions and help in any way possible.
Since the start of fall we've been working on lots of new technologies to put in our 
IN THE BEGINNING... there was Rubber Chicken Software Co. We created 5-10-15-disk floppy sets for Ensoniq samplers. 
