Product Description
Ensoniq MR-76 64 Voice Composition Workstation
Includes Musicians Manual and Power Cord
About This Keyboard
This is my first experience with the MR 76 and I personally think it has the best sound of any of the Ensoniq keyboards. This keyboard is in very good condition with everything that I know how to test working just as it should and it comes with everything pictured plus the Musicians manual on CD in PDF format and a power cord. Cosmetically the keyboard just has the normal scuffs and scratches you should expect on a used keyboard. Every button and slider that I know how to test works just as it should. You'll have a hard time finding an MR in this nice of condition. It's heavy so shipping is a little high.
The Ensoniq MR-76 In General
The Ensoniq MR76is a 76-key weighted action music workstation synthesizerthatEnsoniqreleased in 1996. It features a 16-track sequencer, digital effects, and several hundred onboard sounds or patches.
The addition of the Idea Pad, which was essentially a MIDI capture buffer, allowed the user to quickly move anything recently played on the MIDI keyboard, including Pitchbend, Mod, and MIDI realtime Controllers, to a track in the sequencer.
The effects section runs at full 44.1 kHzquality, unlike the TS engine at 32 kHz. The routing scheme was also simplified from previous machines and sports similarities with Roland's XP machines.
All MR versions could house up to three expansion cards , each one holding up to 24 mebibytes of samples and sound data. That was a first (and last) for Ensoniq products. Three are known: Perfect Piano, Urban Dance Project and World Sounds. A fourth card, the Drums Expansion, could give the rack version a feature that was a standard part of the keyboard versions. It was a 2 mebibyte add-on and contained about 700 drum sounds. A fifth card was the aforementioned flash expansion.
You can hear some Ensoniq MR-Sounds on the Janet Jackson Song Together Again and her album The Velvet Rope from 1997.
We will do our best to accurately describe the item in the listing but, unless otherwise noted, all items are used and should be expected to show varying levels of wear and tear from regular use. We only test to the level of our ability so some functions could be defective without our knowledge. Please feel free to email any additional questions. All keyboards are guaranteed to be non-doa but are otherwise non-returnable unless approved by customer service. NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. We ship only within the contiguous US and shipping carriers may vary depending on your location.
