The Ensoniq MR61 is a 61-key music workstation synthesizer that Ensoniq released in 1996. It features a 16-track sequencer, digital effects, and several hundred onboard sounds or patches. A music workstation is piece of electronic musical equipment providing the facilities of: a sound module, a music sequencer and (usually) a musical keyboard. ... A synthesizer (spelling var. ... Ensoniq Corp. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... A patch, in terms of music synthesizers, is a sound setting. ...

This music workstation got rid of some previous classical Ensoniq features, such as polyphonic aftertouch (replacing it by a mono version) and full sound editability. Its concept of usage was also radically different from previous Ensoniq keyboards, such as the TS-10. The machine's operating system was never finished and has numerous operational and MIDI bugs. However, most of those problems were compensated by an improved 64-note polyphony, high quality 24-bit effects and a quick (but not fully editable) sequencer. 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. A music workstation is piece of electronic musical equipment providing the facilities of: a sound module, a music sequencer and (usually) a musical keyboard. ... Ensoniq Corp. ... Polyphony is a musical texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). ... An operating system (OS) is an essential software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ...

While the direct sample loading facilities of the previous TS/ASR models were lost, a rare add-on card, called the MR-Flash, allowed the MR/ZR keyboards to load up to 4 megabytes of samples into permanent flash ROM, via floppy disk drive. However, no sample library import facilities were offered, so existing ASR/TS owners couldn't use their sample files on the new machine. A drum machine with pro-quality mixable preset patterns, benefitted from the unusually large internal drumsounds library (approx. 700 samples) and was integrated with the sequencer, but it was impossible to create patterns inside the machine. Sampling may refer to: Digital sampling of audio Sampling (information theory) Sampling (music) Sampling (signal processing) Sampling (statistics) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... A megabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to approximately one million bytes. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...

The effects section runs at full 44.1 kHz quality, unlike the TS engine at 32 kHz. The routing scheme was also simplified from previous machines and sports similarities with Roland's XP machines. A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ...

All MR versions could house up to three expansion cards, each one holding up to 24 megabytes 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. The cost about $500 each. A fourth card, the Drums Expansion, was a 2 megabyte add-on which contained about 700 drum sounds, intended for the rack version (the keyboards have this expansion hardwired internally). A fifth card was the aforementioned flash expansion. Collectible card games (CCGs), also called customizable card games or trading card games, are played using specially designed sets of cards. ...

The MR76 was the 76-note weighted keyboard version. The MR-Rack (which actually appeared before the keyboard versions) shared the same architecture and sounds, with the obvious exception of the sequencer and drum machine. Also, while the rack version could take the same wave expansion cards of the keyboard counterparts, it's not compatible with the flash ROM sample-loading add-on.