Getting Ready To Play - Mirage DSK-1 Manual

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GETTING READY TO PLAY

The Mirage is a two-part instrument

part instrument - hardware and software. By itself, the hardware won't make

hardware and software. By itself, the hardware won't make

a sound. It needs the information on the diskettes to start doing its work. Getting this information

into the right location in the hardwa

into the right location in the hardware is known as Loading.

The first diskette you put in the drive when you turn the Mirage on is very important, because the

Mirage takes its operating system from this disk ("boots" from that disk, in computer terms). The

operating system tells the Mirage

operating system tells the Mirage hardware what to do. Because it is basically a computer, the

hardware what to do. Because it is basically a computer, the

Mirage can behave like several totally different machines, with totally different capabilities,

depending on which operating system it is "booted" with.

When you turn the Mirage on and insert a

When you turn the Mirage on and insert a diskette, the hardware will automatically load sound

diskette, the hardware will automatically load sound

#1 and its four programs into the memory. You will have to follow a certain procedure when you

wish to change sounds or diskettes. The procedure is quite simple and only takes a few seconds.

Here's the complete sequence.

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