![]() A company called Maartists offered both 4x and 8x memory expanders, allowing a total of 2Mwords RAM. Ensoniq offered both a 2x (512Kword) Memory Expander and a 4x (1Mword) Memory Expander with SCSI interface. The EPS came with 256 Kwords of RAM on board. It booted from an integrated floppy disk drive (sourced from Sony or Matsushita), or from a SCSI drive connected to the expansion bay. The display was a 22 character single line vacuum fluorescent display. Because it had two processors, it could load and play up to eight instruments simultaneously (with another eight on reserve). The EPS had a straightforward interface that was easy to use, with configurable controls geared for live performance. The EPS was a 13 bit sampler and replaced the Mirage - widely regarded as the first truly affordable sampling keyboard. ![]() It was manufactured from 1988 to 1991 by Ensoniq in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA. The EPS ( Ensoniq Performance Sampler) was one of the first few affordable samplers on the market.
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