Ensoniq EPS-16+

The Ensoniq EPS-16+ was one of the first keyboards used by Flake for Rammstein in 1994. It is shown briefly in parts of Achtung! Wir kommen, where Flake is seen playing Der Riecher in the Knaack Club studio with the other band members. Flake's EPS-16+ uses an OEX-6sr output expander.

Information

Flake's Ensoniq EPS-16+ is a Turbo unit, which means it has all expansions installed in it (Memory Expansion, SCSI and 1MB Flash Memory), and at first he only used floppy disks, but due to their slow read and write speeds and low storage, he decided to get an internal hard drive installed.

To get the hard drive installed, he got the German company Syntec, a company that made sample libraries (for example Wall of Sounds Volume 1, a library used by Flake), and studio equipment reparations. This is known because the hard drive adapter is made by Syntec and the keyboard has a "Syntec IHD" sticker on the right side of the keyboard's logo.

When Flake got his Ensoniq ASR-10R, also in 1994, he started using the Ensoniq EPS-16+ way less, so he decided to give it to someone. Before giving it to them, he made sure to delete most of the Rammstein related instruments, sequences and banks. The only ones left in the hard drive were files that he couldn't delete because they were corrupted. The stickers that are on the OEX-6sr Output Expander were most likely put there by the person that ended up with the keyboard because Flake only used the bus AUX 1.

In 2019, this keyboard was sold on eBay Kleinanzeigen. The buyer found out that the hard drive wasn't formatted, so he found some instruments, banks and songs (which are not actually recorded songs, but only songs composed by Flake on this keyboard). Since the hard drive was not formatted, a lot of the previously deleted Rammstein live and studio instruments/banks were able to be recovered.

List of recovered files

NOTE: This list is not complete.

Live Instruments

NOTE: These are not all the live instruments that were present in the hard drive, they were the ones that were able to be recovered. Since these were all previously deleted by Flake, it's very possible that some other instruments might have been fully deleted and will never be possible to recover them.

Title	Size (in blocks)	Notes
RAMMSTEIN	2072	The Rammstein live instrument
TIEFER	978	The Jeder lacht live instrument
STERBEN ZEIT	1095	The Der Meister live instrument
KINSKI CHOIR	987	The Heirate mich live instrument
HALLO HALLO	1212	The Das alte Leid live instrument
BRINGER	1291	The Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? live instrument
ALTER MANN	1522	The Alter Mann (demo) live instrument
SW GLAS 4	1000	The Schwarzes Glas live instrument
LAICH 8	1522	Same exact as the Alter Mann live instrument
GERUCH NEU*8	733	Corrupted instrument, most likely for Du riechst so gut

Studio Instruments and Banks

NOTE: These are not all the studio instruments that were present in the hard drive, they were the ones that were able to be recovered. Since these were all previously deleted by Flake, it's very possible that some other instruments might have been fully deleted and will never be possible to recover them.

Title	Size (in blocks)	Notes
STU FLEI TR7	468	The Weißes Fleisch studio instrument for Track 7
STU FLEI TR8	89	The Weißes Fleisch studio instrument for Track 8
STU FLE GIT3	1302	The Weißes Fleisch studio instrument for Track 3 with raw guitar samples
FLEISBANK 1	3	The Weißes Fleisch studio bank that loads the before mentioned instruments to the respective tracks
HALL NORM T8	868	The Das alte Leid studio instrument for Track 8
HALL SOLO T7	93	The Das alte Leid studio instrument for Track 7
HERZ TR 8	148	Corrupted studio instrument, most likely for Herzeleid
HERZ BANK 1	3	Corrupted studio bank, most likely for Herzeleid
STU FEUER T8	299	The Feuerräder studio instrument for Track 8
STU FEUER T7	396	The Feuerräder studio instrument for Track 7
BRINGER STU8	854	The Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? studio instrument for Track 8, also used in some early live concerts
STU BRI T 7	163	The Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? studio instrument for Track 7, also used in some early live concerts
FLAKEBL TR 6	416	Unknown studio instrument
TIEF STU T8	413	The Jeder lacht studio instrument for Track 8
TIEF STU T 6	152	The Jeder lacht studio instrument for Track 6
TIEF STU T 7	939	The Jeder lacht studio instrument for Track 7
RAMMSTU TR 8	176	The Rammstein studio instrument for Track 8
RAMMSTU TR 7	503	The Rammstein studio instrument for Track 7
ALTER STU T8	913	The Alter Mann (demo) studio instrument for Track 8, used in the Knaack Club studio and some early live concerts
ALTEPX T 7	392	The Alter Mann (demo) studio instrument for Track 7, used in the Knaack Club studio and some early live concerts
KINSKI TR 8	329	The Heirate mich studio instrument for Track 8
KI 7 CHOIR	392	The Heirate mich studio instrument for Track 7
KINSKI TR 6	65	The Heirate mich studio instrument for Track 6
STU TIER T 7	683	The Tier (demo) studio instrument for Track 7
FLAKELU TR 8	396	Unknown studio instrument
GLAS NEU6	910	Corrupted studio instrument, most likely for Schwarzes Glas
TR 8 GLAS	1288	Corrupted studio instrument, most likely for Schwarzes Glas
DAS GLAS	3	Corrupted studio bank, most likely for Schwarzes Glas
MATROSE 1	3	Unknown studio bank, most likely for Seemann

Full Songs

NOTE: These are all the songs that have been extracted to date. They're all instrumental MIDI files with varying levels of complexity. Their use and exact recording year is unknown. It is also unknown if these are all the songs that are on the HDD. If more tracks are present, they have yet to be extracted.

Title	Length
7-8TEL	02:51
DEMON SONG 1	01:33
DUB SONG	04:25
ESSITONG	02:40
ETHNO	02:54
ETHNO 2	03:22
GRUFTSONG	05:54
GIT SONG	02:00
HALLO RMX	02:27
ORCH	02:36
RIBNIBANK DUB SONG	04:24
ROSEN	04:59
STO 1	07:39
STO 2	06:10
STO 3	07:55
STO 5	03:00
STO BLUES	03:24
STO BLUES 2	04:22
STO TRANS 6	04:57
TECHNO 01	02:39
TRANCE 01	06:23
TRANCE 3	03:17
WAGNER 1	02:29