Alesis QS 8

Synth i god stand. 88 veide tangenter.

https://www.vintagesynth.com/alesis/qs8

Disse begynner å bli sjeldne...fant ingen på ebay eller reverb.

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https://youtu.be/vKbmAyrO2vY?si=61EsxfiOfu8TfROs

Kan ta annet synth gear i innbytte .

Synthen er i Kristiansand ... men kan leveres strekningen opp til Oslo.

88‑note weighted hammer‑action keyboard, velocity and monophonic pressure/aftertouch‑sensitive.

Two Type 1 PCMCIA RAM/ROM card expansion slots.

64‑note polyphony.

16‑part multitimbrality.

Up to 40 individually‑editable drum sounds.

16Mb of 44.1kHz, 16‑bit internal ROM samples.

649 samples.

44 drum loops.

80 drum/percussion samples.

Up to 16Mb of extra sample storage on card.

512 preset Programs.

128 user Program memories.

400 preset Mixes.

100 user Mix memories.

Up to 1408 additional Programs on cards.

Up to 1100 additional Mixes on cards.

Poly portamento.

General MIDI compatibility mode.

https://www.vintagesynth.com/alesis/qs8

The QS8 came out on the heels of the QS7 and was an even more professional quality version - it was Alesis' flagship model! It featured a full 88-note weighted keyboard with piano style hammer-action and a strong all-metal chassis with black solid oak end-pieces. Otherwise, it's identical to the QS7, with 16 MegaBytes of sample/synthesis ROM (expandable to 32 MegaBytes), 4 stereo outputs, 4 control sliders, discrete MIDI OUT and THRU ports, a third Expression Pedal input, ADAT optical digital output, 48kHz clock input, and a second PCMCIA expansion card slot.

The QS8 is undoubtedly a powerful and flexible synthesizer capable of creating rich sounds - both acoustic and electronic. There's 64 voices of polyphony and 16 parts multitimbrality and tons of memory and expand-ability! The QS8 uses digital additive/subtractive sample playback synthesis to create high quality stereo grand pianos, organs, strings, drums/percussion, brass, woodwinds, new and classic synth textures, General MIDI, and rhythmic/sonic loops. Most of them sound pretty darn great too! Keith Emerson wrote the demo for it, as well as some patches.

As a master synth, the QS excels in it's price range, except for that tiny LCD display which makes navigating through the pages and pages of program settings pretty tedious. The QS8 implements the powerful QS Modulation Matrix, allowing users to assign virtually any controller source to any modulation parameter. There's an onboard multi-effects processor (based on the QuadraVerb 2) with four totally discrete effects busses that include reverb, delay, rotary speaker simulation, distortion, chorus and much more. With a direct Mac or PC hook-up, loading patches and editing via software is a snap! QS synths shipped with Alesis' Sound Bridge software for Mac/PC which lets you write AIFF and WAV samples, Standard MIDI Files and Program data to PCMCIA Flash or SRAM cards. It can play Standard MIDI file sequences from the expansion cards without the use of an external sequencer. For a top-quality synthesizer that isn't focused just on dance or trance, be sure to consider the QS8.