Alesis Fusion 6HD digital audio workstation

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"This is a very underrated keyboard. The Fusion 6HD was released in 2007 and kinda flopped. It originally cost close to £1,200. It seemed to be that folks did not like the layout and look of the machine and the presets took a bit of a beating from the critics ( I do not know why, some of them are totally amazing) it was right up against the Yamaha Motif and Roland Fantom (although the Alesis was a good bit cheaper). Alesis then discontinued it and sold off the existing stock for just under £700 which is what we paid for ours.

Now, people are realising just how good this workstation is and they are sought after once more. Of course, you cannot buy them anymore :-( The overwhelming reason why it is so popular is the fact it has a hard drive built in and 8 channels to record audio straight on to that hard drive. So you can record and load all sorts of audio and samples straight from the internal hard drive. This is a truly fantastic feature. But then if you run out of space on your hard drive, you can connect an external one to the SATA connector and have more space available.

It also has a direct USB connection for your PC so you can arrange banks and sounds via the superb editor that I will supply on CD. There is also a set of L & R Aux outs, a handy left and right input with gain control (ideal to connect your ipod / laptop / microphone etc), a headphone socket, midi in out and thru and three foot pedal inputs for expression, sustain and switch and a compact flash card socket for saving and loading patches, songs, etc.

Then, Hollow Sun created a huge library of extra sounds and they are truly stunning. Then a very wonderful guy sampled the 'Vox Humana' preset from his Polymoog keyboard (Gary Numan - Cars and loads of other songs on The Pleasure Principle and Telekon) and all of a sudden the true power of the Fusion was realised."