Alesis QS8 Synthesizer - All 5 Demo Songs (1996) Vintage Gear

John Delta Raver

"John Raver Presents:

ALESIS QS8 SYNTHESIZER
'All 5 Demo Songs'

This Keyboard is Discontinued.

The QS Synth History -

QS6 Release Date: 1995
QS8 Release Date: 1996
Discontinued Date: 1997
QS8.1 Release Date: 1998
Discontinued Date: 2001
QS8.2 Release Date: 2002
And that was the end of the QS....

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Product Description:
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."