America's Favorite Synth Family Keeps Getting Better The QS8.1™ is the newest member of Alesis award-winning QS Series of keyboards and synth modules. The QS8.1 offer an excellent selection of new features including a newly-designed backlit LCD display that's larger than that of the preceding keyboards, making them perfect for five performances.The QS8.1 also includes dedicated buttons for "Transpose" and "Sequence Select", allowing you to immediately access these functions without paging through menus. Plus, we've enhanced the General MIDI sound set so that composition and playback of compatible files are even better sounding than before, and the new Alesis Synthesizers CD-ROM software pack has been improved to offer more powerful tools for serious MIDI productions. Hundreds of Sounds, Open-Ended Expansion: Up to 32MB Simultaneously The QS Series offers an immense 16MB onboard sound library, comprising 640 programs and 500 multitimbral mixes. You'll find Alesis' highly-acclaimed stereo grand piano sounds, as well as dozens of organs, cutting-edge and vintage synth sounds, strings, brass, winds, guitars, drums, percussion, loops and much more. In addition to its great onboard collection of sounds, the QS8.1 is compatible with Alesis' QCardROM expansions, so you can add another 16MB of brand new samples and program/ mix information in nearly every musical genre by using the two rear panel card slots. The QS Series is also compatible with our Sound Bridge™ software that lets you import save and playback AIFF, WAV and other sample formats, allowing you to use your own samples or sounds from other sample libraries. Powerful, Professional Performance Tools Both the QS8.1 provides four edit/control sliders and two pedal inputs that are assignable to nearly any sound or effect modulation parameter. The QS8. 1's 88-key keyboard is fully weighted with hammer-action feel for incredibly realistic piano performances. Also, the QS8.1 includes a dedicated sustain pedal jack, pitch and mod wheels, and aftertouch for your most expressive performances. Comprehensive MIDI Productions: Alesis Synthesizer CD-ROM The Alesis Synthesizer CD-ROM which comes with each QS Series synth includes a slew of full-featured software-based MIDI production tools from innovative companies like Emagic'", Opcode- and Alesis. Built for both Mac"' and Windows* platforms, you'll get the Sound Bridge and FreeLoader applications, plus programs for sequencing and digital audio, editor/librarians, notation, extra samples, programs and mixes, sample sequences, demos and more. Innovative Interfaces, Onboard Multieffects and More The QS8.1 offers a high-speed serial data port for direct computer interfacing in addition to their MIDI In, Out and Thru connections, and the ADAT Optical output for direct digital audio connection to a wide variety of recorders, mixers and other tools that use this standard multichannel transfer protocol. The built-in multi-effects include great-sounding reverb, chorus, distortion, EQ, delay, rotary speaker simulation and more. |
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