Re: New to QS world...which qcards to get?

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Posted by Richard on February 16, 2002 at 16:22:31:

In Reply to: New to QS world...which qcards to get? posted by Eric on February 15, 2002 at 19:28:14:


Hey Eric, aren't you lucky?
Well, I have an 8.1, and it seems the programs which come loaded on the Q-cards are different than those on the synth. Some of the programs in the synth are ALSO on the Q-cards-but most are not. Make sense?
For instance, the Vintage Synth Q-card has programs not found on the 8.1 no matter how you look. Alesis uses a few programs from all or most of the Q-cards, along with others, to form the banks which are already installed on the synth. They usually have the same names too.
If you get a piano Q-card, like the Sterio Grand Piano, you will find some programs already on your synth, but the thrust of the card will be new stuff.
Bye the way, I hear the above mentioned card is very good. Maybe others out there have the same opinion?
I have the Vintage Synthesizers and Sanctuary cards, and think they are fantastic.
At zZounds.com or Kraft Music.com they cost 99 bucks! Well worth the coin.
Don't forget to check out the EXPANDO banks that come on the CD along with your synth, (they are the ones called QS678ATM.SYX, etc., in the QS Synth/SysEx Format folder. Whoa! Pretty good stuff hiding in there! You need a program to load those banks into the USER bank on the synth, and from there load them onto an S-ram card for storage. Read manual. I use a Mac, and the provided "Freeloader" program does not work at all. Find another.
Sorry to go off a tangent like that. Anywho, Alesis would have a heck of a time marketing Q-cards if they were redundent, no?
Have fun with that 7.1.

Regards, Richard.

P.S. Anybody out there have a different view? Let's hear it.





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