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Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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Very informal ad hoc demo of some of the thousands of Sounds ("Programs"=Fusion-speak) available in my Fusion 8HD.

Aside for the ROM based Programs, variety is virtually limitless when you consider the HD based Banks you may have added yourself . . .



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Re: Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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Wonderful to hear you play the fusion Chris!

Still an amazingly versatile keyboard and more so when we consider it was released back in 2005. At that time I don't think there was anything like it out there?

Some of the presets are of course, showing their age and I was never a huge fan of the "Holy Grail" grand piano but they are mostly still very usable today. And with the Hollow Sun sound packs there are thousands of sounds to choose from and plenty of ways to edit and make them your own.

The Alesis Fusion is definitely a classic 👍
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Re: Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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I thought the piano-choirs sounded good, and the koto.
I've still never seen a fusion here.

Hollow Suns instruments for kontakt are good also, they maybe 'old'
some quite quirky, still very much usable.
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Was the Fusion on sale in Australia Laura?

It didn't have a long shelf life due to issues with early firmware and the quite drastic price cutting by Alesis. That kind of spooked a lot of people and the media were also not helpful. But then Alesis also didn't help matters by not fixing some bugs and not implementing some of the firware updates that were promised.

If you can get one though it is absolute classic. With four integrated synthesis types: Sample Playback, Virtual Analog, FM and Physical Modeling and being able to use them all at the same time, unlike the Yamaha EX5 for example, it is a powerhouse of a synth. Not without its quirks of course but what synth isn'?
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Re: Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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Saul wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 6:02 pm Was the Fusion on sale in Australia Laura?

It didn't have a long shelf life due to issues with early firmware and the quite drastic price cutting by Alesis. That kind of spooked a lot of people and the media were also not helpful. But then Alesis also didn't help matters by not fixing some bugs and not implementing some of the firware updates that were promised.

If you can get one though it is absolute classic. With four integrated synthesis types: Sample Playback, Virtual Analog, FM and Physical Modeling and being able to use them all at the same time, unlike the Yamaha EX5 for example, it is a powerhouse of a synth. Not without its quirks of course but what synth isn'?
I have never seen one in a music store here, I don't remember anything of them.
I was out looking for other flavours of keyboards in 2005, it was '06 it bought the J-106.
Even ensoniq was more in abundance.
Fusions maybe about, I've never seen one...
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Re: Demo of Some of the Sounds in the Fusion 8HD

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I was just looking on my alesismusic.com forum and found a guy there from Melbourne who bought a Fusion 8HD in 2008. He mentioned an upgrade from the distributor so they must have been sold in Australia :)

https://alesismusic.com/viewtopic.php?t=4582
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Saul wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 6:43 pm I was just looking on my alesismusic.com forum and found a guy there from Melbourne who bought a Fusion 8HD in 2008. He mentioned an upgrade from the distributor so they must have been sold in Australia :)

https://alesismusic.com/viewtopic.php?t=4582
Some one here has one.
That explains things a little :) bigger city
... and it's a corker of a keyboard
yep that's eastern states ...
I haven't read that kind of lingo in all the time I've lived here, next door.
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