Alesis PCMCIA - Revision history

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 Alesis also provided a number of official card expansions, albeit their rarity makes any information very hard to come by in terms of exact preset/mix counts and waveform additions.
 (to do: make a table for this i think it'd be great but also add tables for "generic" cards to detail how many patches/mixes these could *store*)
 == Oddities ==

.now.its.dark. at 23:08, 26 November 2024

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			== External Links ==
			[https://benweaver.info/alesis/ Ben Weaver - Alesis Hardware Hacks]

Hikari no yume at 12:57, 28 September 2024

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	Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 ~~Back To The Time Machine.~~..], ''Sound on Sound'', June 2003.</ref>		Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 Alesis QS6.2 & QS8.2], ''Sound on Sound'', June 2003, section "Back To The Time Machine...".</ref>

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	Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 ~~Sound on Sound, June 2003 issue - "~~Back To The Time Machine..."]</ref>		Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 Back To The Time Machine...], ''Sound on Sound'', June 2003.</ref>

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MelonadeM at 12:54, 28 September 2024

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	Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 Sound on Sound, June 2003 issue - "Back To The Time Machine..."</ref>		Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 Sound on Sound, June 2003 issue - "Back To The Time Machine..."]</ref>

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MelonadeM at 12:54, 28 September 2024

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MelonadeM: Created page with "The '''Alesis PCMCIA''' standard was used across the Alesis Quadrasynth series as a way to expand the number of editable on-board presets and mixes, or as a way to include new waveforms to be used with the QS composite synthesis engine. It supported up to 8 MB of any mixture of aforementioned extra content. Unlike other contemporaries, such as the Roland SR-JV80 series, users were free and encouraged to create their own cards with their own samples, and addition..."

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Created page with "The '''Alesis PCMCIA''' standard was used across the Alesis Quadrasynth series as a way to expand the number of editable on-board presets and mixes, or as a way to include new waveforms to be used with the QS composite synthesis engine. It supported up to 8 MB of any mixture of aforementioned extra content. Unlike other contemporaries, such as the Roland SR-JV80 series, users were free and encouraged to create their own cards with their own samples, and addition..."

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The '''Alesis PCMCIA''' standard was used across the [[Alesis Quadrasynth series]] as a way to expand the number of editable on-board presets and mixes, or as a way to include new waveforms to be used with the QS composite synthesis engine. It supported up to 8 MB of any mixture of aforementioned extra content.

Unlike other contemporaries, such as the [[Roland SR-JV80]] series, users were free and encouraged to create their own cards with their own samples, and additionally had support for SampleCell formatted files. A compact disc containing the necessary software for both Windows-based systems and Apple Macintosh computers was frequently included with most Alesis Quadrasynth purchases.

== Official cards ==
Alesis also provided a number of official card expansions, albeit their rarity makes any information very hard to come by in terms of exact preset/mix counts and waveform additions.
(to do: make a table for this i think it'd be great but also add tables for "generic" cards to detail how many patches/mixes these could *store*)

== Oddities ==
Despite the standard being comparatively more permissive, in today's world it is very difficult to find compatible PCMCIA flash cards - it requires a specific type of Linear Flash cards, which were only produced by AMD and Intel. It was noted in a Sound on Sound article how difficult this was by the time the QSx.2 upgrades arrived on the market as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/alesis-qs62-qs82 Sound on Sound, June 2003 issue - "Back To The Time Machine..."</ref>

== References ==
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