Fusion 8HD - Reviews - Music Tech Magazine

The latest feature-packed workstation from Alesis promises to fulfil your every studio need. Hollin Jones gets it together with the Fusion 8HD...

Price: £1,099.00
Manufacturer: Alesis
Website: http://www.fusionsynth.com

Alesis has been at the forefront of affordable music technology ever since the company’s MidiVerb, HR-16 drum machine and ADAT technology brought studio-quality electronics into the price range of home musicians. Its latest offering is a workstation keyboard and synth – the Fusion 8HD – that is packed with the kinds of features you might normally associate with a computer-based setup – plus a few more besides. In fact, the Fusion 8HD is more multi-functional than most keyboard workstations, incorporating a multi-engine synth, sampler, sequencer and hard disk recorder in one unit.

Score: 9

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 39
Filed under Hardware, Hardware Instruments, Synths

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Duane O'Donnell - 12 December 2007, 05:00 PM

I purchased my Alesis Fusion 6HD in January 2006, and have totally delighted with the sounds and features of this extraordinary keyboard. Over the years, I've owned many electronic keyboards, beginning with a Wurlitzer electric piano in 1965. During that time, several keyboards impressed me beyond belief - the Sequential Prophet 5, Kurzweil K250, E-mu Emax, and the Fusion. It has a sonority that is unique and distinctive. Loaded with the free Hollow Sun samples, it is a virtual repository of the greatest keyboard sounds of the past 50 years. With analog, FM, and physical modeling engines, the potentials of your own sound creations are unlimited. The 8 track digital recorder, hard drive, and sequencer are just icing on the cake. It's been a reliable keyboard, and only went in for warranty repair one time. It continues to be my musical muse.

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