Quasimidi Polymorph Presets - Part 1 The Sequencer

[MrBoxxed]

this is awesome.

Joerg - you can really hear that they are yours. Such a similar sound to Spectralis...

[djyourgofromlelystad]

great sounds! Great for using in psychedelic music.I wanna have one!!

[Kriss364]

a very cool synthesizer. I can see why Klaus Schulze has so many. Great features and a fantastic set of preset sequenced sounds as well as generalised sound.

[kellyssa3]

Yeah! Very impressive sound. I'm sure this beast came from the moon ^^. Thanks for posting ;-)

[TheSynthFreq]

Cool synth. :)

TSF

[VincentsVideoVisions]

Wow, never really heard these in action before, I gotta say I'm impressed! I expected it to sound a lot more VA and 1990's cheese. I want one!

[Biopharmer]

This box sounds simply amazing for 1999!

I want one now!

[SCHAAFJOERG]

Funny listening to all my old presets I created for QM back in the nineties;-)

[Yorkshirelad69]

Hi Joerg, thanks for the comment! Stay tuned as I hope to have some more demo's up soon of your awesome creation :)

[hdprice]

@SCHAAFJOERG Sounds like were are heavily influenced by Kraftwerk (is that The Model?) and Tangerine Dream. Lovely sounds my friend. Makes me want to hunt one down on eBay...

[vjrei]

I have the quasimidi 309 drum machine, I want to sell it but I can't! the Polimorph is hard to find, very and is amazing. One of those things you need to have just because. Like those architecture books in the livingroom... well a Polymorph.

[zzzxtreme]

quasimidi had the technical know-how to compete with romplers from the big 3. focusing on purely synthesizers wasn't a good business decision. too bad they folded, wish to see a Quasimidi that compares to motif, roland G and M3.

[mutepg58]

Synthesizers is what Quasimidi is know for. Wishing a rompler out of Quasimidi is crazy talk.

[egotistic1]

Urm a rompler is a synthesizer. Sirius is a rompler.

[mutepg58]

Not its not, a rompler is a sample playback engine with Read Only Memory. They utilize a preloaded (sometimes expandable) library of sounds.

I'd explain what a synthesizer is, but I trust you can understand the difference between sound generation and sound playback.

Again, wishing a rompler out of Quasimidi is absurd. It's not what they do.

[egotistic1]

Urm yes it is actually. The synthesis engine in the Sirius (and the Polymorph) is based on samples stored in a ROM.

Yes they have editing controls and features more akin to true synthesizers, but the actual tone generation is sample based.

[mutepg58]

Discounting the drums, that is not a rompler, its simply pcm playback synthesis... like a Roland D-50, Korg DW-8000, etc. You are still confusing technologies. Just tryin to help you out man.

[mutepg58]

btw.. perhaps im being too anal, but rompler isnt the right word in regards to quasimidi. when you think rompler you think sound modules, workstations, software like gigasampler, ni kore, etc.

in pcm synthesis and wavetable synths you can combine and cross mod. waves, etc. to create unique waveforms as well as all subtractive synthesis thrown on top. romplers don't do that. romplers are like big libraries of preset samples you can add fx to, not create from scratch via wave cycles.

[egotistic1]

Your second statement is closer, but you still seem to miss the point. PCM is just a method of converting audio to a digital format, essentially just a series of samples.

All of Quasimidi's kit was based around the same synthesis engine, which used a collection of samples as a sound source. The different models from the Quasar and TechnoX right through to the PolyMorph use essentially the same engine with different features.

[egotistic1]

In fact most of the old hardware romplers used pcm synthesis with predefined presets and layers to generate their sounds. And yes the D-50 used pcm synthesis, as did most home keyboards like the Yamaha PSR's, and some sound modules also.

Technically they're all romplers with user editable presets. That doesn't mean they're not synthesizers, it just puts them into a category of synths, like true analog, wavetable etc.

The important thing is the sound generation, not the features.

[mutepg58]

my point is that you are abusing the word rompler in too broad of an aspect. pure and simple.

[egotistic1]

Back to Quasimidi....I have a Sirius, it's great but I still want the Poly.

There is nothing like the dirty sound of Quasimidi kit. As a main synth they are not ideal, they're kind of like an OB-12 in that the sounds are unique - certainly digital sounding but a quality all of they're own.

I am just not prepared to pay £700 for a PolyMorph, they are worth little more than half that at most.

[Rbrownsword]

exactly, see the Oxford English Dictionary

synthesizer • noun an electronic musical instrument producing sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies.

[inmybedroom]

Amazing synth, I have it. It sounds so punk. LOVE IT

[grooveproject]

wow, nice sequencer lines... great synth...

[576557]

what is this machine ? its sounds good, who makes it, is it new

[Yorkshirelad69]

Hi Mate, no it's not new, it's an old virtual analogue synth I bought back in 1999. These still pop up from time to time on eBay. The last one was only last week and went for just short of £400, bit of a bargain really!

[hogberto]

that's one decent hunk of synthesizer.

[synth64]

bellissimo synth

[Thalassa77]

Hello, I've posted this demo on switchedonsynthesizer.blogspot . com

[Yorkshirelad69]

Thanks but I think you might be missing the point of this demo.