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Vintage Synthesizers and Classic Beatboxes Q Card (Z5)
Expansion card

From the back cover of the box:

"The 8 Megabyte VIntage Synthesizers and Classic Beatboxes QCard™ contains the groovy synth soundsand lo-fi drum hits from the dawn of the age of electronic music.  All of your favorite analog synthesizers from the late '60s through the mid '80s are represented in their best form.  You can expect the classic fat, warm and rich waveforms that VCO-based synths provided in their heyday.  You'll also get long resonant filter sweeps as well as cool bandpass and highpass filtered waves.  Additionally, you'll get a great collection of your all-time favorite drum machines as well as examples of rare machines that let you stand out from the crowd.  Whether you're performing rock songs, composing period-piece film scores or adding smooth sounds to hip hop, techno or R&B tunes, this card is the real thing for vintage synths and electronic drums.

This QCard's superior sonic quality comes from 16-bit, 48kHz linear, master-quality samples and state-of-the-art synthesizer voicing.  Its massive eight megabytes of sound ROM contain hundreds of carefully-recorded samples that are completely compatible with all Alesis QuadraSynth® and QS Series™ synthesizers.

The Vintage Synthesizers and Classic Beatboxes QCard contains 128 Programs and 100 multitimbral Mixes.  Also included are two floppy disks for Macintosh™ and Windows computers™, each containing 256 additional Programs, 200 Mixes and the Alesis FreeLoader™ application."

Factory Demos:

1 - Syzygy - by David Bryce

2 - Volt Age - by Gretchen

Stream:

Stream all the  examples below as an .m3u playlist

Individual Listening: