Product: Quasimidi QM-309
Price Paid: US $1000
Submitted
09/05/1997
at
12:31pm
by
Anonymous
Ease of Use
:
10
I love this thing. You can turn it on, press a button, tap in a few beats and then you have a song. In addition to the ease of creating songs, for live stuff it's amazing. I mean, everything else is just so-so, but the live capabilities really make it what it is. All channels have lots of knobs and mutes, and there are loop tracks you can do for live stuff... you can change all the sounds, ALL REALLY EASY.
Features
:
8
Hmmm, well it has like 127 nice bass synths plus 63 or so drum kits. It has a built in sequencer that's nice to use, but still kind of limited compared to like Cakewalk or something. It has built in delay, chorus, equalizer. I would say it's kind of like the MC-303, except that everything is more customizable. The Rave-O-Lution could kick the MC-303's ass any day.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
7
The sounds are good, especially for only $1000 and it comes with so many. Has some basics, TR-808, TR-909, stuff like that. The bass contains a few TB-303s but they aren't too good. Don't react well when you modify them. I'd say the other bass sounds are really good, though. It has a bunch of knobs and you can make some really crazy sounds.
Reliability
:
10
It's reliable. I've never had it break down or encountered a bug. Well, if you press all the mute buttons on the channels at once it sometimes doesn't work, but that's not really a big thing. It's never busted so I guess it's pretty reliable.
Customer Support
:
7
The tech support was ok, except that the company is based in Germany. They have an american distributor in Jersey but that was a long distance call. It was good other than that. They have email but they don't speak that fluent of English. Oh well.
Overall Rating
:
8
It's a good addition to a studio. Kind of barren by itself. I use it with a keyboard, and even that sounds kind of bare.
