A Word About Sound Bridge - Alesis QS6 Reference Manual

Chapter 2: Your First Session With The QS6
Your QS6 is an expandable system using the Sound Card slot on the back panel.
There are three different kinds of Sound Cards available through your Alesis dealer
or directly from Alesis:
SRAM cards: The Alesis Virtual Composer card provides an additional four banks of
Program/Mix memory. All banks can be stored to by the user, and it comes with
additional Programs and Mixes pre-stored.
QuadraCards: These read-only memory cards provide actual samples, plus the
Programs and Mixes that use them in a single card bank. Available QuadraCards
include an 8MB Stereo Grand Piano card, a Pop Rock card that includes high-quality
guitar, drum, bass, and keyboard sounds, a World/Ethnic card, a Classical card with
additional orchestral and string sounds, and a Rap/Techno/Dance card.
Flash RAM cards: If you want to burn your own custom sample cards, Flash RAM
cards are available in 2 MB, 4 MB, and 8MB sizes. Alesis Sound Bridge software will
translate from Sample Cell format to Alesis QS Composite Synthesis format, and
then you can write your own custom Programs and Mixes that use these samples.
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Included with the QS6 is a CD-ROM containing various useful software programs to
use with your QS6. Most of these programs are provided in both Macintosh™ and
IBM PC formats. Among the files contained on the CD-ROM is a software program
called Sound Bridge
Sound Bridge is a sound development utility which compiles custom samples from a
variety of sources into the QuadraSynth Voice format, and downloads the compiled
data to an Alesis PCMCIA Flash RAM Sound Card via MIDI Sysex to a QS6,
QuadraSynth Plus Piano or S4 Plus. Sound Bridge allows individuals and sound
developers to make their own Sound Cards, using whatever samples they want.
Sound Bridge makes this possible without having a PCMCIA card burner attached to
your computer. All you need is a QS6, QuadraSynth Plus Piano or S4 Plus.
Sound Bridge creates a QuadraSynth Voice (multi-sample) by loading Digidesign
Sample Cell I or Sample Cell II format Instrument files. Using this format, Sound
Bridge is able to determine key group and velocity group split points, root notes,
sample playback rates, tunings, start points, loop points, and loop tunings. Sound
Bridge can also create QuadraSynth Voices without Sample Cell Instruments by
loading single AIFF, Sound Designer, or Sound Designer II files.
Sound Bridge does NOT require Sample Cell hardware. The Sample Cell Instrument
file, or sample file, may be loaded directly into Sound Bridge from any disk (i.e. CD-
ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.). For example, a user may load data from a Sample
Cell CD-ROM, and send this data to the QuadraSynth PCMCIA Card, without ever
using Sample Cell!
The Sound Bridge folder on the CD-ROM contains the Sound Bridge application, and
an electronic manual which will give you all the information you need to know to run
Sound Bridge.
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