8-8-2024 a lot of interest in the Fusion today :)

[Jesse]

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[Jokeyman123]

Chris and i have been trying to educate the Facebook Fusion group members to come here. Apparently many have no idea this resource exists, and thanks to Jesse, they can benefit from years of experience/know-how here. There is so much history you have saved.

Perhaps....Numark would take a look here and all the renewed interest, and think about reviving the Fusion. With all the other cheap products they're churning out-digital drums excepted...I see nothing in their catalog that approaches what this was and is.

They must still have the copyrights-get in touch with Taiho, other developers, they might be interested in revisiting this, wouldn't have to do much, its pretty much all there already. A few minor easy to accomplish updates, this could compete with anything on the market or better it IMO. Faster data bus for the drive(s) including an outboard working SATA port, color touchscreen, more sample RAM and a high impedance guitar input or 2. 8-9 faders like the Kurzweils, Kronos, Montage, Roland.The chips inside have more capabilities that were not implemented in the Fusion but are there-read the data sheets, these are still formidable chips, just don't use lead-free solder which caused some of the problems. I know this because i sent out a mainboard to be diagnosed by a tech outfit and that is the defect they found, failed connections with at least one of the main ICs due to bad solder joints in the surface mount ball joints.

Maybe a redesign of the shell although I like that it is different than everything else. Add a slide-out cup/snack tray now its one step better than all of them!!!!

[parametric]

Sadly - I think its all too late . . . .

The original owner of Alesis was the innovator, driving force and good ideas guy . . .
When it was sold to Akai/Numark and ultimately InMusic - it became a "Badge" - and a million miles away from where the Fusion came from . . . .

It was all over when I heard that InMusic had "skipped" the remaining spare parts of the Fusion to make room for
spare parts from "Newer" Products . . . .

The Alesis "Badge" doesn't now carry much, product-wise to inspire me . . . .

The Teams that conceived the Fusion are dispersed and into other areas - and the driving force that WAS Alesis is gone and so unable to call them back . . . .

VSTs are the way ahead I guess

Keyboards such as they are are moreorless Computers with a keybed attached . . . . .

Endless chewing the fat in that other forum puts these boards in the role of Male Jewellery, rather like SLRs in the 70s . . .

endless nitpicking about weighted/nonweighted, AT and PAT, Analog/digital etc etc

The Motage8x has been out for ages, but I've heard bu66er all music made on it apart from sponsored demos.

If you believe all you read - then all that is required is to buy in a bunch of cinematic sweeps and a pack of midi-loops that "someone else" has put together and you are Instant "Hans Zimmer"

Talent has no place in modern Music creation - even more so with AI

AI means only one thing to the bottom-line-mentality morons out there . . . .

The chance to make money without doing any Work . . . . . . . hell - who needs TALENT?

And with likes of Google - STEALING forum contents and calling it their own - society is knee deep in the Brown stuff.

Google are rich enough to be above the Law and will do what it likes . . .

They can own Law enforcers, Police, Judges, politicians and probably governments - just small change to them.

They should all be hung by the scrotum from the nearest lamp post . . . . as an example to discourage such stupudity . .

/rant