Quasimidi

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Quasimidi Musikelektronik GmbH was a German synthesizer manufacturer from Hesse. It was founded in 1987 by Friedhelm Haar and Jörg Reichstein. It was originally based in Kirchhain, but moved to Rauschenberg in 1998. The company folded in 2000. During the early part of its life, the company produced MIDI master keyboards, and later the Quasimidi Styledrive, which could store and replay MIDI sequences and SYSEX/CC messages. The company also produced an upgrade kit to expand the capabilities of the popular Roland E-20 keyboard, as well as several ROM cards for the E-20 offering additional accompaniment styles. Subsequently, they became notable for their range of synthesizers, which were aimed primarily at the dance music market of the day. Their first popular synthesizer was the Quasimidi Quasar, a rack-mounted digital synthesizer module which was released in 1993. The presets and drum sounds eschewed the typical General Midi specification, which was in vogue at the time, in favour of electronic and trance techno styles. The Quasar included an arpeggiator, which was an unusual feature in 1993. Whereas the Quasar was a two-unit rackmounted box, Quasimidi's subsequent instruments migrated into the desktop & full-size form factors. Quasimidi was one of the first modern synthesizer companies to re-introduce knobs, lit buttons, and dials to synthesizer control interfaces, notably with the Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution 309 of 1997. This was a module which combined a pattern-based sequencer with a drum section and a synthesizer section. It competed in the "groovebox" market segment against Roland's popular MC-303. Quasimidi released a keyboard version of the Rave-O-Lution, as the Quasimidi Sirius, which included a built-in vocoder. Quasimidi also built the Raven, a full size sample-based Virtual Analog synthesizer, which offered a unique sequencer implementation, allowing for the keys to be used both for muting/unmuting and transposition of tracks. It also featured...