From mpituch@hotmail.com Sun Nov 10 15:57:50 2002
Subject:Re: Alesis Vertigo

Greetings:

While this product sounds somewhat exciting, the 100 buck price tag makes me
very suspicious. However, who knows? It might be great..wait and see I
guess.

The reason I'm posting is because I heard Alesis was in a desperate
financial situation. Does anyone know if this is true? Considering the
excellent and reasonably priced products thay've offered us over the years,
I'm a little surprised that the company might be in trouble.

I'm using an Alesis A-DAT 'black face', 8 digital tracks for less than a
grand. The newer recorders are less than 4 or 5 bills nowadays on e-bay. The
silver face is still very cheap compared to a DA-88. I've never played their
keyboards, but, they seem to have a decent reputation for sounding good and
being durable.

What goin' on at Alesis?
Mark P.

>From: "rotosphere2001"
>Reply-To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CWSG] Re: Alesis Vertigo
>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:59:13 -0000
>
>--- In CloneWheel@y..., "Frank and Cindy Stroupe"
>wrote:
> > >If you take the plunge will you reveal all to the list?
> >
> > Don't worry, I will. I don't have the real thing (except for a
>Leslie
> >
> > I know, I know, a hundred bucks is cheap enough...but presently my
>equipment
> > budget is pretty miniscule.
> >
> > Frank
>
>Hi,
>I don't know how good the Vertigo could be for $100 but it is using
>the same engine for a good number of other effects too, using
>presumably different algorithms in soft-ware to produce the effects.
>This should lead to economy of scale and could presumably produce an
>OK product. The Electro rack, featuring stunning Hammond emulation,
>Wurlies, Clavs, Rhodes etc ( not to mention superb Leslie simulation )
>is not much more today than the price ten years ago of the Dyncacord
>one effect Leslie sim.
>Look at the price of computers and their constant enhancement of
>features and speed.
>Alesis reports it's product to be a world-class Leslie sim. If it
>really is so good then a lot of older Hammond clones may be about to
>get a new lease of life.
>Regards, Thomas.
>

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