Quasimidi Technox

German indie company Quasimidi followed up the Quasar with the Technox in December of 1994 for £749 GBP, and again Technox was squarely aimed at the dance music market, so you can think of it as a cut down Quasar...

German indy company Quasimidi followed up the Quasar with the Technox in December of 1994 for £749 GBP, and again Technox was squarely aimed at the dance music market, so you can think of it as a cut down Quasar. Like the Quasar, the Technox also uses a form of analog modelling or VA (Virtual Analog), using what Quasimidi called M.A.S.S (Multi Algorithm Sound Synthesis) which was a combination of PCM samples, FM & additive synthesis. OK it's not a DSP generating models of waveforms but it's more than a sample synth & these Quasimidi units do sound very 'analog'

Again, like its bigger sister Quasar, The Technox can function in 'Sequencer' mode where it becomes a 16 part multi-timbrel synth, where only single layer individual sounds are assignable to channels with the exceptions of drums of course which reside on the usual channel 10. The other mode is 'Performance' which like Quasar allows up to 4 individual sounds to be layered while using both FX processors.

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Being essentially a cut-down version of Quasar, the Technox only has 21 note polyphony & it's 512 ROM sounds are housed in it's total six Mbytes of sample memory, but you still get 100 user editable Performance slots as well as 14 multitimbral setups & 14 ROM drum kits including the usual 909, 808, CR78 and more. Technox also features two multi-effect processors onboard, one dedicated to reverb & delay FX while the other does modulation FX including chorus, phasers, rotaries & panning, more delays, wah-wah, distortion and even a vocoder. Technox also hosts a quite reasonably comprehensive Arpeggiator too.

In summary, Technox was designed to cash in on the 90's dance craze offering users quick 'out of the box' typical club-sound fodder without too much fiddling but with a decent amount of realtime MIDI control via external controllers or from sequencer tracks. Only two outputs (mono Left or stereo L/R) but it can be used to create and play layered mono-timbrel Performance sounds only in stereo or if you use it for multi-timbrel playback the 2 send FX processors as well as various edit parameters for parts allow you to add fx, balance and pan to taste.