Korg M1 Piano - Samples

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Introduced back in 1988, the Korg M1 is probably most famous for the "M1 Piano" sound (and the Universe Pad) I have managed to sample this, and its all yours, free. If you want that classic "house piano" sound then this is the sample set for you ;)

(this prob wont appeal to piano purists, as its not a realist piano by a long shot)

Sampled From C0 thru F#7, at 24/96 Mono, and edited by hand (not looped, natural decay, no FX)

You can download the RAR containig all the wavs HERE (20meg)

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Badass, krim!

I'm linking all the "rave piano" threads to this for now on.

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Dave,

I keep getting the following error mesaages when trying to extract these files...

! C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\M1_Piano2496_Mono.rar: Unexpected end of archive
! C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\M1_Piano2496_Mono.rar: CRC failed in M1_Piano2496_Mono\M1_Piano_F#6.wav. The file is corrupt
! C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\M1_Piano2496_Mono.rar: Unexpected end of archive

Any ideas ?
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I'll check it out, gimma a minute.

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Upon investigation, it seems the F#6 sample is all that is corrupt. I've downloaded the .rar twice and got the error on both.
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20 meg for the m1 piano? That's about 10 times larger than entire m1 rom set!

I suppose I'd rather take the memory hit than spend any time editing it down further - or just use my trusty Korg N364.

Good work for posting it though, it's just funny how an 8meg S1000 used to be something to aspire to...
Last edited by adydub on Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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OK, just downloaded, and it does seem f**ked for some reason, so im uploading again, sorry about that(my connection has been a bit wierd tonight) In the mean time, here are 3 cheesy examples of what it sounds like, with a bit of old skool reverb only.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kriminal.uk/piano1.mp3
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kriminal.uk/piano2.mp3
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kriminal.uk/piano3.mp3
Last edited by Kriminal on Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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adydub wrote:20 meg for the m1 piano? That's about 10 times larger than entire m1 rom set!
its 30 meg unzipped :wink:


You can also get the Orion version for the sampler here:

http://www.synapse-audio.com/forum/view ... hp?id=2770

as an .osp file, its only 6meg.

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As terrible as it sounds, I've really been wanting this for quite some time, thanks Krim :)

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very cool, thanks a lot!

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Its uploaded again, i just downloaded, tested and its fine here ;)

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Kriminal wrote:Its uploaded again, i just downloaded, tested and its fine here ;)
Yup, that sorted it.

Cheers bud :)
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Nice one, Krim.

As far as comparisons to the original ROM size go, of course KORG used looped samples, probably very short ones even, probably using some proprietary compression algorhythm as well.
But you can't just sample those as it won't take the playback engine of the M1 into account - whether that is a good or bad thing is beyond the point.

Maybe I'll try to do some shorter looped version one day. Don't expect it during the next 4 weeks though as I won't be able to upload anything anywhere (touring around...).
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.

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call me silly, but didnt the m1 use wavetables? either way it's tight.

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The Chase wrote:call me silly
Silly :hihi: Hey, you asked :)
The Chase wrote:but didnt the m1 use wavetables? either way it's tight.
From Vintage Synth Explorer....
Vintage Synth Explorer wrote:The M1 features built-in AI Synthesis for full digital generation and processing using 4MB of PCM sampled and synthesized waveforms which can be shaped using analog-style editing.
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