KVR Audio

rollasoc · Post by **rollasoc** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:27 am

Given it was $49 to upgrade Legacy to Special Bundle on the Arp Odyssey release, $149 to upgrade to Special Bundle V2, seems a bit steep.

Unless they haven't sent any further discount codes yet?

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:47 am

It’s defiantly not a complete no brainier, you can get some really modern high quality VSTs for 150 bucks or less (Rapid, Icarus 2, Pigments for half that) but I guess if you want the Triton and just about every expansion card then it may be worth it...

My concern is that I would buy it for nostalgia, play with it for an hour and then never use it again as I have so many other synths...if it was 49 bucks I would not have thought twice...maybe it will go on sale in future.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:09 am

Roland, watch how things are supposed to be done!

mladi · Post by **mladi** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:13 am

SLiC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:47 am It’s defiantly not a complete no brainier, you can get some really modern high quality VSTs for 150 bucks or less (Rapid, Icarus 2, Pigments for half that) but I guess if you want the Triton and just about every expansion card then it may be worth it...

My concern is that I would buy it for nostalgia, play with it for an hour and then never use it again as I have so many other synths...if it was 49 bucks I would not have thought twice...maybe it will go on sale in future.

Very true. One good thing at least is that the $149 upgrade price isn't time-limited. Maybe we'll see a sale next year, maybe not. Beside that i really like how they handle it (now only a GUI update for the whole collection) and like most other users i dislike the Roland Cloud thing really.

Sahul · Post by **Sahul** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:27 am

Do you know if the GUI is resizable? VST 3? I can't find any info about this.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:32 am

mladi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:13 am

Very true. One good thing at least is that the $149 upgrade price isn't time-limited. Maybe we'll see a sale next year, maybe not. Beside that i really like how they handle it (now only a GUI update for the whole collection) and like most other users i dislike the Roland Cloud thing really.

Have they updated the GUIs for the older products in the collection?

XorXisT · Post by **XorXisT** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:35 am

EvilDragon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:09 am Roland, watch how things are supposed to be done!

Eat that, Roland!

raymondwave · Post by **raymondwave** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:38 am

Wow and hmm at the same time. I was a korg user in the 90/00, still own triton rack (altho it’s shelved now). Trinity and Triton were an integral part of my sound then, made my first tracks with Trinity only.

But now i’m on Roland Cloud train and $149 upgrade is quite a lot. I’ve used earlier legacy collection a lot too tho.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:47 am

Demo

https://www.korguser.net/collection/ins ... s_win.zip/

Updates for the rest of the collection as well (for me at least)

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:56 am

GUI Resizable

20 minute full use demo per session with no save.

PAK · Post by **PAK** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:59 am

A few functionality things. IMO.. they should expose the Arp button on the main panel.
EDIT - Korg already thought of this and there's a small ARP button on the left of the display at the top!

For the same reason make sure you try the SW1 and SW2 buttons above the joystick. They are incorporated into a lot of sounds. Unfortunately it's a bigger deal here as Korg hasn't enabled GUI automation of the joystick controls/ribbon. You can right click the SW buttons to set the assignment, and the CC's they use are set under the global settings.

BUT.. Try latching the position of the ribbon with the SW1 or SW2 using the GUI..

Right now the ribbon behaves in a momentary fashion, with the SW buttons acting like a lock on the position (which must be sent over MIDI CC to lock). IMO You should be able to enable an SW button on the GUI, pick a position on the ribbon with the GUI, and have it set the ribbon to latch to the position you click if the SW button is enabled and assigned to do that.

BTW Max polyphony is 256 notes, compared to 62 on the original

tristan- · Post by **tristan-** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:02 pm

I wonder whenever Yamaha will jump on the wagon of issuing the old ROMpler part of the EX series and the Motif Classic/ES (many XS/XF sounds are still being used in the Montage so I'm not expecting those, but still). Halion Sonic doesn't contain Motif sounds.

basically I sold my Korg Kronos when I bought the Yamaha Montage, ended up selling it as well. Although its very nice, I feel more than happy with all the Kontakt libs I have. but still, it would be nice to have actual reproductions of some of these old Yamaha sounds.

PAK · Post by **PAK** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:05 pm

Cochrane wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:20 am Hi,
is there a link to pdf manual? I cannot find any..

https://www.korguser.net/collection/man ... _OM_E1.pdf

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:06 pm

Its great they included all the expansions in the demo as well!

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:54 pm

EvilDragon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:09 am Roland, watch how things are supposed to be done!

Huge +1
rsp

Korg releases Korg Triton VST