KVR Audio

danv303 · Post by **danv303** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:41 pm

The M1's always had a cheesy sound to me. It's amazing what they squeezed into 4MB and ancient hardware. But workstations have moved on.

djanthonyw · Post by **djanthonyw** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:41 pm

Lotuzia wrote:The M1 piano sound has been used in a bunch of early house tracks iirc. Cant remeber the name of a particular one though

The piano, brass and strings from Prydz' Pjanoo are from the M1 software version as well.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:59 pm

danv303 wrote:The M1's always had a cheesy sound to me. It's amazing what they squeezed into 4MB and ancient hardware. But workstations have moved on.

One man's cheesy is another man's sweet nostalgia...........Analogs have moved on as well.............The M1 has become one of my favorite softsynths.......

danv303 · Post by **danv303** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:10 am

Analog synths haven't changed much, the chips got smaller but the components are pretty much the same. Yeah, I couldn't get a Monotron to fit in my pocket back in the 70's but the filter design hasn't changed at all.

OTOH digital synths have been following Moore's law for 20 years, they're in a completely different class of capability now.

But they can't be beat for nostalgia value! I would never use the sounds but they're fun to listen to

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:51 am

Viv Savage wrote:
Chuck E. Jesus wrote:anyone know how many PCs you can install these on? i've got the old KLC (upgraded for Win 7 awhile back for 15 dollars), playing with Mono/Poly demo atm...these would be great to have on the new laptop as well...
I have them on my iMac and on my MacBook Pro, so two would be doable. I don't think that you are in violation of the license agreement as many people work with two computers.

I'm thinking this is not irrelevant to the question.

Just checked the license agreement, which you can dl on the left side of this page. Under "User Support"
Software Licensing Agreement
http://www.korguser.net/login.asp?OS=WIN&LAN=1&TOP =1

The first part says only one computer.

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:38 pm

Teksonik wrote:
danv303 wrote:The M1's always had a cheesy sound to me. It's amazing what they squeezed into 4MB and ancient hardware. But workstations have moved on.
One man's cheesy is another man's sweet nostalgia...........Analogs have moved on as well.............The M1 has become one of my favorite softsynths.......

Same here. I've found a place for the M1 in a lot of my filmic music, as well as the odd new-agey piece.

Might get the WaveStation next.. urgh.. too many synths! Must be a GAS attack.

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