KORG Collection 4

[aMUSEd]

No N5/364, no buy again.

Z1 and Radias are nice, but their Legacy are the 90s-Romplers. And no, Triton CAN'T replace it.

Not sure what you mean, Z1 is not a rompler

[Watchful]

Give us an enhanced DSS-1/DW8000 emulation, dammit! RADIAS would be nice too.

Full Bucket Music also has FB-9999, a sonically perfect DW-8000 and DW-6000 emulation.

[Tobi MM]

No N5/364, no buy again.

Z1 and Radias are nice, but their Legacy are the 90s-Romplers. And no, Triton CAN'T replace it.

Not sure what you mean, Z1 is not a rompler

That's what i said. Korgs Legacy are their 90-Romplers; X5, N5, N364. Stuff bands carry around stages til now.

Collection lacks them, so, personally, before Z1 (cool though), i want N364.

[EvilDragon]

Give us an enhanced DSS-1/DW8000 emulation, dammit! RADIAS would be nice too.

Full Bucket Music also has FB-9999, a sonically perfect DW-8000 and DW-6000 emulation.

It's not a perfect emulation of either of the two machines tho.

[EvilDragon]

Collection lacks them, so, personally, before Z1 (cool though), i want N364.

N364 doesn't really offer that much vs M1, a couple of features and different ROM, that's all. In fact M1 is even better since they added an actual resonant filter to it, and improved polyphony and added two insert FX per combi part, stuff N364 can only dream about... To be frank, the whole AI2 range of synths could simply be added to M1 as additional "ROM cards", just like what they did with T1. The only straggler would be 01/W, which works at a different sample rate and has a waveshaper (which, why not, could also be added to M1).

Z1 is a lot more exciting than N364, even with Prophecy already being in the collection (there are some structural differences between the two, giving enough merit for both to exist).

[Watchful]

Full Bucket Music also has FB-9999, a sonically perfect DW-8000 and DW-6000 emulation.

It's not a perfect emulation of either of the two machines tho.

Is the Korg Collection? The M1 has reworked filters. The Mono/Poly and Polysix are not exact, either, in functionality. But all are extremely close.

[AdvancedFollower]

Personally I'm hoping for a Poly-800 and Radias in the next release.

Not trolling you here, but why the Poly800? My only memory of that was back in the 90s when I used a mk2 I think and all I remember what how weak I felt it sounded. But I was an unpolished snotty brat back then who knew nothing about anything

It's a quirky and fun synth used in a lot of low-budget synthpop, italo disco etc. back in the day. I mean we already have every "dream synth" imaginable so I tend to find those simpler, quirkier emulations more fun. Besides, it makes sense to have in a Korg Legacy Collection since it's very much part of Korg's legacy even if it might not have been their proudest moment.

[T-CM11]

It's a quirky and fun synth used in a lot of low-budget synthpop, italo disco etc. back in the day. I mean we already have every "dream synth" imaginable so I tend to find those simpler, quirkier emulations more fun. Besides, it makes sense to have in a Korg Legacy Collection since it's very much part of Korg's legacy even if it might not have been their proudest moment.

I would like an emulation of the Poly-800... IF I owned one in the past. But since I haven't... nah!

[EvilDragon]

Is the Korg Collection? The M1 has reworked filters. The Mono/Poly and Polysix are not exact, either, in functionality. But all are extremely close.

M1 filters are not reworked, they have an additional mode. If you disable the resonance you get the same filter as on the actual M1.

[Weasel-Boy]

BTW, the M1 and Wavestation got bumped to v2.4.1 (M1) and v2.4.2 (WS) by KORG a few days ago.

[DrGonzo]

It's a quirky and fun synth used in a lot of low-budget synthpop, italo disco etc. back in the day. I mean we already have every "dream synth" imaginable so I tend to find those simpler, quirkier emulations more fun. Besides, it makes sense to have in a Korg Legacy Collection since it's very much part of Korg's legacy even if it might not have been their proudest moment.

Korg is a bit like Nintendo, they follow the main stream but does so in their own way which is something I absolutely adore. Their old digital/analog hybrids all have very interesting tones. One of the things of that era I always wanted was their DSS sampler. So yeah, I can understand the value of a Poly 800. Instant cheese

/Carl

[DrGonzo]

Is the Korg Collection? The M1 has reworked filters. The Mono/Poly and Polysix are not exact, either, in functionality. But all are extremely close.

M1 filters are not reworked, they have an additional mode. If you disable the resonance you get the same filter as on the actual M1.

It would be so awesome if Korg made it possible to load own waveforms into their expansion cards.

[BBFG#]

BTW, the M1 and Wavestation got bumped to v2.4.1 (M1) and v2.4.2 (WS) by KORG a few days ago.

Likewise with MS20, PolySix and Mono/Poly. Thanks for the heads up!

[dumbledog]

Note that they're sonically identical to 2.4.0 -- they just fix a bug with Unicode in path names.

[Septic Underground]

Full Bucket Music has a very authentic Poly 800.... for donation or free depending on your circumstances. Björn has done a great job filling in the gaps Korg has left.

This Fury800 and the DW6000/8000 (FB7999) are really good.
I was always skipping them because, quite frankly, the other synths on the site are very mediocre (to me) but these two are great. Made some cool patches with them, enable chord mem and instant detroit