KVR Audio

damargeo · Post by **damargeo** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:32 pm

finally a video that shows it rather than endless drawn out pads and unusable sound scape

his playing could do with work though:

Hy-Fy · Post by **Hy-Fy** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:00 pm

Are these available for download.

Halma · Post by **Halma** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:21 pm

If you have a few bucks you could buy a Korg DSS-1 for cheap. I bought mine for 130 €. Then you can download the factory presets for free where the most important sounds from the M1 (Organ, Piano, Mandolin, Bass, Drums...) are contained. Actually those are DSS-1 (or perhaps DW8000) sounds that went later into the M1 ROM. Unfortunately my floppy is broken so I have to save some money for the SD card upgrade.

And you will get a dope sampler btw. 12bit galore and true analog 12db/24db lp filter.

But there should be a M1 VST somewhere if you are not interested in the real deal.

Cheers,
Sebstian

Hy-Fy · Post by **Hy-Fy** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:26 pm

im more of a digital producer. God producing isn't cheap but thanks anyway.

dj ray · Post by **dj ray** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:37 pm

$50 for the Korg Legacy M1. Every sound card ever made for the M1 and T1. I hear a lot of presets in the video above. Great stuff and takes me back to the 90s.

Hy-Fy · Post by **Hy-Fy** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:15 pm

Now the $50 I can do thanks m8

werp · Post by **werp** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:13 pm

$200 gets you the complete korg legacy collection.
M1, ms-20, wavestation, mono/poly, polysix and a wrapper that lets you use ms-20 and polysix simultaneously in various combinations.
All expansion cards are included. Worth it if you can stretch that far.

Hy-Fy · Post by **Hy-Fy** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:08 am

I don't have that. God I wish I was rich.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:25 am

Most of what those sounds are, well, the 90s ones anyway, are simple samples and some lowgrade echo/verb. Seriously, many similar samples have been floating around the web for ages. How hard is it to sample a B3 once per octave?

Many of the sounds are from 80s songs, however, and predate the M1, hence, you can do those with any analog synth.

You don't need an M1 or the software M1 to get those sounds.

Hy-Fy · Post by **Hy-Fy** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:21 am

Well then any idea how I would make the sounds from 00:44; 2:53; 4:45

damargeo · Post by **damargeo** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:11 pm

Hy-Fy wrote:Well then any idea how I would make the sounds from 00:44; 2:53; 4:45

0.44 - bog standard dance piano you can find on the nexus, but this one is doubled (so 2 of the same piano)

2.53 - saw waves on the M1, download the midi to "urban cookie collect - the key the secret" its a 90s dance song that this riff is copying, 2 saw waves with a little release on the envelope & reverb

4.45 - hammond organ with full Leslie (gives it that wobbley chorus like effect) just go through all your synth presets for organs and manually add more chorus and a little delay

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:33 pm

werp wrote:$200 gets you the complete korg legacy collection.
M1, ms-20, wavestation, mono/poly, polysix and a wrapper that lets you use ms-20 and polysix simultaneously in various combinations.
All expansion cards are included. Worth it if you can stretch that far.

if i rmemeber rightly the cheapest path to this is:

-buy a korg nanokey, which comes with m1 LE
-having m1LE allows you to upgrade to the full korg suite for $99

so depending on how much the nanokey costs, around $130-140?
if thats still too much, sell the nanokey on ebay to recoup some of the costs

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:36 pm

damargeo wrote:
Hy-Fy wrote:Well then any idea how I would make the sounds from 00:44; 2:53; 4:45
0.44 - bog standard dance piano you can find on the nexus, but this one is doubled (so 2 of the same piano)

2.53 - saw waves on the M1, download the midi to "urban cookie collect - the key the secret" its a 90s dance song that this riff is copying, 2 saw waves with a little release on the envelope & reverb

4.45 - hammond organ with full Leslie (gives it that wobbley chorus like effect) just go through all your synth presets for organs and manually add more chorus and a little delay

Yep, there's not much in the M1 that can't be replicated easily with newer instruments.

damargeo · Post by **damargeo** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:56 pm

ghettosynth wrote:
damargeo wrote:
Hy-Fy wrote:Well then any idea how I would make the sounds from 00:44; 2:53; 4:45
0.44 - bog standard dance piano you can find on the nexus, but this one is doubled (so 2 of the same piano)

2.53 - saw waves on the M1, download the midi to "urban cookie collect - the key the secret" its a 90s dance song that this riff is copying, 2 saw waves with a little release on the envelope & reverb

4.45 - hammond organ with full Leslie (gives it that wobbley chorus like effect) just go through all your synth presets for organs and manually add more chorus and a little delay
Yep, there's not much in the M1 that can't be replicated easily with newer instruments.

but will not sound exactly the same

Nokenoku · Post by **Nokenoku** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:55 pm

+1

The M1 and especially the Wavestation have a really nice and unique retro feel to them.
I personally like some of the sounds a lot more than the modern stuff ... they are just more interesting and offer more atmosphere. They are alive and deep.

It's somehow strange (and sad), that those old instruments with cheap and really not optimal digital signal flow do have more character than a lot of modern VA synths.

Here are some audio-demos I made some years ago of some random Wavestation patches:
Mixed
Mixed2
Retro
FX
Pad
Pad2

Korg M1 and the 90s dance sounds