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No name · Post by **No name** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:08 am

I'm puzzled over something regarding the korg triton. Is it a synth? Not in terms of just being able to changed the ADSR on a piano for instance. I'm talking osc's, filter, amp, etc. Is it also a synthesizer? Or just a sample based keyboard?

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:56 am

It is indeed a fuuly fledged synth, its just that it uses a sample-ROM as the basis of its oscillators. Then there is the physically modelled Z-1 board that you can add into it for true V/A.

KrunietZ · Post by **KrunietZ** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:10 am

i recon some people call it a "workstation" because of it's inbox sequencer, sampler, synth etc etc or am i screwed?

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:02 pm

I say its a glorified rompler.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:29 pm

KrunietZ wrote:i recon some people call it a "workstation" because of it's inbox sequencer, sampler, synth etc etc or am i screwed?

Yep. Workstations try to have it all.

I miss the Trinity.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:32 pm

Its a workstation because its multi-timbral and has a sequencer, mixer and insert/send effects. It can also be a sampler and a physically modelled synth so its kind of like having a super high-quality host with its own instruments and effects running on a 2GHz or so CPU, in terms of how much you can do at once.

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:57 pm

What do you ppl. make of the sound of the Triton ?

Sidhu

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:43 pm

I'm a big fan of the MOSS board, the original Z1 was awesome. Turn on any RnB or hip hop station & you'll hear a Triton.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:34 pm

Uncle E wrote:I'm a big fan of the MOSS board, the original Z1 was awesome. Turn on any RnB or hip hop station & you'll hear a Triton.

Is that why hip hop and R&B suck now?

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:46 pm

sidhu wrote:What do you ppl. make of the sound of the Triton ?

Sidhu

I can't stand the Triton's sound... and for that matter, I can't stand Yamaha or Roland's sound anymore either. Korg sounds really ah... plastic, I suppose you could say and sounds really thin up in the higher octaves of the keyboard. Korg downgraded with the Triton, I think.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:17 am

I think the Triton has much better sounds than my Trinity did. Very usable and not slanted towards scoring for American tele-movies. The quality is first-rate, the effects are amazing and everything is incredibly flexible. The only sequencer I have come across that I prefer to the Trinity's is ORION.

aldred · Post by **aldred** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:00 am

Yup. I love my Trinity too. Clean and powerful. And the MOSS synthesizer can spit out some thick sounds. I've been eyeing the Triton Extreme up and down for months.

purusha · Post by **purusha** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:47 am

I have Triton extreme and a Z1. Love 'em both!

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:51 am

I'm getting way to old to be lugging around that kind fo weight when a laptop gives me more power on stage. I really loved my Trinity but I don't miss it one bit.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:02 am

Maybe it's the way I've heard people use the Triton, but to me it doesn't sound nearly as natural as the Trinity did. The Trinity had a very natural feel to its instruments (and especially its strings

), even if some of the sounds were out of tune.

Korg's new Oasys board looks promising. From the videos and demos, it sounds pretty good too. It'd be a good idea to check that one out... when it comes out, that is.