Korgscrew
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Posted: Dec. 26 1999, 22:26 |
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> Roland's synths sound well better
Hmm...not sure about that. I think it depends what music you're doing, etc...
There are some decidedly korg like sounds on TB3 in places - I don't know if these are the M1 or his TR rack (Korg have a habit of putting M1 sounds into everything...).
I've managed to get some fairly close approximations to some of his sounds out of my Korg X5D...maybe sometime I'll get round to doing a sounbank (I bet Olivier wouldn't mind a copy of that...).
On the CMI thing, those things can really sound destinctive...they're also huge, so I doubt I'd ever get one even if I had the money. Mike obviously loves (and has space for) his, or used to love it at least. Hear how it turns up all over his early - mid 80s albums (compare the sound of Five Miles Out with QE2...). Peter Gabriel did the same when he got his, using it on just about every song of at least one album (don't remember which right now).
BTW, the WSA1 managed polyphony by cheating slightly using samples as the 'driver' portion of the sound, rather than generating it in DSP like other modelling synths (Z1 included). Not a criticizm, though...I think thats a clever workaround in fact.
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