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And, in a weird twist of fate, it's a recreation of the Korg MS20, a reincarnation of the Korg Polysix, and a reinvention of the Wavestation. It's to do with the desirability and usability of the product.
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It's not a matter of pricing software synths have never been particularly expensive. But, as yet, there has been no software synth that has made me want to jump up and down and shout "gimme! gimme! gimme!" as did the first MS20s, Polysixes, M1s and Wavestations, all those years ago.īut today there's a product that threatens to signal the maturity of the software synth, both in terms of sexiness and capability. Since the late '90s, everything has become smaller, lighter, faster, cheaper, and more powerful, and advances in computer technology have started to reap a tangible benefit, because the fledgling technology of software synthesizers has been improving rapidly of late.
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With its greatly improved vector synthesis and wave sequencing, this gave everyone access to the expensive, 'produced' sounds that were once the preserve of million-dollar studios.
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The company repeated the trick two years later when it released the Wavestation. The result was the M1, the instrument that signalled the maturity of the digital synth, and established the form of the modern keyboard workstation. In 1988, Korg did it again, employing Yamaha's VLSI and surfacemount techniques to combine sample+synthesis technology with digital multi-effects units and 16-track MIDI sequencing. It showed that polyphonic synthesis had matured, and placed it for the first time in the grasping hands of impoverished musicians, myself among them. Sure, there was nothing particularly radical in this, but it was a 'real' polysynth as opposed to a paraphonic string synthesizer on steroids, and it sounded superb. Its beguiling patchbay and external signal processor may have promised far more than they delivered, but the instrument nonetheless signalled a new maturity and accessibility for modular synthesis, placing it in the grasping hands of impoverished students, myself among them.Īnother prime example appeared three years later when Korg launched the 'Poor Man's Prophet 5', the Polysix. Take the Korg MS20, which first appeared in 1978. Numerous examples exist if you look for them. Occasionally, an expensive and unattainable technology will mature to the point that something previously esoteric, distant and impenetrable becomes warm, cuddly, and practical. This month, we focus on the Wavestation plug-in. Again, convenience will win over the masses just like the mp3 won over CDs.Now that Korg's Legacy Collection is properly complete, we follow up last month's preview with the first instalment of our three-part in-depth review. Everyone else will enventually have a 88key midi controller and vsti's. In the near future the only keyboards left will be the Rhodes and Hammond. It's only the end of it's beginning stage. The 'Virtual Invasion' is nowhere near over. It is totally on another plateau! A sonic/synthesizer masterpiece. Has anyone heard the new Vengeance Avenger vsti? It literally blows away from top to bottom the current crop of new hw synths from the likes of Yamaha's, Korg and Roland. The way I see it is that these companies will be forced eventually to compete with each other in the virtual technology world as their hw units are quickly becoming just a little too over-priced for them to make the kinda profits that they were making prior to the VSTI explosion (hence the jacked up prices). It would be great if these companies made more vsti's of their other synths and hw (soon they all will).
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Roland has also followed suit (late as ever). It is quite brave of them to offer these virtual clones of their classic hw synths. Korg Legacy still holds up big-time! I admire Korg's move into the VST world.