Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Korg's marketing is so lame. Routing an lfo to a filter's cutoff is now considered "mind bending modulation"? And what is this crap about needing a "wall full of modules" and "yards of cable" to get "this kind of synthesis power out of a standard analog synthesizer"? The Dave Smith Poly Evolver and Alesis Andromeda would beg to differ. I guess Korg wants to keep consumers in the dark about the benefits of analog synthesizers by associating "analog" with old fashioned and antiquated.
ReplyDeleteIts too bad this unit is built like a fisher price, flimsy and cheap! This is just a rehash of mmt made for the half a grand demographic...sound is good though, for what it is, also multitimbral, descent routing.Very cheesy marketing.
ReplyDeletei built a wall full of modules and own yards of cable and i want one of these. did Humble Array try using one of these?
ReplyDeletei spent about an hour with this thing at the music store today and it's the tiny VA i've wanted for a long time. i want something that i can use as a vocoder and secondary sequencer, and play some chords or bass on if i have to. the Micron fit the bill previously but since a) editing the sequencer blows and b) every one i've ever seen (either in a music store or in someone's rig) has had something broken or non-functional about it i have no interest in owning one.
yes it's cheap. at 500 USD that's okay. you can find them for 600, then they have a 100 USD rebate.
i think it's cool because it's a cheap flimsy little bit of the RADIUS that is way easier to use than a MicroKorg, and limited enough that 4 soft-knobs and a menu encoder.
also, the knobs are MUCH easier for me to look at than the ones on the NL3, which almost put me into a grand moff seizure with their blinky "original value is here" light. it's also way cooler than the "let's put a ring of meaningless light around the knob" which crippled the RADIUM UI.
i could tell this was a synth i could handle using in a dark room. and that's rather important actually.
"limited enough that 4 soft-knobs and a menu encoder."
ReplyDeleteshould have read
"limited enough that 4 soft-knobs and a menu encoder are a completely adequate interface."
i forgot to mention it was similar to the Waldorf way of matrix editing, but superior because the label that tells you what the knob does isn't part of a printed chinese takeaway menu but is a flexible backlit LCD. it's like Eventide designed a VA.
I've tried a Radias and was completely underwhelmed, especially by the build quality. The sound didn't do much for me either. Maybe it's the DACs that they used, but it had a very "tin can" feel too it.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, my original point was that modular synths haven't been the "standard" in analog synthesizers since the MiniMoog came out in the early 70's.
if the RADIASS is a tin can, i'm sure in your opinion the MS2K would be tin foil.
ReplyDeletei would like you to listen to this and legitimately say my sequencer lines are "thin:"
http://suitandtieguy.com/sounds/best_of_the_barn_jams/
@ suitandtieguy:
ReplyDeleteI find it odd that you so easily dismiss the Micron. I've had nothing but good experiences with mine. I got one used a while back for $250, and it's in perfect condition. Nothing "broken or non-functional about it". And it's built quite solidly. The 2-line lcd editing is a little confusing at first, but once you figure out the structure and the nifty key shortcuts, you can whiz through the parameters like nothing.
And the sequencer is about as hard to use as hitting record and playing the notes you want. You can quantize however you like and easily go back and move notes around as you please.
I don't know anything about the R3 except for this video, but it appears to be similar to the MicroKorg, which I also own. Compared to the Micron, the MicroKorg is a cheap piece of junk (build-wise) and has a silly way of editing patches that is not intuitive at all. And it cost me almost double what the Micron did. Granted, I got a great deal on the Micron, but still - it has a lot of 'bang for the buck'.
Korg has some decent products, but I'm not too blown away by their whole 'micro' line these days...