MATRIXSYNTH: KORG PSS-50 Super Section SN 006658


Sunday, January 22, 2023

KORG PSS-50 Super Section SN 006658

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"The Korg PSS-50 Super Section basically is a drum machine groovebox with 40 preset patterns and 8 interchangeable fills/ endings, making 16 of "your very own" variations storable. Variations are composed of drum sounds, bass and accompaniment, each volume level being separately controllable. The membrane keys, offering 12 different types of chords, can be used to transpose variations to different pitches.

One of the best features of this machine is the backing chords, which kind of sounds like an Omnichord, or a nice Casio chord, but with a lot more control, and variation because each chord can be played 12 ways (MAJ, MIN, 7th, DIM, AUG, etc..)! It has a very nice, warm analog feel to it. It has a bunch of different rhythms and styles ranging from Rock, Reggae, Latin, and Heavy Metal.

The bass drum, snare, rimshot, open/closed hihat, hi/lo tom and handclaps sound like early PCM samples, just with their own, peculiar charm. The warm, analog-like bass and chords synth sounds could originate from a simplified subtractive synthesis similar to the Korg Poly 800!

FEATURES:

• TONE GENERATORS: RHYTHM x 8 (bass drun, snare drum, high-hat open, high-hat close, tom high, tom low, handclaps)

• ACCOMPANIMENT (piano, electric piano. honky-tonk piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, jazz guitar, banjo, brass, synthesizer, organ, strings)

• RHYTHM PATTERN: 48 pattems (8 beat I-II, 16 beat I II, new wave, electro pop, disco I-II, rock'n roll, boogie. ballad I-II. hard rock I-II-III, heavy metal, jazz waltz, 4 beat I-II. big band, fusion I-II-III-IV, bossanova. samba, cha-cha, mambo, merengue, latin rock, reggae I-II, 2 beat. 3 beat, march, folk, country, bluegrass, shuffle 1-11, break & ending x 8)

• ARRANGEABLE AREA: 16 Patterns

• CHORD: Maj, m, m6. ,m7 ,m9, 6, 7. Maj , 9, dim, Aug, sus4 on, each root (C — B)

• PROGRAMMABLE BANK: Song bank x 8 (maximum 80 bars/bank). Song chain

• INDICATOR: Chord name display, Song/pattern display, conductor display, Chain step/bar number, Song number Pattern number

• MIXER: Rhythm volume. Bass volume, Accompaniment volume, Exrernal input volume, Stereo volume"

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