There is a fully featured Korg M1 w all the “expansion sound cards” on the IPad and a very nice touchscreen UI (very nice compared to the one slider on the OG or a mouse on computer) It’s auv3 as well
The Korg M1 VST is great. The Korg Collection was the firs bundle I bought, many, many years ago for $69! With a coupon. I have seen the Korg M1 on sale for $10 on plugin Boutique once….
The M1 is one part of the trifecta that changed music with the other 2 being the DX7 and the D-50 . The M1 mainly for 2 patches that started propelling dance / house music to stardom with its piano 16 and organ 2 patches ❤❤❤
I never liked the M1. Sure, it had a lot of capability but I felt it never had its own character, unlike the DX7, the D50 or indeed, a Jupiter or OB-8. It felt more like a tool, a very good one, to me than an instrument and signalled to me the end of the golden age of synths. I have the VSTi and have been using it since it came out as compared to modern, realistic and thick sounding instruments it has an 80s glassiness to it. A thinness that I actually find fits well in mix. But I still use emulations of the less capable synths like the Mercury 6, or the De-X’ed for feature sounds and the M1 for flavour or more background things like simple pads. I don’t currently have a direct emulation of the D-50 but I am enjoying a Casio CZ-101 thing I bought for next to nothing in a sale. For the record, my first synth was a Poly-800. Then I had an OB-8, a JX-8P, a DX7, a D-550, a bunch of Ensoniq stuff, an M1 and the only one I still have is a Kawai K1-11. With a few bits and pieces like an SH-101, DX drum machine, TB-303 etc etc. The reason I kept the K-1 is because it has a 61 note keyboard in the smallest size you could get in 1991 or so! I don’t regret selling anything. It enabled me to move on and frankly, given where I lived (hot and humid) most of the gear would be giving me all sorts of headaches by now. Ok, I wish I’d kept the DX7, the OB-8 and maybe the TB-303…Anne scratch that last one. Anyway, such is life.
Still HAVE MINE FROM THE 80’s in my LIVING-ROOM STUDIO (i just replaced the internal battery inside it) and I’m gonna buy this gadget that includes ALL THE SOUND CARDS EVER RELEASED FOR THE KORG M1
I was lucky to have an M1 back in the 90s and I made tons of music with it. Now I have the plugin with all the Korg expansion cards and it's totally worth it (I have the Korg collection and it's awesome). About the M1 popularity I think it was as popular as the DX7. I remember not only hearing it everywhere (especially the piano and organ in dance music) but seeing it anywhere on TV from live performance to ads. The M1 came to my life after the DX27 and it was a huge difference because of the PCM sounds, effects, sequencer and so many things that today might not be impressive, but in the early 90s it was revolutionary.
The M1 sound is based on proprietary sample data owned by Korg. Without a license to use that sample data, no one could emulate it. The other synthesizers, you mention, like the Juno, use their sounds using basic way forms that no one can copyright.
It's not just the M1 it's every sample based synth and yes it's a copyright law thing. I mean what's the problem with the official M1? You get the 1:1 codebase from Korg themselves. It's the closest you'll get to hardware no? The GUI is resizable though. "Utility" dropdown menu, "Screen Size" (Utility is top left corner). Will fill out a mac studio monitor no problem.
Nice review! Korg, was brilliant for this move. I bought their Legacy Collection, because it's the only way to keep those brilliant engines in rotation without breaking the bank or occupying an entire storage unit. If you haven't tried them... OMG! And, unlike greedy Roland, or myopic yamaha (Thank God for the Gospel Musicians site creating VSTs for them), they include ALL of the expansions. I really hope Korg produces an Ai² bundle of the 01/W-X-N-I series & possibly an M3, but I'd be satisfied with the Ai² bundle. An Ai² representation would be their most massive ROMpler yet. Don't get me started on how incredible their Wavestate, Modwave, and Opsix are!
buy an MPC (i suggest the key61), bring it with you and use the sample feature to create keygroups. youll have all the sounds you want, ready and on demand.
I liked the tune about 3/4 the way through. Add in a played electric bass through a chorus and some funk jazz chords played on position 2 or 4 on a strat and I could be in 1990!
UVI digital synsations volume 1 contains an M1 emulation. It's called the DS1 , probably to avoid legal issues The pack is usually available on eBay for about $15 because it is bundled with hardware. There is a D50, K1 and an Ensonique VFX in there too.
It really seems to be based on the M1 🤔 I was confused because UVI write something about AI synthesis for the DS1... Gotta compare some sounds. By the way I like the Ditigal Synsations Sounds quite a lot - the ROMpler-Stigma I mentioned in the video seems quite prominent in these responses 😅
@@xantuxI have nothing to compare it to as I have no memory of even playing an M1. I just like UVI workstation and I don't have full kontakt. See what you mean about the stigma lol.
For anyone dreaming of the Korg M1, let me give you the rundown: those sounds? They usually sound way better on the VST than they do straight out of the M1. If you want the hardware to come alive, you’ve got to roll up your sleeves for some sound sculpting and parameter tweaking. And let’s be real-doing that on the M1’s interface is like trying to code on a flip phone compared to the slick knobs-and-sliders setup you get on modern synths. Then there are the expansion cards. If you want all the sounds, you’ll need the cards, and those bad boys will run you $50 to $150 each. As for aftermarket cards with higher storage? Who knows. It’s not like the M1’s been getting regular firmware updates since 1988. Even with all that, I still love using my M1. There’s something cool about recording straight from the hardware into my DAW.. Sure, it’s extra effort, but there’s shameless pride in knowing the real deal made it into your music. I just wish it didn’t feel like I had to raid an antique store to get more sounds out of it.
The Korg M1 VST is close, but not a 1:1 reproduction of the original hardware. There is a distinct lack of warmth/grittiness. Most of the sonic character from the ROMpler synths from the 80s and 90s comes from the quality (or lack thereof) of the DACs. Roland does a better job of emulating its legacy synths in Roland Cloud VSTa because it is actually modeling the circuit behaviors of the original hardware. The Roland Cloud D-50 VST sounds much closer to the original D-50 than Korg's Legacy Collection M1 to its hardware counterpart.
It just needs some good compression. Run it through a 404s vinyl compressor with the noise off, or a cassette tape emulator and just watch the magic happen. If you're on an iOS klevgrand Cassette and the iM1... Deadly combo.
Weird clickbait title. It's technically not legal to sample and redistribute any rompler's patches, that's not exclusive to this keyboard, but it doesn't stop it from happening. You'll find M1 piano soundfonts easily if you Google for example.
You think it's too clickbaity? I think people who know about the legalities around PCM Samples will probably think it's so obious that it's not even that interesting - and the rest of the people might actually find the legalities interesting (as I did when I found out!) :)
The M3 is exactly the same as an M1ex, but with 1/4th the samples, and no layering of 2 sounds in one voice. It does have the Piano multisample from expansion card MPC-05 built in, but you can as well stick the card into an M1 and have the same sound. They also share the PCM expansion sets, although the M3 patch cards lack demo songs as it has no sequencer, and the voices are more flat as they don't allow for 2 samples. To put things short: An M1(R)(ex)/T1/T2/T3 can play EVERY M3 sound, but the M3 cannot play every M1/T sound.
This MI plug in also has resonance on the filters that was a limitation on the original MI, T series, O, X and N series of AI and AI2 synths. It's also got the entire sound library of the M and T series instruments. Great demo by the way. Keep up the great work!
Resonance in the plugin is a limitation too. It sounds scheisse. Like if you put the M1 sound through a Korg MS 20. If you want M1 resonance, you want that rough awkard digital resonance, like on the D50.
It is a bit like with videogames. You can't sell the ROMs, but you can archive them for historical purposes..... Oh, and it is not as PCM as you think. It is a combination of a partial sample, often a multisample, with a sample per keyboard section (the piano has 4), combined with a sustain part that is synthesized, for example based on a DWGS wavetable wave shape. So if you tweak the synthesized part, you kind of make a unique sound of it, and it is again legal to distribute.
As hardware the M1 is irrelevant today, because of its limited polyphony, lack of effect-busses (all sounds go through the same effects, so if your organ has a rotary-effect the bass and drums also go though that effect). With the plugin all those disadvantages have been solved and many more samples are added. So now you can finally enjoy the sounds of the M1 to their fullest potential, and not being limited to the ancient hardware.
I've a T2, with 4 midi out, and if I hook up my M1 and my other T2ex, I get exactly what you want. 48 voices polyphony, 4x2 effect pipelines and 3MB samples space for drums. OK, it is 60kg of steel, but only 40W electricity and 800€ to get the set, both cheaper and less energy use than a Juno 60.
I bought it on sale for $50 just to get their "dance piano". The real name is Piano'16. I think the plugin UI is terrible. I could not find a way to search for sounds. Filter and finding is a mess. Nexus does this sooo much better.
Nice one. Reminded me of the free K1v by Nils. It's an emulation of Kawai K1 from 1988. This M1 sounded more rich tho. But a very similar use case scenario. The VHS music was a good description. Just like some cheesy commercial tune with some futuristic looking logos and flying letters.
I guess cause you’re used to analogues but surprised you didn’t understand that digital synth waveforms can’t be legally copied. It’s not just the M1 it’s applied to D50, SY85 , whatever technically even the hats on a 909! etc it’s basically IP infringement same as copying a CD. (If it get enforced or not in another matter).. Yes The vst M1 is a bit clunky but it’s been around for years that why it’s extremely reasonably priced & no stupid subscription model - unlike Roland! Important point is Korg do make a VST of most of their classics- which is pretty awesome😁
In hindsight it makes a lot of sense indeed! I had to get to the bottom of what PCM synthesis even is to make sense of it and thought it could be interesting to retell here (especially for less experienced producers and synth enthusiasts)
The sound of the hardware M1 is now duplicated in pc software. Wow. What an age to live in. M1 samples are very well chosen by korg. So it does sound good. You have to go off into experiment territory with it to make it not sound like an M1.
'cheap vhs sound' is in the cheesiness of the 'instrumentalist'. M1 was a workstation, not a synth. collection of high quality samples that you couldnt change that much.
I have it...the whole korg pack vst.....the Triton pro x keyboard vs the Triton vst have the same sounds but the hardware keyboard sounds way better..only a new producer would disagree...it's not your fault...you get what you pay for...2000$ vs vst price...facts
That's interesting but legally illogical of Korg! What say I like to have my music REALLY minimal - just the raw sounds from a synth, played as long unprocessed drones. That'd be a pretty dull album to listen to, but also no different to the sampling CDs you used to see in the 1990s, and thus illegal?
Afaik it's all about the format or medium - or maybe you could even say about the intention. If you release something that is supposed to be consumed/ listened to like music you're always in tbe clear, even if samples could be extracted from it. In that case other people wouldn't be allowed to use those sounds anyways, because they would be sampling your song (thechnically)
"Rompler" isn't actually a "real word" though. It's a portmanteau of "ROM" and "Sampler". I'm sure you know that. It's a term that was coined to describe exactly what you're talking about, something that works just like a sampler keyboard, aside from the actual recording functionality. What other instruments today could be referred to as "romplers"? How about most of the big "synth workstations" on the market? The Korg M1 was one of the first proper synth workstations. And it is a synth in the sense that it has filters and envelopes to manipulate the samples with. The fact that the term "rompler" has gotten negative connotations has to do with the snobbery of some people who believe that making music requires you to do all your own sound design. It's like how many people today would swear that the only "proper" synthesizers are modular setups. My Yamaha MOXF6 is a rompler. It's still an amazing tool for music creation. And if I find a sound I quite like, but it's not exactly how I want it, there's enough power in the instrument to manipulate that sample-based instrument to sound the way I want it to. Also: The USynth Turbo-XT is currently more expensive than the Korg M1 VST.
As someone who has studies some linguistics, I would say a pormanteu is definitely a real word ;) but yes the origin kinda makes obvious that samplers and romplers are very close! About the Usynth Turbo XT - that's interesting... sale prices I'm used to are like $29-39 for Usynths and around $49 for Korg Plugins, but I think the M1 is on sale currently, and maybe Turbo XT isn't? Anyways it's a bit of a difficult comparison to sum up in the time I spent on it in the video - maybe some people immediately get imitated by the M1 UI or think some of the workflow drawbacks are immediate killer flaws, so for thoe the Turbo XT could be a better option, but definitely with it's own set of drawbacks :)
@@xantux Hence why I put real word in quotation marks. All words are as real as the use they get. I only noticed that Turbo-XT was €79 at the moment. I've wanted the M1 for a while, and have been waiting for a sale, so I've just bought and installed it. It's an absolute cornucopia of classic sounds.
@johnjammers4571 I tend to agree. The M1 comes from a time when people wanted synths to sound more like real instruments than distinct entities onto themselves. I agree that back in 1988, it turned heads (including mine). Today it just sounds plasticky and flat. I really struggle to understand why it was the best selling synth of all time. The D-50 on the other hand still sounds great almost 40 years later.
@@sergiodeoliveira5358 Yes, it is a '90s dance hit so to say. I have the Korg Collection. You use the word "plasticky" and to me a good description of the sound. Those '90s dance hits stand on those sounds. Mostly sequenced parts that works for that style of music. I've been grown up with human played music like Greg Phillinganes did in The Jacksons. That's also dance music, but from an other quality. My ears needed Herbie Hancock "Man Child" & Mr. Hands.
All the great synth artists will tell you one truth about sound! If it sounds good, use it! Playing the game of beinf to choosey and over critical is self defeating! If you know sound design and are skillful design your own sounds!
Oh no! I thought the guy tellin that other guy to shut up in spanish was so funny, but turns out it's you! Why do you dislike if I as a young-ish musician show interest and appreciation for a synth you seem to like a lot?
Wow. I finally understand why I got some (like 2) hate comments. It's just people that only watched the first 2 minutes and maybe don't understand that people aren't born knowing everything. I used the first two minutes to retell my learning process and the rest of the video is - as the title states - a Korg M1 review. And a pretty good one, as many commenters seem to agree ;) But you got me on the spelling 😅 I finally saw it. I looked at that PPT slide soo many times and never noticed. Might me a mild form of dyslexia
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There is a fully featured Korg M1 w all the “expansion sound cards” on the IPad and a very nice touchscreen UI (very nice compared to the one slider on the OG or a mouse on computer)
It’s auv3 as well
The Korg M1 VST is great. The Korg Collection was the firs bundle I bought, many, many years ago for $69! With a coupon. I have seen the Korg M1 on sale for $10 on plugin Boutique once….
The M1 is one part of the trifecta that changed music with the other 2 being the DX7 and the D-50 . The M1 mainly for 2 patches that started propelling dance / house music to stardom with its piano 16 and organ 2 patches ❤❤❤
I never liked the M1. Sure, it had a lot of capability but I felt it never had its own character, unlike the DX7, the D50 or indeed, a Jupiter or OB-8.
It felt more like a tool, a very good one, to me than an instrument and signalled to me the end of the golden age of synths.
I have the VSTi and have been using it since it came out as compared to modern, realistic and thick sounding instruments it has an 80s glassiness to it. A thinness that I actually find fits well in mix.
But I still use emulations of the less capable synths like the Mercury 6, or the De-X’ed for feature sounds and the M1 for flavour or more background things like simple pads.
I don’t currently have a direct emulation of the D-50 but I am enjoying a Casio CZ-101 thing I bought for next to nothing in a sale.
For the record, my first synth was a Poly-800. Then I had an OB-8, a JX-8P, a DX7, a D-550, a bunch of Ensoniq stuff, an M1 and the only one I still have is a Kawai K1-11.
With a few bits and pieces like an SH-101, DX drum machine, TB-303 etc etc.
The reason I kept the K-1 is because it has a 61 note keyboard in the smallest size you could get in 1991 or so!
I don’t regret selling anything. It enabled me to move on and frankly, given where I lived (hot and humid) most of the gear would be giving me all sorts of headaches by now. Ok, I wish I’d kept the DX7, the OB-8 and maybe the TB-303…Anne scratch that last one. Anyway, such is life.
Still HAVE MINE FROM THE 80’s in my LIVING-ROOM STUDIO (i just replaced the internal battery inside it) and I’m gonna buy this gadget that includes ALL THE SOUND CARDS EVER RELEASED FOR THE KORG M1
I was lucky to have an M1 back in the 90s and I made tons of music with it. Now I have the plugin with all the Korg expansion cards and it's totally worth it (I have the Korg collection and it's awesome). About the M1 popularity I think it was as popular as the DX7. I remember not only hearing it everywhere (especially the piano and organ in dance music) but seeing it anywhere on TV from live performance to ads. The M1 came to my life after the DX27 and it was a huge difference because of the PCM sounds, effects, sequencer and so many things that today might not be impressive, but in the early 90s it was revolutionary.
The M1 and the Triton were huge for Korg. I miss my Triton. ❤
I always wanted a Triton, but Korg did release Triton as a VST also and it’s REALLY GOOD.
I'd be in the market for a well-kept Korg Triton Extreme 88.
The M1 sound is based on proprietary sample data owned by Korg. Without a license to use that sample data, no one could emulate it. The other synthesizers, you mention, like the Juno, use their sounds using basic way forms that no one can copyright.
Peak youtube, stretching "the sample ROM is copyrighted" into a 20+ minute video. 😒
still one of the best synths, along with Trinity and 01/W
The M1 plugin is 49% off and the whole korg collection is 24% off rn until the 19th August
In a way the plug in is better then the original ... easier to édit, ALL cards included ...
So many iconic songs used the M1. I love the plugin and always come back to it
love the sounds of this rompler era
Fun fact Queen used this to make Show must go on
It's not just the M1 it's every sample based synth and yes it's a copyright law thing. I mean what's the problem with the official M1? You get the 1:1 codebase from Korg themselves. It's the closest you'll get to hardware no? The GUI is resizable though. "Utility" dropdown menu, "Screen Size" (Utility is top left corner). Will fill out a mac studio monitor no problem.
Nice review! Korg, was brilliant for this move. I bought their Legacy Collection, because it's the only way to keep those brilliant engines in rotation without breaking the bank or occupying an entire storage unit. If you haven't tried them... OMG! And, unlike greedy Roland, or myopic yamaha (Thank God for the Gospel Musicians site creating VSTs for them), they include ALL of the expansions. I really hope Korg produces an Ai² bundle of the 01/W-X-N-I series & possibly an M3, but I'd be satisfied with the Ai² bundle. An Ai² representation would be their most massive ROMpler yet. Don't get me started on how incredible their Wavestate, Modwave, and Opsix are!
buy an MPC (i suggest the key61), bring it with you and use the sample feature to create keygroups. youll have all the sounds you want, ready and on demand.
It sounds so extremely 80s! I love it!
The sounds bring back fond memories playing Monkey Island back in the day.
But I think Monkey Island is rather Roland MT-32 or Sound Canvas (not sure about the timeline)
@@mudi2000a MT-32, I know but some of the sounds of the M1 are pretty close to the Roland romplers/synths from the 80s and 90s.
@@arakaneuman yes I think the mallet sounds are kind of similar.
great sounds! - I've used the M1 all over my album
Share a Track and I'll add it to my community playlist! :) open.spotify.com/playlist/1JewX4H6dkkvz6bSfjUwRZ?si=e39a78d8b86d4c92
@@xantux Thanks! Still in the mixing stages right now, but will defo share once complete
I liked the tune about 3/4 the way through.
Add in a played electric bass through a chorus and some
funk jazz chords played on position 2 or 4 on a strat and I could be in 1990!
Oh heck yes, you went straight for the M1's E. Piano. The BEST sound in the entire board IMO, with Universe coming a very close second.
UVI digital synsations volume 1 contains an M1 emulation. It's called the DS1 , probably to avoid legal issues
The pack is usually available on eBay for about $15 because it is bundled with hardware.
There is a D50, K1 and an Ensonique VFX in there too.
UVI makes romplers , no emulations.. They suck.
Worst sampled M1 ever
It really seems to be based on the M1 🤔 I was confused because UVI write something about AI synthesis for the DS1... Gotta compare some sounds. By the way I like the Ditigal Synsations Sounds quite a lot - the ROMpler-Stigma I mentioned in the video seems quite prominent in these responses 😅
@@neuronmind yes I used the wrong term as it's not modelled
@@xantuxI have nothing to compare it to as I have no memory of even playing an M1. I just like UVI workstation and I don't have full kontakt. See what you mean about the stigma lol.
For anyone dreaming of the Korg M1, let me give you the rundown: those sounds? They usually sound way better on the VST than they do straight out of the M1. If you want the hardware to come alive, you’ve got to roll up your sleeves for some sound sculpting and parameter tweaking. And let’s be real-doing that on the M1’s interface is like trying to code on a flip phone compared to the slick knobs-and-sliders setup you get on modern synths.
Then there are the expansion cards. If you want all the sounds, you’ll need the cards, and those bad boys will run you $50 to $150 each. As for aftermarket cards with higher storage? Who knows. It’s not like the M1’s been getting regular firmware updates since 1988.
Even with all that, I still love using my M1. There’s something cool about recording straight from the hardware into my DAW.. Sure, it’s extra effort, but there’s shameless pride in knowing the real deal made it into your music. I just wish it didn’t feel like I had to raid an antique store to get more sounds out of it.
Got M1 cards? Hit me up. Somehow. Lets not make this weird... or do.
Like all Korg's own Legacy VSTs, the emulation is just so much more and better than the original hardware.
Love my Korg M1R ♥️
That saxophone: check out K-Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery
Or Ace of Bass - All That She Wants :)
The Korg M1 VST is close, but not a 1:1 reproduction of the original hardware. There is a distinct lack of warmth/grittiness. Most of the sonic character from the ROMpler synths from the 80s and 90s comes from the quality (or lack thereof) of the DACs. Roland does a better job of emulating its legacy synths in Roland Cloud VSTa because it is actually modeling the circuit behaviors of the original hardware. The Roland Cloud D-50 VST sounds much closer to the original D-50 than Korg's Legacy Collection M1 to its hardware counterpart.
What's the polyphony of the hardware please?
@@simontunnicliffe2107 16 notes; 8 if you create a dual tone sound.
Just put a TAL dac on the synth bus. Done.
It just needs some good compression. Run it through a 404s vinyl compressor with the noise off, or a cassette tape emulator and just watch the magic happen. If you're on an iOS klevgrand Cassette and the iM1... Deadly combo.
@@Skrenja you beat me to it 😅 TAL dac looks really cool.
Pay for stuff. People worked on it. I use the WaveState and the iM1 on the iPad. Sounds amazing!
I love the Korg collection, so many great sounds.
Weird clickbait title. It's technically not legal to sample and redistribute any rompler's patches, that's not exclusive to this keyboard, but it doesn't stop it from happening. You'll find M1 piano soundfonts easily if you Google for example.
You think it's too clickbaity? I think people who know about the legalities around PCM Samples will probably think it's so obious that it's not even that interesting - and the rest of the people might actually find the legalities interesting (as I did when I found out!) :)
@@xantux its the way you singled out this one instrument with a headline that infers it is a big deal that only applies to it, which makes it bait.
muy bien se escucha increible el korg m1 amigo buen trabajo sigue adelante creando mas música un saludo.
M1 has some great sounds. I prefer the upgraded M3 for piano and killer organs. Thx for sharing.
The M3 is exactly the same as an M1ex, but with 1/4th the samples, and no layering of 2 sounds in one voice. It does have the Piano multisample from expansion card MPC-05 built in, but you can as well stick the card into an M1 and have the same sound. They also share the PCM expansion sets, although the M3 patch cards lack demo songs as it has no sequencer, and the voices are more flat as they don't allow for 2 samples.
To put things short: An M1(R)(ex)/T1/T2/T3 can play EVERY M3 sound, but the M3 cannot play every M1/T sound.
This MI plug in also has resonance on the filters that was a limitation on the original MI, T series, O, X and N series of AI and AI2 synths. It's also got the entire sound library of the M and T series instruments. Great demo by the way. Keep up the great work!
Resonance in the plugin is a limitation too. It sounds scheisse. Like if you put the M1 sound through a Korg MS 20. If you want M1 resonance, you want that rough awkard digital resonance, like on the D50.
The entire thing is downloadable to your Nautilus now as a model for free from UK
I have Kotakt, Omnisphere and the Arturia V Collection. The M1 VST is still my first choice when looking for inspiration. It just sounds so damn good.
It is a bit like with videogames. You can't sell the ROMs, but you can archive them for historical purposes.....
Oh, and it is not as PCM as you think. It is a combination of a partial sample, often a multisample, with a sample per keyboard section (the piano has 4), combined with a sustain part that is synthesized, for example based on a DWGS wavetable wave shape. So if you tweak the synthesized part, you kind of make a unique sound of it, and it is again legal to distribute.
How to set general midi mapping for the drums?
As hardware the M1 is irrelevant today, because of its limited polyphony, lack of effect-busses (all sounds go through the same effects, so if your organ has a rotary-effect the bass and drums also go though that effect). With the plugin all those disadvantages have been solved and many more samples are added. So now you can finally enjoy the sounds of the M1 to their fullest potential, and not being limited to the ancient hardware.
you have no fucking idea
actually I have had mine new since 88. it's awesome would never sell it. it's especially good with the ex expansion I also got.
@@diegoperez2912 I am a synth expert and the M1 wasn't an option to buy. The later T-series and the Wavestation were a lot better.
I've a T2, with 4 midi out, and if I hook up my M1 and my other T2ex, I get exactly what you want. 48 voices polyphony, 4x2 effect pipelines and 3MB samples space for drums. OK, it is 60kg of steel, but only 40W electricity and 800€ to get the set, both cheaper and less energy use than a Juno 60.
now i want to make a Korg emulation
I still have 2 O1(The 16 part successor to the M1).....love them. but rarely use them these days.
amazing, thank you - I love this vintage sound...
Thanks , How can i midi map the drums kit?
I have the full set M1 with EX and expansion card on my MacBook Air M1
Korg M3R + editor is the way.
I bought it on sale for $50 just to get their "dance piano". The real name is Piano'16. I think the plugin UI is terrible. I could not find a way to search for sounds. Filter and finding is a mess. Nexus does this sooo much better.
Yep, that's a legit critizism
The only thing you can do is filter for keys
Nice one. Reminded me of the free K1v by Nils. It's an emulation of Kawai K1 from 1988. This M1 sounded more rich tho. But a very similar use case scenario. The VHS music was a good description. Just like some cheesy commercial tune with some futuristic looking logos and flying letters.
I agree, the K1v is definitely in a sinilar category. Thank you!
of course the M1 sounds richer, the K1 was a low budget keyboard and the M1 wasn't :)
Big W for Korg giving you the plugin.
you should peep XO by xln audio. its an incredible tool for both intuitively getting to the drum sound you want, and laying down a decent drumline.
That’s a dope sound. I need to get this.
I have the M1 for the 3Ds
I guess cause you’re used to analogues but surprised you didn’t understand that digital synth waveforms can’t be legally copied. It’s not just the M1 it’s applied to D50, SY85 , whatever technically even the hats on a 909! etc it’s basically IP infringement same as copying a CD. (If it get enforced or not in another matter).. Yes The vst M1 is a bit clunky but it’s been around for years that why it’s extremely reasonably priced & no stupid subscription model - unlike Roland! Important point is Korg do make a VST of most of their classics- which is pretty awesome😁
In hindsight it makes a lot of sense indeed! I had to get to the bottom of what PCM synthesis even is to make sense of it and thought it could be interesting to retell here (especially for less experienced producers and synth enthusiasts)
@@xantux yes, good point, if it helps educate everyone so thy won’t get caught buying dodgy software etc then it’s a good work👍
The sound of the hardware M1 is now duplicated in pc software. Wow. What an age to live in. M1 samples are very well chosen by korg. So it does sound good. You have to go off into experiment territory with it to make it not sound like an M1.
If you put an hold on the sequencer, you can take the right over this unfinish synth. ;)
I really can't figure out what you were trying to say here! 😅
@@xantux With an HOLD button you can play sequence without holding note like a busy performer. ;)
PS : Arturia are too stupid to put one.
ROMpler. It’s sample based and that’s the copyright.
'cheap vhs sound' is in the cheesiness of the 'instrumentalist'. M1 was a workstation, not a synth. collection of high quality samples that you couldnt change that much.
I have it...the whole korg pack vst.....the Triton pro x keyboard vs the Triton vst have the same sounds but the hardware keyboard sounds way better..only a new producer would disagree...it's not your fault...you get what you pay for...2000$ vs vst price...facts
That's the same bass from tom Cappello's i still believe, i think
That's interesting but legally illogical of Korg! What say I like to have my music REALLY minimal - just the raw sounds from a synth, played as long unprocessed drones. That'd be a pretty dull album to listen to, but also no different to the sampling CDs you used to see in the 1990s, and thus illegal?
Afaik it's all about the format or medium - or maybe you could even say about the intention. If you release something that is supposed to be consumed/ listened to like music you're always in tbe clear, even if samples could be extracted from it. In that case other people wouldn't be allowed to use those sounds anyways, because they would be sampling your song (thechnically)
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Just buy the cheap Nanokeys which includes free M1 Le
"Rompler" isn't actually a "real word" though. It's a portmanteau of "ROM" and "Sampler". I'm sure you know that. It's a term that was coined to describe exactly what you're talking about, something that works just like a sampler keyboard, aside from the actual recording functionality. What other instruments today could be referred to as "romplers"? How about most of the big "synth workstations" on the market? The Korg M1 was one of the first proper synth workstations. And it is a synth in the sense that it has filters and envelopes to manipulate the samples with.
The fact that the term "rompler" has gotten negative connotations has to do with the snobbery of some people who believe that making music requires you to do all your own sound design. It's like how many people today would swear that the only "proper" synthesizers are modular setups. My Yamaha MOXF6 is a rompler. It's still an amazing tool for music creation. And if I find a sound I quite like, but it's not exactly how I want it, there's enough power in the instrument to manipulate that sample-based instrument to sound the way I want it to.
Also: The USynth Turbo-XT is currently more expensive than the Korg M1 VST.
As someone who has studies some linguistics, I would say a pormanteu is definitely a real word ;) but yes the origin kinda makes obvious that samplers and romplers are very close!
About the Usynth Turbo XT - that's interesting... sale prices I'm used to are like $29-39 for Usynths and around $49 for Korg Plugins, but I think the M1 is on sale currently, and maybe Turbo XT isn't? Anyways it's a bit of a difficult comparison to sum up in the time I spent on it in the video - maybe some people immediately get imitated by the M1 UI or think some of the workflow drawbacks are immediate killer flaws, so for thoe the Turbo XT could be a better option, but definitely with it's own set of drawbacks :)
@@xantux Hence why I put real word in quotation marks. All words are as real as the use they get.
I only noticed that Turbo-XT was €79 at the moment. I've wanted the M1 for a while, and have been waiting for a sale, so I've just bought and installed it. It's an absolute cornucopia of classic sounds.
The UI is a disaster and it's emulation is not as close as folks think
You spelled Illegal wrong. 👀💀
I did :/
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The Korg M1 is the keyboard I hate the most.
Porque no tienes ni puta idea
@@diegoperez2912 Name one good track with a Korg M1. I start crying if you come with one of those '90s dance tracks
In 88 it was the best thing ever
@johnjammers4571 I tend to agree. The M1 comes from a time when people wanted synths to sound more like real instruments than distinct entities onto themselves. I agree that back in 1988, it turned heads (including mine). Today it just sounds plasticky and flat. I really struggle to understand why it was the best selling synth of all time. The D-50 on the other hand still sounds great almost 40 years later.
@@sergiodeoliveira5358 Yes, it is a '90s dance hit so to say. I have the Korg Collection. You use the word "plasticky" and to me a good description of the sound. Those '90s dance hits stand on those sounds. Mostly sequenced parts that works for that style of music. I've been grown up with human played music like Greg Phillinganes did in The Jacksons. That's also dance music, but from an other quality. My ears needed Herbie Hancock "Man Child" & Mr. Hands.
All the great synth artists will tell you one truth about sound! If it sounds good, use it! Playing the game of beinf to choosey and over critical is self defeating! If you know sound design and are skillful design your own sounds!
Pero éste que va saber,si no sabe ni dónde está de pie
@@diegoperez2912 Please! Bestow your wisdom upon me
Those of you who did not grow up during the M1 era are unnecessary here, including the one who made the video
Thanks for gatekeeping ✌️
Oh no! I thought the guy tellin that other guy to shut up in spanish was so funny, but turns out it's you! Why do you dislike if I as a young-ish musician show interest and appreciation for a synth you seem to like a lot?
1. The M1 is there from Korg. 2. It's Illegal. Check your writings. 3. Complete bullsh1t video.
Wow. I finally understand why I got some (like 2) hate comments. It's just people that only watched the first 2 minutes and maybe don't understand that people aren't born knowing everything. I used the first two minutes to retell my learning process and the rest of the video is - as the title states - a Korg M1 review. And a pretty good one, as many commenters seem to agree ;)
But you got me on the spelling 😅 I finally saw it. I looked at that PPT slide soo many times and never noticed. Might me a mild form of dyslexia