03 The Korg Lambda: Ensemble Presets
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Ensemble section of the Korg Lambda.
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/ automaticgainsay
i bought mine for exactly 80$ from an older couple in like 1991 lol. i still have it and will NEVER let it go! this synth makes me cry it is so freakin beautiful sounding ✊🥺👍 the korg cx-3 sits on top of it perfectly and is also amazing to fill in the 'organ' sound. i picked that one up for free from a church that was replacing it with a digital organ in like 2008. for the relative price, size, and WEIGHT of the equivalent classics these two synths were sort of emulating, this combo still can't be beaten today imo. i just scanned and see neither of each are available for under $1,000 now, but they are still almost worth their weight in gold hehe. worth saving for or selling other kit for. excellent lambda vids these are the best! thanks for making me appreciate the lambda even deeper. i never realized that about the individual amps/envelopes,.,,and still lusted over a couple of the classic string synths from the same era. now i think they are all trash bwahahahaha (and duh, it said all that in the manual....i just didn't appreciate what it actually meant back in the day and never thought about it since :)
Thanks for this video. How do you think the Lambda compares to the Korg EPS-1? I don’t think you can detune the EPS-1, but I love the 76 key keyboard. One was for sale locally a few months ago, and I thought the strings sounded wonderful. Unfortunately, a lot of the keys weren’t working and the clav was very faint. I had no idea how much it would cost to repair so I passed on it.
Do you know if there is anyway to sustain the brass? Is there a sustain pedal option? Such a bummer that the attack and release for the rest of the ensemble cannot be applied to brass
Wow! That sound absolutely blew me away. Majestic! (And that was just through the iPhone speaker).
Alan Currall Fantastic, Alan!
For those who think the Solina is the best string synthesizer they're definitely doesn't know the Korg Lambda.
Let me put it this way, THE KORG LAMBDA IS WAAAAY BETTER THAN THE SOLINA, PERIOD!
AMEN!
Wow, this was the first synth I bought waaaay back when. Stacked on top of my Rhodes 73.
my right ear loved the sound of this thing
King Nopq That just means that you didn't listen after 6.20.
17:55 I just melted.
That sound is so beautiful I wanna throw a fuzz box on it
I have used old Ibanez "wuh wah" or something like that with my Lambda. Also I tested 31-band equalizer. It widends a lot of the sounds..also I have old string reverb that really works well with Lambda. Thoug some old equipments tend to create radio frequences and tuning the Lambda means another station ;)
I would love to hear String II + Chorus +/- Brass w/ the Ensemble engaged... with some slight detune... and some spring reverb. This synth is a lot more interesting than it initially appears.
After seeing this, I grabbed one and I totally love it! :)
Thanks for your great infos and advices!
That's fantastic, Nicolas! I'm glad I didn't steer you wrong!
Where and how so easily?
For the intro music, did you use the lambda to generate the drum sounds?
Joe Cleveland Ha ha, uh... no.
***** Shhhh...
It could be done! :P ( ...but by that point it would've been a waste of time! Also, it would sound NOTHING like what you've done. )
That ultra detuned organ remind me of what you would hear on a carousel. Does the chorus effect the organ?
I wonder if that flat space on the top would be a perfect fit for my Sigma...
It is actually MEANT for the Sigma!
@@automaticgainsay Nice, so I think I’m then meant to have a lambda to hold my sigma…btw as always, thanks for a great informative series…
Do you know of Depeche Mode having used one of these? Listening to that intro piece of yours again made me think of them. Not because of your writing... just the Timbre of this machine.
How did you learn to play so fluidly?? Haha you should put out an album.
I really love your videos, since I'm a synth noob saving up for my first one (some time in the far future), your information is invaluable. Keep on going on!
Leah Rushin Well, I started out with piano lessons as a kid, and then I majored in Music Education in college.
Thanks for watching, Leah! I hope your getting your synth is sooner than later!
Hi, Nice to hear you play and demonstrate the Lambda. Probably you did much more of a better job then even Korg did in its time. I have one and it is still in new condition and I do not like to sell it as I won't find another one like it anywhere. Yes the sound is so rich. The things I miss are the MIDI ports that would have been of much great help and perhaps the keyboard velocity. But for its time it was a King of an organ/synth/keys... Keep up your good work!! Emmanuel..... greetings from The Maltese Islands.... Europe
NO MIDI IN THE LAMBDA ! NEVER!!! THAT IS BLASPHEMY!! hahaha ❤️ i'm a midi freakazoid and i'd NEVER have the lambda retrofit with midi even if it was offered for free lol. it is perfect how it is. u want usb for daw too? and a 16 step tekno sequencer and modular patchpoints and poly aftertouch too? 🤦🏻♀️ yuk lolz
Recently I have used my Lambda with Grandmother. Together they they make a rich sound. I have had Lambda now for more than 30 years..sadly the "brass" does not work. Nice to hear what I have missed. Thanks for many tips how to use Lambda!
Much better than a Roland Juno and an ARP Omni. I should have known that in those years ....
I love that fake reverb in the sound at 12:48!
the decay on the lambda is so natural and shimmering..,,,,i've said a zillion times....OMG IT SOUNDS LIKE IT HAS REVERB ON IT! 🧡💚❤️💚🧡 😃
Ah, this explains the paraphonic aspects better. So it has an independant VCA per voice but only monophonic filtering. A compromise also used on other instruments.
@ 5:29!
YES! T H A T ! ! !
...all of THAT! :]
Hahahahaha!
Does ANYONE know how many oscillators this thing has?!
AFAIK, multiple per key.
ConditionalMan also, just the most amazing sounds at 19:00 with all the ensemble switches engaged
ConditionalMan Theoretically 36... plus dividers. But the result is that it ends up sounding like 3 per key.
holy shit! this is such more versatile than expected.
Too bad, that right now no Lambda is available in Europe.
If anybody is reading this, I am looking for one!!!!!
Did you manage to find a Lambda yet... I have one in brand new condition...
@@Initial_Gain im interested dude. send me a message with the price and where are you located
Last one was great
i'm considering myself lucky having found one of these ~10yrs ago pretty cheaply.
Played one at a korg roadshow way back. Cool. Sigma too. And delta I think it was too? A range.
Howard Forton I had a Delta years ago, but I didn't do a demo!
He's right about the VoX Humana sound being better. Way more interesting here....
sounds very similar to my old hohner organ.
Actually, the strings sound like an accordeon.
No they don't... the strings sound like rich synth strings
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@@Initial_Gain yup 😤👍❤️❤️✊🤣😂🤣
Let me be stupid. I'm the first! Never expected I could be the one.
rydeentokio YOU ARE THE ONE.
We have been waiting for you.
Sorry, still sounds weak. Like cheap Korg.
How do you account for our difference in perception about this?
Also, which "cheap Korg" does this sound like to you?
Hmmm... Solina sounds rich, they found something special, not just simple "tremolo"... It is hard to argue about this. I agree that you may like this sound, but I have different opinion based on my own experience.
You can call it "underrated", but I am sure that the market rates the synths correctly. If this sounded really fantastic, it would not cost "under $1000", because this is a fully analog synth from 70's...
All Korg's instruments of this kind are weak, but still may be useful in skilful hands. E.g, I was offered Korg Delta at $200 some time ago, but discarded, as I prefer to save studio place for more rich-sounding keyboards.
I want you to tell me that the Solina sounds rich with the effect off. With the effect off, you have pure sawtooths and nothing else... and what's worse is that they are divide-down sawtooths with the rigid stability of the very-stable oscillators they were capable of using in divide-down arrangements. As a result, you have pure saws without tone or character with rigid pitch stability. These things are not objective, these are the facts. Now, my conclusion from those facts might have some subjectivity in it, but it is primarily based on this reasoning:
The Solina is a very limited divide-down device with a very pleasing effect. Without the effect, you've got one layer of divide-down oscillators without any character whatsoever. Conversely, the Lambda has THREE layers of divide-down oscillators that can be separately tuned, creating a chorus effect on its own that is the result of the oscillators... without even turning the effect on. It also has a complex compliment of filters that allow timbral shaping to create a diversity of sound (including both low pass and band pass filters). When you have three layers of oscillators stacked atop each other with individual tuning, there is simply no way on Earth that a divide down with only one layer has a "richer sound." Lastly, on top of all of that, the Lambda ALSO has a decent effect to add to all of it.
While it's difficult to escape some opinion in assessment, my assessment is from being an owner of both the Solina AND the Lambda, and describing these physical characteristics.
The market does not rate synths on their character or functionality, it rates synths on their popularity. Sometimes character and functionality play into that popularity, but less so these days where that popularity comes from association with an artist or genre.
You’ve done your job well. The review is nice, but the instrument itself is weak.
You say about artists… You really think that popularity of the synth depends on the artists who used it? So why early Motifs cost that cheap? Crowds of high-level artists used them… And if you bought one for 2-3k ten years ago, now you can drop it for 2-3 hundreds. Why the DX7 costs that cheap? Everyone used the DX7 in the 80’s!
Try to sell your Lambda for $1k. I wonder if someone offers $500. And what about the Solina?
Why do I need to turn the Solina’s effect off? Are you serious? Its BBD delays + LFO make it sound fantastic, why should I use it “nude”? Only to make sure that Lambda’s oscillators sound the same (or even better)? I always turn all the FX’s off when I work with digital synths, ‘cause I prefer Quantec QRS, Lexicon 300, AMS’s and TC2290 better then internal effects. But! Should I turn the BBD delays off? Really? Do I need to listen to Solina’s pure sawtooths? Why?
According to you, if some company produce an instrument with five divide-down layers - it will sound even better then the Lambda. Korg produced Lambda 5 years later then the Solina appeared. They could wait 5 years more and produce the string machine with 7 divide-down layers. Why not? Ok, why don’t you write music with 200 divide-down layers?
Yes, the Solina is limited. It is only a string machine and does not try to be something else. But it makes its work wonderful and sounds fantastic, despite all the limitations. And Lambda is just another string machine trying to be a synth in the full sense.
And what can Lambda set against real synths? Does it sound better then the MS-20? No. Is it more versatile then Jupiters or even Juno-106? No. These are real facts. Lambda’s got dull preset filters. It is got primitive envelopes. The only “wow” is additional filter for brass. What a breakthrough!
Best instruments sound good at any position of knobs, the only thing you do is choose what you need at a specific moment. And what can Lambda offer as a “synth”? Nothing. I listened to your demo and could not hear a single unique sound. Just a cheap copy of Solina trying to be more then it is.
Dude, seriously.
1. The popularity of a synth depends on the artists who used it. Have you ever used a TB-303, an SH-101, or a Solina? If you have, you have to know that they are limited bullshit. As a synthesist, they are intolerable. If you like them, you like them only because of who used them in what song, and not because of what they are capable of.
2. The DX-7 is cheap for two reasons... there are a billion of them, and they were massively over-used.
3. You SHOULDN'T turn the Solina's effect off because it sounds like SAWTOOTHS ONLY... as I said... if there is no effect. You're not even responding to what I'm saying. I am literally saying that WITHOUT the effect, the Solina is JUST SAWTOOTHS and NOTHING ELSE without that effect, and then I fucking described... at length... all of the things that the Lambda can do that the Solina can't... WITHOUT EFFECT. You're not even paying attention.
4. Five divide-down layers? What are you even talking about?
5. If "a string machine does not try to be something else," it should AT LEAST be able to SOUND LIKE STRINGS. A keyboard with ONE STUPID LAYER OF SAWTOOTH OSCILLATORS cannot sound like strings as much as a string synth that uses LAYERED OSCILLATORS, which is what I said in my original post, and you should have understood.
6. "REAL SYNTHS?" You mention "REAL SYNTHS" and then you mention an MS-20 and a JUNO-106? Okay, seriously... do you even know what you're talking about or who you're talking to?