Korg M3R - The M1's super little brother
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- The Korg M3R. The little brother module of M1, both from the late 80s and classic synthesizers from the era with some iconic sounds like THE house piano, bass and organ.
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The demo song was a challenge as the drums inside the M3R are very crisp and not very dense low end. I had to layer, process, eq and compress to make the kick beefy enough and a combination of that kick and some snares makes out the final snare in the track. Again, layered, eq'ed and compressed.
The pads in the verses are made by multi tracking several pads and detuning them track by track. Just good old fashioned mixing.
The vocals are from a vocal sample download I bought many years ago and after all these years they finally came to life. The vocals are heavily pitched, stretched and manipulated to sound they way they do.
The demo song has loads of Valhalla VintageVerb on it, but the patch examples in the last part of the video uses only effects from the M3R, no external effects at all on these.
The demo song here is just another version, with another top-line of a song I released commercially some time ago, you can find the original here:
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Growing up I listened to so much synth-pop and it's only natural that my own music takes inspiration from many of the acts I loved back then. I still love them and listen to them!
Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, The Human League, Propaganda. FGTH, Ultravox, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha as well as loads of artists doing what is now called Italo Disco. And many more great acts like Nik Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Dire Straits ++ - Hudba
Bought this little guy many years ago,and loaded it with all the M1 presets I got off a programmer.
Sounds the business!
8:57 OMG, Espen, you just hurled me right bacl to my University days in Adelaide, Australia, in 1993, when I bought a 03RW and I spent every night writing songs with this patch and chord progressions for the most beautiful girl in the world! *sigh*
Did you get her in the end?
@@EspenKraft Actually, yes! czcams.com/video/JFyod2_t3C0/video.html
@@EspenKraft I failed to get mine, but ended up with so much money I own 2 houses and 3 cars, lol
Lovely sounds! The M3R is incredible bang for your buck and absolutely gives you those classic M1 tones we all love. Great work Espen!
Many thanks! Indeed a very nice bang for the buck here! ;-)
Again, you bring out the best in these machines! Great work.
Thanks Hooman! :D
Hi Espen, one of these little gems occupies an exalted space in my rack. Thanks for posting!
Cheers!
Maybe 3 weeks ago I discovered one of these hidden in the back of a local pawn shop. For $35 I figured I couldn't go wrong.... I liked it before but after seeing it be "Kraft-esized" in the video I am going to need to spend more time with it!
Thanks Espen!
Do it! ;-)
Wow!! I love the rare times that a person can go into a pawnshop and get such a great deal. The ones in my area most often want to charge "brand new" prices for things. But a deal like this you just chalk one up for the customer and the fact that most likely the pawnshop had no clue what it was lol.
@@kevinlangley9644 I am constantly scoping out the used market everywhere I can. Craigslist, pawnshops, flea markets, and garage sales! I have found several deals when churches are ready to upgrade their music department. They usually let things go cheap, like the Ensoniq TS12 I bought last weekend for $150. Just gotta keep the search going brother!
Wow!!! You know thats great advice!!! In all my years ive never even thought about checking with churches. Thanks man. I bet my pwn church has stuff cause they've not used their p a system in forever. Not needed since ive been going there for like 9 yrs. We don't heve enough people going there to warrant using it. We could fit everyone that goes there on the first 3 or 4 rows of both sides of the church.
Now I need this one! Great video and playing, many nostalgic moments.
Thanks!
Thank you you maestro!!! I was having a bad P.T.S.D. day until your little concert. Thank you again Epson!!!!! As always take care and be safe, Rick!!!!!
Thanks! You too Rick!
A new enjoyable video, as always Espen! Thanks for this new nostalgic demo and nice intro track!!
Many thanks!
I could listen to you talk about and play synths for ages. And then… you play Audrey’s Dance!! Made my heart soar!! Thank you, my friend!
Many thanks for saying! Cheers
Thank you Espen. I use to have this one. It brings some positive memories.
Cheers!
Spent many nights at clubs like the Hacienda hearing those sounds work the crowd, love it.
this and a proteus were my tools for years.
Perfect timing ⏱- I have one in the mail arriving later this week - nice add on of extra sounds to my Korg micro Korg xl + - I dig the classic rompler sounds and the DWGS presets at t end of the factory preset bank
Rremember kids: Once a good sound is always a good sound!
when i hear that Atlantic patch i can immediately see and even smell the old music store i used to visit as a teenager. I apologize all the shop guys for being a pain in the neck. But be sure: i gave and give it all back, just one generation later ;)
I have a couple of sounds (from other synths) that takes me straight to the counter of some of the stores I used to visit. ;-)
Hola Espen esperaba tu video. Excelente como siempre... Saludos
Cheers!
There may be some magic in that Burr Brown DAC. I don't hear noise, screech, or harshness. Smooth and warm. One little chip can make or break the quality of overall sound.
What's hilarious about this ... the love for that DAC ... is this was back when DACs were so technically difficult to manufacture (and therefore expensive), that you had to use a SINGLE, MONO converter and a sample-and-hold circuit to multiplex the DAC's output for each analog output channel.
The PCM54 (and siblings) was really popular around this time. Roland used it a lot as well. Some of those synths had 6 or 8 channels, so the DAC was converting at up to 8x the sample rate.
But, were we concerned about the S&H? The jitter of the sample clock? The linearity of all that high-speed conversion and analog switching? Nope. Just enjoying the sound.
Today's ICs will _beat the pants off_ that old circuit in terms of specifications. Yet, we'll look back in fondness for these old boxes, often at lower-than-CD quality sampling rates (often 32kHz or so), tiny tiny ROM sets, and Rube-Goldberg converter arrangements. :-) Just goes to show, if you put attention to detail into the design and implementation of the hardware, the samples, and the patches, that counts for a whole heck of a lot.
Very nice video shows how nice this module really is I picked one up with the RE-1 remote editor a few years back makes programming the M3R fun and easier.
Cheers!
thx Espen very nice ! I had also the Korg M3R and used it with Midisyntguitar Casio PG380 in 1990-94 ! It sounded so great !
I bet! :D
Espen, you are creating tension and conflict in me. I was going to sell my M3R, but now your are making me reconsider. Grrrrr. I have the 01/W, so I am not sure how much I will miss it the M3R. I have been wanting the M1REX which is what I ideally want, since I had the M1 in the 80’s and I miss it. Excellent work on this video.
Thanks! The 01/w sounds like getting stuck in a marsh compared to a M series. The M series is much much crisper than the 01 series, so I suggest keep both.
@@EspenKraft If you want the crisp sound of the M series from a 01/W synth, go for the 03R/W :) I have both ...
@@EspenKraft The 01W chip (similar to the Wavestation SR chip), it's a little brighter overall than the M/T series.
I'm lucky enough to have the best of all worlds from that era, have the T3ex, 01/Wfd, and the Wavestation SR 😃
That piano at 15:35 is the sweetest sound of a thousand records of the era.
Great song and video 💯💯💯 Thank you!!
Many thanks!
Wow !!!!! So beautiful ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
thanks for reminding me what I need in my setup
Do it!
I'm gonna have nightmares tonight 😂. I mentioned when you got this (and the other pieces) that I bought an M3R new around 1991 for $550 and sold it for $75 15 years later. One of my favorite patches (Multisound, as they call it) was #45 Tenor Sax. I used to hook up my Casio DH100 MIDI horn to it and play around. Cheers 🥂
Cheers!
The Saxophone sound is still great on the 01/W as well.
I bought my first one for $60, way back in 2000ish. Sold it like 5 years later for around the same. I have the Legacy M1 now, so I never really lost the sounds.
Nice track man !
Thanks!
Awesome... I have one of these plus an M1R and a TR rack that I inherited from a departed friend. Thanks for giving them some context.
Cheers!
@@EspenKraft I'm really enjoying your demos, commentary, and music. Glad to have subscribed.
Really considering this one. Had an M1 for years (my first synth) and I do miss a lot of the internal sounds. Great video as always, Espen!
Cheers!
Lot's of great new age-y sounds. Good memories of this synth. I'll never get that Fosterism patch out of my head!
Cheers!
Miss that M3r it sounds darn good ❤️ cheers
Cheers!
Super track, wow, this is nailing the 8ties.
Cheers!
Fantastic !
Cheers!
Hi Aspen, I just ran across this review of the M3R (I also have one also). Great job. I really believe you can make anything sound good! 🙂
Thanks!
Classic Sounds
I had one. If you like reverb-drenched everything, this was for you. I have huge nostalgia for this and the sample players of the 90s... Give me a this and a Roland sc88 and I'm happy.
Can never have too much reverb.
Thanks a lot!!!!!
Wow. Thank you for solving a problem I didn't know I was still wondering about. That Grand Piano patch was used in a lot of Top 40 I grew up with in the 90s. Even then I knew it was a synth, albeit a good-sounding one (especially for the day), but couldn't figure out what it was. Now I know what series of Korg I should be looking for. 💸 Thank you! 👍
Cheers!
I really love those late 80's and early 90's sounds!!! I have the VST M1 and the iM1, though.
Me too im.a musician but im gonna recreated the 80s sounds
Franchement, j'aime beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup !!! Bravo !
Bravo et merci pour cette présentation.
J'aime bien votre morceau qui sonne année 80 ....
I have one of these. And I dont use it often. But when i do, it always sounds right.
Korg has my favorite samples. I still own a Korg 05R/W.
Nice song! I wished it would have been released in ~1990!
Thanks!
I see a Korg Poly 61 in the video. That was the first synth that I had regular access to at my high school back in the late 80s and I programmed it to death, despite its limitations.
Poly-61 is one of my favorites for that early 80s Italo Disco. ;-)
@@EspenKraft I loved listening to Italo Euro disco and hi-energy when I was growing up and it was around the same time that I started getting well acquainted with the Poly 61. I've had a soft spot for Korg ever since having owned over a dozen of their instruments over the past 30 years.
My setup in the early 90s, TX16W, M3r, controlled by Cubase on Atari ST. I still have all three. Couldn‘t sell them for nostalgic reasons. ❤️
Magic Espen.
Awesome.
Thanks!
I've got two of these with two synth cards. So I have two oscillators.
Have both this and the M1R in my rack. I honestly love the clarity of the M3R and use sounds from it all the time.
ah, this channel is just
Thanks!
The M3R comes up a lot on eBay. Nice to finally know what is up with it.
Slap Clav and string pad sounds Amazing 😎👍For beaing a Digital synth the M3R/M1 has a very warm sound probably due to old op amps like (TLA 072, TLA 074 )being used in the circuits boards and of course the construction of the main board was aimed at Fat big Warm sound and the Burr Brown DA converter was matched to obtain this. Late eighties 88-89 digital synths still compete against Big fat Warm Sound of analog synths.
Beautiful. I have one
I like this song
Thanks!
The M3R are amazing, in fact I got the M1R and M1ex but I mostly just go for the M3R with the RE1 handy. oh and the S3 Perc are unique too Thanks Espen, Those were the sweet creative days.
Cheers!
Thanks Espen, for reminding me about my m3r I have not used in quite a while. You know you get stuck in the vst instruments these days. Glad to see you are good.
Nothing beats the real deal. ;-)
@@EspenKraft +10, no matter how hard i try, slightly modding parameters, adding low pass filters, etc.... I just can't really make the M1 vst sound exactly like the HW M1 (in my case my T3) in some patches, the warmth, fullness and "3D sound" just isn't there. A lot of it is the older DAC's from the hardware units. Even though one of the guys involved in the R&D of the M1 vst clearly stated they removed a low pass filter the hardware M1 had just before the converters...
Nice one! Korg m1 MOBY Piano))
Thumbs up! 👍
Cheers!
All these sounds make me think of Jan Hammer’s “Snapshots”, “Drive”, and “Beyond the Mind’s Eye” albums. I believe he used a lot of M1 on those. Great demo, as always, Espen! 😎
Thanks man!
I have the entire "Beyond..." series on VHS -- I believe its probably a lot of M1, but the real star on those is the Korg Wavestation!
It was an 01/W for Beyond the Mind's Eye which was programmed with the help of Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess way before he was in the band and was just a Korg employee.
did i hear a little twin peaks?
Indeed you did.
@@EspenKraft
Great synth! Pleasant sounds! He would have another sister - 03RW))
Sounds like an early 90's Nature/travel tv show.
Ah shoot. I really missed it on this one then. ;-)
good video
Thanks!
I always thought the M series was massively underrated, despite being so well-used.
T and 01W are basically its extended versions, again even more forgotten now. Everyone speaks about M1, D50, DX7 but 01W, D70 and SY85 are rarely coming in memory of people. But I see the T-series growing in price.
@@vintagesynthesizers I just picked up an EX5 for a reasonable price. I have two classics which are a DX7 Mk1 and DX7s mk II. I have the M3R in iPad version in Korg Module. Would love to get my hands on a real one though...or actually to rephrase, a hardware one
Scott Cupp I had an EX5 before and i really liked it. Ive had sooooo many synths and modules over the span of 30 years and wish i had all the ones I've let go back. Even with its inability to transmit the arpeggiator over midi id like to have my old yamaha csx1 back. There were alot of presets on there that were actually pretty good from the factory. One in particular was a spot on sound that Brian May used on the remix of under pressure from one of Queens greatest hits albums. Don't know if you're familiar with that particular remix but he used a keyboard in place of the clean guitar. But ive had to let go of so many because of money issues or thought well ill get another one sometime down the road and just never was able to. I guess in all this rambling my point is to anyone that if you dont ever have to get rid of your music equipment no matter what the piece may be dont do it. Just put it to the side for awhile and i promise you will want or need to use it down the road.
@@vintagesynthesizers I'g give 100 👍 to your comment if i could... 😉
Could't agree more, everyone is always drooling over the M1 and it reaches ridiculous prices on the 2nd hand market, when a T3 IS literally an M1, same 99 samples and drum samples as an M1, only with more samples added, same effects algorithms as the M1, same synthesis engine and OS as the M1, the only thing different is the larger display and the disk drive.
I bought my (mint) T3ex around 2014 for 100€!!! .... i mean 100€..... i didn't "bought it", the guy "offered it" to me and i gave him a "tip" to go and grab a beer or 10... A STEAL!! I've seen some M1's go for 700€ plus!!
I also have two 01/Wfd's, have a lot of the samples the M1/T3 has, only with better resolution and an improved synth engine derived from the M&T series AI synthesis, and a lot of the VS samples from the Wavestation, waveshaping, more effects, more rom sample memory, and it can sound much more full and fat than the M1/T3 will ever can, to me it's a Pad machine....
"Jhada" at 11:42 ❤️❤️❤️. My go-to patch when I wanted to demonstrate touch-sensitiviy.
ok, I know how this goes. I like the sound. I casually look over to see how many RU are left in my rack. Dude, you have a VST M1 from Korg with all of the sounds. Yeah, but...
Catchy tune! Gave me vibes from Porter Robinson/Madeon's Shelter. :D
Did not expect you to be a Porter/Madeon fan!
@@thomasaustin8477 who isnt lol
Thanks! Didn't think of this. I've released this song earlier where the samples are off and I sing myself. Another melody-line though and no M3R. ;-)
@@EspenKraft this kind of vocal suits very well your music and this track is a banger Espen. Any chances to get this song in a longer version? :D
@@rogergarriga3917 These vocals were just something I put over the music to get this video going. The song is actually released commercially some time ago, with my vocals on it and totally different top line and lyrics. You can find it in the video description. Cheers :D
Even this was out of my price range at that time. It's as nice sounding as I remember though.
I paid US$850 for a new M3r in 1991 in Hollywood, CA. The M1r was going for $1500 at the time. The M1 close to 2K.
The M3R contains a number of samples that later appeared in the T series of workstations. The fx section is identical to the M1 with 33 effects.
Although everywhere it is written that the Korg M3R motherboard sound sample memory is 3 MiB, but according to the Service Manual it contains four 512 KiB chips, which is a total of 2 MiB. You can also see them at 5:32. The demo is good as always!
Good point. Absolutely all references say 3Mb. I've never investigated further though. Cheers
The official Korg M3R manual (page 97) and an older original product brochure from Korg told it as well...talking about 16 MBit of waveform ROM, which is 2 Megabytes.
worth it for the "pole" sample alone
Interesting. I found two of the patches sounding very similar to what is used in the theme song and several other songs in the 1990 Swedish movie "Black Jack" by Colin Nutley with Helena Bergström.
Both Breathing and Grand piano sound eerie similar.
As usual excellent content. Ha de fra Sverige.
Norge tackar tilbaks! :D
Sych a great synth! I will have to make do with Korg's official M1 vst myself. No room for hardware synths.
If it’s possible to reflect “Lessons in Love”, .”It’s a Sin” and (of all things) the Fatboy Slim single “Praise You”, I say you did it with the intro track, Espen.
At a glance, the M3r physically reminds me of one of its successors, the 05rw (I miss the one I used to own). There may be little correlation between them, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had more in common than just the M1 soundest. I realize that a key difference is that the M3r predates the implementation of General MIDI by a couple of years.
Ive probably said this before but if i have it just shows i truly mean it. You are one of the best. I love hearing everything you perform. I get lost in my own little 80's world while listening. Im sure there are many others that will agree with me. All that being said. Ive owned an M1R twice in my life and was stupid enough to let both of them go. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after selling the 1st one. But anyway I now have a chance to get one of these from a local music store for $145.00. It works fine just a little rack rash. In your opinion is that a good deal? They are holding it for me until i say yes or no if i want to get it.
Many thanks Kevin! Go get that M1R. Do it now!
My apologies. I didn't clarify that it's actually an M3R for $145.00. I was just stating that I've owned 2 M1R's before. So sorry for that.
I'd say it's too much for that. $100 tops.
Thank you. I'll just see if maybe i can talk them down to that. You know the saying...."money talks and b.s. walks". Lol.
As with probably the majority of your followers i value your judgement and opinion.
Very nice video, thanks for showcasing this module form 30+ years ago. You have caused great confusion in my life: I was about to sell a Wavestation EX, M1r and an M3r, and now I don't want to part with any of them!!! One thing I want to point out about the M3r is that unlike the M1r, the M3r has waveforms from the M1 AND the T series, so it does have some sonic uniqueness to it. In that sense, the M3r actually has more in common with the M1REX, which I believe also has waveforms from the T series. Cheers!
Also, the M3r really shines with aftermarket / custom patches. Around 10 years ago, I found a file online with about a dozen sysex files for the M3r, and some of these patches really took the M3r to a new level. This thing is capable of some incredible sounds and textures. I have no idea where I found these sysex files, but I'm sure that they're floating around somewhere out there!
Cheers!
I got one of these recently with a random Valhala card in it... the card had some really interesting sounds on it! The cards cost nearly as much as the synth itself, it seems. Or, that is what people are asking for them - no idea what they sell for.
A bit like the Yamaha TX81Z, it is a pain to edit through the front panel. But, with a bit of software, it becomes a lot easier and really opened up the unit for me.
Great and playing the M3R from the DX7 has an interesting connection: The M1 has the same keybed as the DX7.
Cheers!
Yup, it's the same FS1 Yamaha keybed, present on all Yamaha and Korg flagship synths from the mid 80's to mid 2000's. On Yamaha from the original DX7 up until the Motif ES series, on Korg since the M1 up until the 76 key Oasys 😉
This is wonderful. I also listened to the original version as well. I prefer this one. You really should look into the Vocaloid as an extension of your synth music
Many thanks! I know Vocaloid and what it can do, but that's not what I do. I'm staying in the 80s and in the 80s you had to use samplers to do voice manipulation, so I'm only doing what I did then, now. ;-)
❤👏
I just picked up an M3R for a great price. I am going to use it with my 1991 Casio Midi guitar. I have had Roland stuff but proprietary cables bug me. Good for jamming and band stuff. I have a Ketron SD40 I gig with, but wanted something simple and sturdy to just have in case I go jam and pretend to be a keyboardist, or need to toss in KB sounds
i found 1 of these at a garage sale 👍
8:59 this is the SAME sound of piano Walter Afanasieff used for Mariah Carey’s “Anytime You Need A Friend” 😱
My M3R is missing the volume knob cap too.
Really hope Korg do a new synth as a successor to their M series much like how they did with the Wavestate from the Wavestation etc.
They have already. The Nautilus.
@@dzod But not as a desktop unfortunately.
I am pretty new with this. But I would really appreciate if someone can answer my question.
Would this work in live settings, connecting M3r to a Midi keyboard controller. Can I save patches and switch from patch to patch? Can I also layer sounds ? Thanks in advance
Ah, I had the 05r/w which I believe was next generation, but very close, first thing I had that could get fairly realistic everything. And I though of it as "warm" lol!
The 01 series sounds quite different from the M series imo. The M series are much crisper overall.
I have one too. The 05R/W is a little more powerful and has better samples but lacks a little of punch and crispiness. I have also 2 M3r. I am keeping the whole bunch since I like all of them in their own way.
01/W was the "high end" successor to the M1
X3 was a "middle end" successor to the M1
01R/W is the rack version of the 01/W and X3R is the rack version of the X3
03R/W is a stripped down 01/RW and 05R/W is a stripped down X3R (just as the M3R is a stripped down M1R)
Arguably the X5D / X5DR was the most evolved AI2 synth in the series, it was the low end successor to the 01/W...
But for us that was born in the mid 70:s and conditioned on the orginal DX7, the D-50 and the M1, those synths still just sounds the best! I'm sure that what we hear as "crisp" would be described as "badly filtered crappy old low resolution digital aliasing", or something like that, by those young whippersnappers born in the 80:s... :-)
@@EspenKraft interesting it definitely was crisp or biting, especially compared to the Kurweil k2000 I got next, but I really like that Korg!
@@littlebritain64 I looked at the price of one now and almost want to get it for nostalgia, but have to resist, lol!
I just got this and just to be sure, is it possible to stack one sound with another? Like a piano sound and a string sound?
M3R is basically a module replication of M1, but has got those famous sound preset as the M1 which I'd like to have one day. Nice demo song, who's the singer?
Thanks! Check the video description for details about the demo song. ;-)
@@EspenKraft I read it after writing the post, thanks anyway Espen! :-)
So what is the best phonic legacy of the M1? That Organ patch or the bell pianos….pan pipes or Universe?
Great video, Espen.
I'd say the Grand Piano.
I must be a little different to a lot of people on this one.... a lot of people drool about the M1 Piano and the Organ2 patch, i never really did... Always thought the Piano sounded way too bright and hard for my music, same as the Organ2 patch with the perc settings a bit too pronounced in the sample. Mind you i never really cared much for House or Dance music, especially in the 90's.
And the M1 was all i had in the 90's, i played Pop, Rock and everything in between, apart from Praise and Worship music in my church at the time. And was always pissed lusting for those great Stainway-ish Roland lush piano patches when all i had to work with was the bloody bright and sharp M1 piano sample, but i would got by nevertheless... If you add a dx7 type EP and a pad in the background it will sound better.
As for the Organ2, i always wanted some Hammond type patched without perc, so the Organ2 was used very little.
Always preferred the T3 Piano2 patch way better than the M1 Piano. To me the M1 as well as the T series, as always excelled in bell-ish patches, some pads, the E. pianos, some strings, pan flute and related patches, solo sax, and the choir/vocal pads.
Well... and the Seinfeld slap bass too... 🤣
Just won one of these for 50 bucks - can’t quite believe my luck!
Funny thing remembering my M1 is that I liked the DWGS samples more, when trying to create my own sounds.
I'm quite happy now with only the iM1 on the iPad. Sounds very close and has a lot of additional "cards" shipped. And has filter resonance, which was not even put back into Korg products till the mid 9ties. Ok, my X2 has a limp function, which emphasizes the resonance a bit, but otherwise it really sounds too compressed and uninspiring. In the garage at the mo.
The "nice" thing about the X2 was though, that when you switch programs on the fly during live playing, the old sound still carried until you released that note, blending over. Super.
But that is now digressing into the 9ties, so sorry.
I got one after my M1R broke down totally. I think the M3R are practically the same but much harder to edit. Really nice 90s sounds if you are into that. Great review!
So, hypothetically speaking (because I put myself on a temporary moratorium, after acquiring a bunch of modules that Espen would possibly approve of): if it were a choice between the M1R, the M1R with EX-M1R expansion and the M3R, are the bigger brothers more worth it? Going prices for the M3R appear to be around 1/3 to 1/2 of an unexpanded M1R.
Yes, the M1R would be my recommendation. With or without expansions.
@@DF-eg8vl I prefer hardware.
@@DF-eg8vl If your main source of inspiration is looking at a screen, operating a mouse, then do that.
Sounds like pet shop boys 80’s
I wonder what the heck they sampled to get that piano sound.
It's just a grand piano, they just compressed it a lot.
What do you think about the TG-55 ? Its in the same league.
Fosterism rocks!
Bet the DX would have done a nicer bass lead sound but ya I know its about the Korg and the bass sound is nice still, stands out in all band areas I heard
Espen - As always, great video! I still have my original M1.
I'm curious why you say that this is NOT a ROMpler? My experience has been that any instrument that uses non-changeable sampled waveforms as oscillators is a ROMpler. It isn't about whether there are filters or modulation capabilities. It's the fact that it uses sampled static waveforms instead of generated waveforms. So even the E-MU Proteus 2500 and its Command Station brethren with their Z-Plane filters or the JV line of Rolands fit the ROMpler category. I'm not saying that you're mistaken. I'm just curious where you got your definition of a ROMpler and what you believe qualifies as one. Peace.
From what I understand, if you can edit the sampled sounds like a synthesizer then it's not a ROMpler
Como lo puedo escuchar subtitulado en español?