Uses similar internal architecture and the EX version should have all the ROM snippets in there.
HAHAHHAHA! The Korg Wavestation owns over those and they are a lot cheaper. Synths that get synth geeks excited are typically older analogs like the Jupiter 8, Juno 60, Arp Odyssey, or Oberheim OBXa digital synths that make us excited are usually well-spec'd VA synths that duplicate the vintage analogs, or the occasional weird synth (Waldorf XT) or something that uses a different type of synthesis like additive or FM. The Fender Strat of synths is the Prophet 5 (my personal favorite of which I own a mint, MIDI'd version). Keyboards that get synthheads drooling are usually way cooler than the M1, and often way older.
If you want something from that era, get a darn Kurzweil K2000 fully expanded and rock on. All a ROMPLER is is a sampler without the ability to sample that has to draw from a small 2-6 mb pool of waveforms.
that time has passed.Īnyway, almost all ROMPLERS are superfluous nowadays because samplers are so darn cheap. At the time it came out, however, it combined sequencing, ROM based sounds and multieffects into a single unit and thus was very impressive. There is nothing that the M1 that a dozen or so other synths do TEN TIMES BETTER. The M1 is 'classic' in the way that gated drum sounds or hair metal bands were. Heck, the stupid K5 is more exciting than the M1. It's just another boring ROMPLER not half as exciting as a JD800 or Korg Wavestation was. Not one of them gets wistful about the M1 because its architecture and feel were duplicated across a five year period (at least!) of synthesizers. I know none of the above comes close to hearing both instruments and playing them side by side.just my attempt to compare them on paper.ĭude, I'm one of the biggest synthheads on the planet.
#Korg wavestation vs roland d50 pro#
I have never read pro or con on the sturdiness and the keyboard feel of the M1 (the original list price was $2166, which suggests high quality).The M1 does have a built-in sequencer (no disk-drive, Hey M1 owners can you save sequences to a card or do you have to hook it up to a computer to save sequences). The (basic, unaltered) M1 has only 16-voice polyphony and 4 MB of waveforms ( the X5D has 64-voice polyphony and 8 MB of waveforms.).the M1 was introduced in '88, 7 years before the introduction of the X5D which leads me to believe that the X5D would sound (for good or bad) the more modern of the two.
#Korg wavestation vs roland d50 Pc#
It does have a built-in PC interface (I don't know what that means but it might be important to you) The Korg XD5 came out in '95 (list price - $895) with top-of-the-line sounds (8 MB of waveforms) and polyphony (64 max) in an otherwise barebones package (no sequencer or disk-drive) and a couple of owners mentioned in the links that it's not a great instrument to take on the road implying that it could have been built sturdier and putting into question how the keys "feel" (if that is something that is important to you). It has a nostalgia element to me (like a car lovers veiw of a 60's classic Mustang). I have never played one but have heard about it for the last ten years. The Korg M1 is a classic, a best seller by which all other synthesizers where measured during its first four or five years of production (produced from '88-'94). I have read through some information on these two keybaords ("Keyfax Ominbus Edition" by Julian Colbeck, the sonicstate website, and bsr2002's links) and a few things jump out at me.
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