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[PeterJung-IKT]

Dear all,

We at KARO are proud to present our first M3 libraries. Having started with sound design for the OASYS in 2006 we decided to start adapting several of our well-known OASYS libaries to the marvellous KORG M3.

And today we would like to make a small Christmas present to all KORG M3 users seeking new sounds: We ported our KEP1 and KEP2 electric and electronic piano libraries to the M3. The new KEP1M364 contains Rhodes Mk1 and Rhodes Mk2 sounds as well as sounds of the YAMAHA GS-1 vintage synthesizer. The new KEP2M364 complements these sounds by our Wurlitzer and YAMAHA CP-70 sounds.

Both libraries do not require any memory extension, we succeeded in fitting the sounds in the pre-installed 64 MB of RAM being available in the RAM1 bank of the M3.

Both the KEP1M364 and the KEP2M364 will be available for download in the coming days, each for only 29 EUR. Moreover, we will provide a couple of feature demos in MP3 format.

We hope that you will like our KEP1M364 and KEP2M364 libraries.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Best wishes,
Peter

[mikeyd]

Hi Peter:

Need the website address so that we can check it out.

[EWBR]

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[rockfeller]

Hello

I have the pa2x keyboard. It has 128 mb Ram memory. I need a good Wulitzer sound. The pa2x is able to load files in KMP and KSF format, but don't recognise KSC format. Do you think that I can load the multisamples into my pa2x and than create programs by myself?

In the past I succesfully loaded multisamples when there was a folder (containing KSF files) and KMP file with the same name as the folder.

Which formats does the new version of KEP2 (KEP2M364) contain? Are there KMP and KSF too?

Kind Regards

[EWBR]

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[medusaland]

[EWBR]

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[Rob Sherratt]

Peter and Guido,

I listened to the demos and they are very nice. According to your documentation (the PDF file), when the Programs are loaded, there are many variants all with the same name and loaded to the same location in Program Bank User-B, for example:

Rhodes MK1 contains:
00 Karo E. Piano 1
01 Karo E. Piano 2
02 Karo E. Piano 3
03 Karo E. Piano 4
04 Karo E. Piano 5

Rhodes MK2 contains:
00 Karo E. Piano 1
01 Karo E. Piano 2
02 Karo E. Piano 3
03 Karo E. Piano 4
04 Karo E. Piano 5

Wurlitzer contains:
00 Karo E. Piano 1
01 Karo E. Piano 2
02 Karo E. Piano 3
03 Karo E. Piano 4
04 Karo E. Piano 5

Please forgive me for saying this, but if I purchase your sound expansions then I would expect the name of each of the programs to be distinct and meaningful, and I would expect to be be able to load all the programs simultaneously so they do not overwrite each other. It's your job as the designer to ensure that all Programs can be loaded at the same time by providing suitable PCG files. I would not expect to have to do this editing etc myself.

Thanks,
Rob

[PeterJung-IKT]

[PeterJung-IKT]

[Rob Sherratt]

Hi Peter,

I think the Program names should be something like:

Rhodes1 var 1
Rhodes1 var 2
etc

Rhodes2 var 1
Rhodes2 var 2
etc

Wurlitzer var 1
Wurlitzer var 2
etc

GS1 var 1
GS1 var 2
etc

Ideally you should explain what each variant does. e.g Var 1 = Room reverb, Var 2 = Hall reverb, Var 3 = Chorus, Var 4 = Rotary speaker or whatever.

Then if you want my other suggestion, I think you should provide:

a) one set of different PCG's for people with 64 Mb RAM (in which case they make a choice of which PCG they load), \

b) another PCG that loads all the Programs and samples from KEP1M364 (192 Mbytes)

c) another PCG that loads all the programs and samples from KEP2M364 (128 Mbytes)

d) a final PCG that loads all programs and samples from both KEP1M364 and KEP2M364 (320 Mbytes).

If you can do this, I will buy both sets !

Best regards,
Rob

[PeterJung-IKT]

Dear all,

for your convenience, I would like to show the contents of the two libraries, KEP1M364 and KEP2M364. Let's begin with the KEP1M364:



You can see the three folders which contain the samples as well as the three PCG files. In addition, you find the sequencer files which contain the songs that you find as MP3 on the KARO web page.

The KEP2M364 contents look like this:



There are two samples folders and the two PCG and the two sequencer files.

Oh, by the way, I would like to announce that we plan to release a grand piano lib which will contain a Bösendorder and a Steinway grand piano. Again, the samples of each grand piano will fit into the 64 MB of the regular KORG M3. Below, find the contents of the KGP1M364:




So, there will be more to come in January.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

Best wishes,
Peter

[PeterJung-IKT]

[Ultimate Dj]

Congratulations KARO!!!! So happy that you've begun the M3 endeavor!! Welcome to this side of the forum!


puravida
Dj

[medusaland]