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[synthjoe]

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=420830#420830

I fully support Kevin's idea and I think it has been said by many and many times before. Hence I thought it might worth a poll here - maybe it gets more attention...

Also, reshaping download sections a little to reflect these changes would be nice.

My .02

[michelkeijzers]

I noticed for my PCG Tools (which is not available for pre Triton, sorry for that), that I even get a lot less hits for the Tritons than for more recent synths.

However, for specific questions it would be nice to have more folders.
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[X-Trade]

I actually tend to think there are too many sections. Particularly the tritons - the majority of questions that arise aren't specific for a certain model and could be answered under any of the sections.

It is nice to seperate the entry level and more professional products though - excuse any controversial thinking, but you tend to find more in-depth discussions for the professional products and more 'how do I plug X into Y' and 'How do I record samples on my Synthesizer?' questions... (If you at least get the direction i'm coming from, excuse any blunt generalisations).

The Korg Synths (General) sections covers mostly older instruments that don't really get enough traffic on their own to warrant their own section.

Many newcomers struggle to get past or understand the many sections as it is - and sometimes just go for one of the first 10 options and post there rather than finding the right section - so I don't really think more sections are the answer.

Of course, these are my personal opinions and in no way reflect any official position (as a moderator) with regards to for example Sharp's decisions on the structure of KF
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[synthjoe]

Okay, some interesting results here!
Majority so far (low number of votes, though) seems to think that no changes are needed.

[SanderXpander]

Naming of the forums is important though. I would venture that most people coming here with questions have no idea what engine is inside their synth. So I would choose combining all the Triton forums into one called "Triton" and then a subtext "all HI-bases synthesis, including Triton Classic, Extreme, Light, TR etc etc etc.

[synthjoe]

[jhulk]

it should be specific to the synthesis engine

also these ancient machines are great for creativity

to much to do in new synths all done for you massive sample engines

instead of being creative they are just whole recordings of other peoples performances so people are starting to be just key pressers and letting some ones elses performance do it for them

its the same with the karma arpeg they do what 2 hands need to do with 1 finger yes they are great but its making lazy keyboard players

and doing the imagination for you and every body can sound the same

its like soft synths every one is using the same synth and every body is sounding the same

if ancient stuff is so bad why is the old expressive stuff starting to sell like hot cakes and there price is sky rocketing

this time last year you could pick up an m1 for £100 they are now selling for £250+ and that is becuase of users trying the software version

the hardware has more punch than the soft version

and the monopoly is way fatter than the softversion

and my korg dss1 with its massive 16mb sampleram kick tritons teeth in for breakfast

theres something to be said for analog filters

thats why the diy tech is flying ahead becuase they know low bit synth engines coupled with real analog filters sound way better than dsp filters

[SanderXpander]

Yes! Let's all go back to out of tune monophonic synths with no memory and impossible to lug around cp80s! Modern synths are creativity killers! That's why people like Herbie Hancock and Jordan Rudess play them, after all!
I'm going back to sequencing on my Atari too, it just sounds better.

[Morshu]

i love the m1 but i dont have one

[Gargamel314]

my thoughts are ... i'm okay with how things are, things are working fine in there, but right now the "Korg Synths" subforum is an odds and ends forum. If you've played/programmed an M1 or an N364, you pretty much have a good idea of how ALL of the rest of the AI/AI2 synths work. But then some of the newer but less popular synths (the ones that aren't Kronos's or M50's) get thrown in there too like the Monotron, the PS60, Microstation, MP10 Pro ... which is kinda irrelevant to the rest of what's covered. And the poor microstation people REALLY want their own forum!

It's not really a matter of forum traffic, but if you're just starting out with your first X5D, and you see this GIANT forum full of a million subforums, and all the way at the bottom is a bucket-list of random archaic 1980's/1990's synths and workstations, it's pretty easy to miss and you'd prob just end up posting in that "Testing This Forum" category where no one ever goes, or in the Kronos forum. People STILL use these synths, and they still buy them on eBay and have questions, especially now that they're aged and are starting to malfunction.

The Downloads section also looks like it hasn't been touched in years... just sayin it would be nice to see that reorganized/updated. But the best way to separate those would still be to separate by the Korg SYSEX model #, so keep X3 & N364's together, but separate from the 01/W, N5, etc., since they're not necessarily interchangeable (some are, some aren't).

What would be REALLY neat, would be to link each download section to each sub-forum. That way it's right there to access every time you visit the forum. I wonder how many people who use this site even know we have a downloads page.

[chilly7]

Dinosaurs.....

p.s. might be dengerous for penguins...
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[cello]

+1 - have to say that grouping makes a lot of sense!
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[X-Trade]

Except that to call MOSS, Radias, R3 etc 'virtual analog' is so limiting. 'analog' is but a subset of what they can do. The only ones that are really 'virtual analog' are the MS2000 and original MicroKorg.

I find it works quite well though to separate 'workstations' from 'synthesizers'. add 'arrangers' and 'grooveboxes' too. I'm not quite sure how that difference is quantified but every instrument only falls into one of those categories.
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[cello]

^^ Good point about the arrangers and groovebox thingies
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