Travelinni wrote:Poumtschak wrote:Travelinni wrote:I mean just look at it.
A filter steals a VOICE?????
DSP horsepower isn't infinite, especially on a low specs and low power device (which was designed to run on batteries, remember).
Since they choose to offer dynamic allocation of limited ressources over guaranteed performances, too bad we don't have a CPU gauge or realtime used voices, since the "24 voices" are just a very best case scenario.
These units would have deserved more support, indeed.
Mate , the EMX-1 only has 5 channels and it's 100000% better than those digital things .
Sure Korg , 24 voices .
Trying to impress me when ''voices'' mean filter manipulation and other motion sequence recordings?
Anyways , thanks to you guys for letting me know how bad that is and how Korg actually behaves regarding supporting their customers and musicians alike.
Running on batteries isn't the issue. The Microkorg also runs on batteries and it's polyphonic and there's no ''voice'' stealing. My laptop runs on batteries aswel and i've got as many voices as I want , so sorry mate but that's not an excuse for them doing what they did.
It just proves how lazy and cheap Korg's playing their game and seriously

that synth architecture ta f*ck

When a company says VOICES we expect it to be related to VCO's and not VCF's. Korg actually cheated and lied their way into this and tricking customers.
Glad i didn't fall in their pony trick.
I'll have my EM-1 and I'm grabbing an EMX-1 next when possible.
There's a way to also get the old tribes running on batteries with a mod if you know how to do it but i'm not risking frying the board with it.
I feel sorry for you guys that bought their latest stuff , i really do.
Gosh even a roland jv1080 is 64voices and you know what?
It is!
You can even swap voices in between channels if you want!
And when i mean voices i mean hitting notes note filtering.
Seriously ...
That sounds like the same problem with modplug tracker with vsti's.
for each modulation you have to create a ''channel''plus for the vsti to slide you'll have to create an extra channel to be able to overlap notes because vsti's are not meant for trackers they're meant for daw's.
So seriously , f*ck dat s**t.
Korg= Liars & Cheaters.

Again another one.
Why don't you simply buy the Roland jx1080 then?
Also if you think about the old EMX has the same voice number.
5 synth+5 filter+7 drum+7filter(I count 7 because 6a/6b and 7a/7b choke each other)=24
All the effect are MFX so it doesn't count as voice.
The old ESX has less voice and only 2 part to play "keyboard".
With the new one they open up the restrictions so you can do whatever you want it.
You have S&H modulation which is synced to bpm and behave like a square lfo + random modulation where in the past you had only S&H synced or not.
You got the start/rev point modulation which I'm sure a lot of users didn't explore enough, it's a unique feature, sometimes you can achieve "synth" sound on long sample, ambience stuff or create long tail on certain drum sounds. You can modulate the IFX.
The ESX 2 receive few synth where in the past it was a straight sampler and the EMX 2 has more synth and filter where the old one just the same as the ESX but with drive.
Did you listen to those filter? They really make a difference where in the old one you stuck with that filter, which is good for drums less for synth.
That DIGITAL Filter sounds smooth and better than certain vst.
You go the Kaoss Pad where you can add extra stuff to your beat , you can mute/unmute your MFX, you have to do one by one in the old one.
You have velocity sensitive pad, sure not the best but playable and if you use an external pad controller they really shine.
You got Attack, where's the attack on the old one?
Do I really have to continue?
I'm upset with Korg too but with those sort of comments we can forget about they give a s**t about us. That's why I give up, no because of Korg but for users who complain about no sense stuff.