Korg DS-10 Plus!

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:46 pm

While there are many advantages to using balanced signals in professional audio, a balanced signal isn't any better than an unbalanced one for audio quality merely because it is balanced. It's that balanced signals use two conductors dedicated to the signal that are opposite in polarity, often shielded individually in the cable, and electrically separate from the cable ground/shield. A balanced signal helps to keep the signal clean, but it doesn't improve it.

Balanced signals are much more important for long cable runs because electromagnetic interference and noise is reduced due to common mode rejection, in which interference gets cancelled out. In a DJ or musician scenario where the cable runs are very short and if you have a clean grounding of all the gear, then there is NO practical difference between balanced and unbalanced connections. That's why so much DJ gear uses unbalanced line level signals with RCA jacks, because the benefits of balanced signals don't give any benefit but increases the cost substantially. Having a balanced output is convenient for a musician to hook up to a PA system through a snake, because in this case the long cable run is better when balanced and prevents you from having to buy a separate DI box to convert from unbalanced to balanced to run to the main PA mixer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_line

dayuri · Post by **dayuri** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:11 pm

Sounds great. I'm a bit bummed the pattern length isn't extended. I'd trade that in for extra synths any day. The original DS-10 already is pretty flexible in terms of oscillators for what I do anyway. Still, having two DS-es would be sweet.

I am curious as to wether anyone can verify that it'll sound better. My main gripe about the DS-10 is that it sounds weak, I can still make up for part of that with the KP3, but its still a bit of a pain.

SMK · Post by **SMK** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:36 am

dayuri wrote:Sounds great. I'm a bit bummed the pattern length isn't extended. I'd trade that in for extra synths any day. The original DS-10 already is pretty flexible in terms of oscillators for what I do anyway. Still, having two DS-es would be sweet.

I am curious as to wether anyone can verify that it'll sound better. My main gripe about the DS-10 is that it sounds weak, I can still make up for part of that with the KP3, but its still a bit of a pain.

Check out xmlguys comments to me on the first page of this thread about the same subject...he really took the time to know his stuff on this. But basically it all amounts to "Yes you are buying the DSi because it sounds 100 times better than that toy you have now...so trade in your DS for the $70 off the ticket price, pay the $100 and enjoy it"

e5kimo · Post by **e5kimo** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:39 pm

does anyone know where to get this?

it released on the 19th of september from what i read but no retailer seems to stock it (at least not in switzerland. they cant even order it).

if you know any reliable retailers online please advise. the developer (AQ interactive) only has a japanese website.

i really want this.