Got my KORG Karma today, and I have to say it is fantastic! Still has 1.0.6 or whatever on it but I guess I'll have to get my hands on some floppy disks.. That floppy drive is going to drive me nuts!



I have to say, the sound seems all over the place compared to the TR its supposed to be replacing. Is it possible KORG used different output limiters or such? Sounds a bit like there is an expander in the audio path. Or maybe i'm just not used to the keybed and velocity curve. Anyway it doesn't seem that different, can't wait to upgrade it to 2.0 though!
Not sure if the previous owner played around with the patches, C & D are still blank, but I was hoping to find for example the hardpulse bass and the joystick machine SE patch that is on my TR...
KARMA is a little daunting at first but exactly what I was hoping for! I could spend hours playing with this if only I didn't have other things to do like building my own synthesizer


Also hoping to get EXB-PCM05 at some point.
I'd say I look forward to sharing knowledge and discoveries and music with the KARMA (and in particular triggering my Radias rack unit), but it seems fairly quiet in this corner of the forum....
I'll be using this in the studio for interesting musical timbres and triggering exciting grooves with the drums and on my Radias, and also hopefully using it live when the new band gets off the ground!