new korg key suggestion: KORG KOVER

stingray1059 · Post by **stingray1059** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:40 am

is it possible for korg to make a keys for coverbands?

in every keyboard forum i go to, there are many people asking on how to make the synth sound from van halen's jump.. some are asking for the sound of highway star or the final countdown.. and some are looking for patches for TOTO's sound.

so i think korg should make a keyboard with the sounds used from popular bands from 60's up to preset..

just like the korg kross.. there will be a extra dial , user can select from 60, 70 80 ,90s the present.. and under it are titles of popular songs from the beatles to justin bieber..

it will be very useful for beginners and for live gigs too.

Nemik · Post by **Nemik** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:20 pm

stingray1059 wrote:is it possible for korg to make a keys for coverbands?

in every keyboard forum i go to, there are many people asking on how to make the synth sound from van halen's jump.. some are asking for the sound of highway star or the final countdown.. and some are looking for patches for TOTO's sound.

so i think korg should make a keyboard with the sounds used from popular bands from 60's up to preset..

just like the korg kross.. there will be a extra dial , user can select from 60, 70 80 ,90s the present.. and under it are titles of popular songs from the beatles to justin bieber..

it will be very useful for beginners and for live gigs too.

Everything is possible,but... some people call copyrights or what I like personally better respect for artists.
Believe me if any popular band came forward to Korg corporation with offer share their sounds, beats ...etc, they be available to free download in next software update.
Korg or others doing whatever they can to best of the best instruments.
But,... image this: how much time and skills bands spending to make their own sounds, creating own songs, most of them doing this for living.
I think Korg provide us with great instruments, with open wide possibility to be improved by our-self.
I know many people buying Synthesizers or Arrangers after seeing or hearing others playing with hope they can do the same, but ... only good way to do is start practice and practice, not to get ready and pressing bottoms on live gigs.
Not worry about exactly sound or beat, however you play other artist song, you only performance cover and credit is coming to original band.

P.S. I didn't mean address personally this to anybody, is just my stament what I think about.

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:56 pm

"Pressing bottoms on live gigs".

Eee, those were the days!

stingray1059 · Post by **stingray1059** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:37 pm

you mean even the sounds or patch used in a song are copywrited?

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:51 pm

No but the song titles and names of the artists are. That's why these mock up names appear. I dunno, I'm not against the idea exactly, but wouldn't it be a suckfest if everybody sounded exactly the same? I'm already tired of the ubiquitous Nord Rhodes and organ, that'll only get worse if every cover band is playing the same songs with the same Korg Kover board/preset. I think this is probably something best left to sound designers selling custom collections. There are a bunch of great ones out there!

stingray1059 · Post by **stingray1059** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:51 am

SanderXpander wrote:No but the song titles and names of the artists are. That's why these mock up names appear. I dunno, I'm not against the idea exactly, but wouldn't it be a suckfest if everybody sounded exactly the same? I'm already tired of the ubiquitous Nord Rhodes and organ, that'll only get worse if every cover band is playing the same songs with the same Korg Kover board/preset. I think this is probably something best left to sound designers selling custom collections. There are a bunch of great ones out there!

i think there are already mock up names in some presets in korg kross like "apologized keys " "marooned " and "black eye please"..
so why not make lots of them..

of course you can make your own sounds too aside from KOVER presets.
plus a majority of korg owners are cover bands.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:38 am

There are just far too many sounds for any one manufacturer to cover. I recommend getting a trully powerful synth, like the Kronos, and finding a library of sounds, like the ones made by Burningbusch over on the Kronos pages.

I think that part of the problem would be that how can anybody know what kind of sounds the cusomer wants on the synthesizer? What style of music are they going to play?
I'm a prog rock/hard rock guy so a lot of pop sounds and even the old new wave sounds don't wokr for me. Mainly because I just don't like them and/or they simply just don't fit into the styles of music that I do.
I could see Korg having a lot of difficulty trying to satisfy everybody.

Just my opinion but I think it counts.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:02 am

I play in a coverband and I never use sounds that are as much similar to the original.

If there would be a keyboard that would contain all these 80's sounds, every band would sound the same.

But I understand it would be easy for coverbands doing it for a living and don't want to spend time on recreating their sound or finding a good alternative sound.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:35 am

michelkeijzers wrote:don't want to spend time on recreating their sound or finding a good alternative sound.

IMO that is the very problem with that scene.
You can't emulate the sound of an artist if you are just going to play it like any other sound.

Then again, I really prefer 'tribute' acts to 'cover' bands.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:23 am

I don't think tribute vs cover has anything to do with it. I'm not lazy in designing my sounds, I take lots of time to get a good one, but that doesn't mean it's always exactly the one that's on the record. Sometimes I find/do something that I think works better in our band, or on the synth I'm bringing.

I really couldn't stand being in a tribute band though, having to play the exact parts someone else thought up, with someone else's exactly copied sound would leave me feeling completely useless as a musician.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:04 am

I'm with you on that one, Sander. I was in a band that wanted to become a tribute act. I felt trapped. Although I highly respect the ones that do the tribute exactly, it's not for me. I need to throw my own self into it nod hate to repeat myself. Even on songs that I've recorded I rarely play it exactly the same way. I've always looked at recording and performing to be 2 totally different animals.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:35 pm

I just don't see the point of live music making if interaction between the musicians is not encouraged. Of course there are degrees of this, I'm not a huge jazz fan either. It just seems there would be exceptionally little space for this in a tribute project. But I may have the wrong idea about it.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:53 pm

I guess for me it's the thing about the consistency, with a tribute act. If they really love the artist then they tend to do it well.

If I cover a song I usually do try to make it my own or to capture the sound right on, but get the essence of the performance whilst still interacting with it in my own way. To be honest it rarely happens anyway but that's what I aim for if I do.
You always know when you see something live it's different to how it's recorded, so there's no 'definitive version'.

So many though will just pick the closest sound and play the same 'right' notes for every different song as if they were the same. They don't really get 'into' it in the same way. Mind, I've seen tribute acts with the same problem.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:53 am

I would personally prefer to see an original artist I didn't know yet to a tribute band for an act I know and love. But it takes all kinds to make the world go round

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:49 pm

SanderXpander wrote:I would personally prefer to see an original artist I didn't know yet to a tribute band for an act I know and love.

That too

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