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[splinters]

Bear with me on this one. I realise you can program the Krome to replicate just about any sound you like but, after downloading the free Triton soundbank, i got to thinking about this.
The free M50 classics pack just seem to tweak the existing sound so it was like my Krome but someone had tweaked the effects and eq etc.
The Triton sounds genuinely felt like i was played an 'old' korg synth.

So, given the sound generation system in the Krome, how many classic korg keyboards could be reproduced in the same way? Is it all the way back to the M1 or just the triton era onwards?

I personally loved the Korg DS8 and would love a set of sounds based on that synth. I am not talking about careful programming to get a sound like an oberheim or Moog etc. i mean how much of korg synthesis from previous synths is still in the Krome engine and therefore could possibly be released as soundsets in the future?

I guess there is a reason why Korg picked the Triton to pick sounds from?

[billbaker]

Splinters,

The "rom-pler" methodology started with M1 and T-series and progressed thru Trinity, 01-W, Triton, to the new M-series and at least one engine on the Kronos. There are any number of side trips and lesser synths like the x and i-series but the flagships were all rom-plers in a steadily growing progression.

So it would be possible to pretty closely match sounds for those older synths. Some things like 01-W's wave shaping feature are unique to that platform, but generally speaking any next generation flagship synth will at least be able to do what the previous one could and a bit more.

On the other hand you can't do what aint there. You absolutely can manipulate samples of waves from some of those classic synths but since the amp and filter sections are not the same... well let's just say that you might be able to replicate some sounds better than others. Whether you can do the on-stage live tweak will depend on how handy you are in assigning ASM controls (tho the basic 4 pre-assigned are among the all time most often used).

Bottom line? You could, with only a slight stretch and a lot of creativity, say that you can do many classic non-rompler Korg synth sounds.


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