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C'mon Korg where's the flash ram for M3 or M4 or what eer you're going to call it ..Are you going to let Yamaha B-slap you ?.

ozy wrote:

Synthoid wrote:Actually, it's a BIG ribbon controller!

yep.

Korg bought Haken Audio overnight, and that thing is an embedded Continuum.

Amazing feature for playing the steel guitar glissandos on "The Godfather Theme" at Sicilian weddings. Or for bedroom renditions of Dream Theater solos ["check my clips on youtube!"].

Actually, when I saw a video of the Monotron and that little glissando keyboard I thought it would be a great idea to have a controller with a glissando strip above the keybed.
It gives a much more intuitive and accurate control over glissandi and microtonal variations.
So, if anyone from KORG is reading this thread, I hope this idea will make into a future product.

Jan1 wrote:it would be a great idea to have a controller with a glissando strip above the keybed. It gives a much more intuitive and accurate control over glissandi and microtonal variations.So, if anyone from KORG is reading this thread, I hope this idea will make into a future product.

They could call it the

ribbon controller for the Kurg M4-K workstation

If they work really hard, it could be ready for Winter NAMM 2010...

lunaluna wrote:C'mon Korg where's the flash ram for M3 or M4 or what eer you're going to call it ..Are you going to let Yamaha B-slap you ?.

and this could come even sooner: maybe, just in time before I buy a pc3-k.

Oh, oops!

lunaluna wrote:C'mon Korg where's the flash ram for M3 or M4 or what eer you're going to call it ..Are you going to let Yamaha B-slap you ?.

No thank you.
30 minutes to load 1GB of data into the Chip.... Ouch.

It's too slow for anyone who works with Samples, Time Stretch, Truncate, Resampling and so on....
Streaming is the way to go.

Regards
Sharp.

Sharp wrote:

lunaluna wrote:C'mon Korg where's the flash ram for M3 or M4 or what eer you're going to call it ..Are you going to let Yamaha B-slap you ?.

No thank you.
30 minutes to load 1GB of data into the Chip.... Ouch.

It's too slow for anyone who works with Samples, Time Stretch, Truncate, Resampling and so on....
Streaming is the way to go.

Regards
Sharp.

***Yeah but it's only one time you load them..once loaded you don't have to worry about loading those samples anymore every time you power up a' la Motif XF ....

And what about all the other functions of a Sampler ?

Your only looking at this from the point of view of you load a sound and that it's no longer required to load that sound ever again. Sort of like, it's worth the half and hour wait to load the 1GB if you never have to load anything else ever again.

That's a terrible idea because you are throwing away all the other functions of Sampler because it has become far too slow to work with. The Sampler function is a super creative tool and it can allows you to achieve some mighty creative results with your songs.

Regards
Sharp.

Sharp wrote:And what about all the other functions of a Sampler ?

Your only looking at this from the point of view of you load a sound and that it's no longer required to load that sound ever again. Sort of like, it's worth the half and hour wait to load the 1GB if you never have to load anything else ever again.

That's a terrible idea because you are throwing away all the other functions of Sampler because it has become far too slow to work with. The Sampler function is a super creative tool and it can allows you to achieve some mighty creative results with your songs.

Regards
Sharp.

Yeah I see your point and it's a good point but in my situation,and I'm sure their's many out there in the same situation , I load around 35 multi samples that I use a lot and I having to be waiting while they load each and everytime I power up gets annoying after a while and if the power goes out in the middle of a set ,, fuggedaboutit ! ...

It still borders on being utterly pointless no matter what way you look at this.

Lets take your very specific use which is to only have the sounds you loaded available when you turn on the Keyboard.

Put 1GB on that chip and you can add WELL... over 1 minute to your bootup times.

So what you might say, it's only 1 additional minute. Well.... rather than using expensive Flash Rom they could have used dirt cheap ram and just given the keyboard the ability to Auto Load the samples on bootup like the KORG Pa2X does. Problem solved.

This way you get the same benefits of having all the data available on bootup, but you don't have any down side to the system being so freaking slow that it's unusable as a sampler.

Just my 2 cents when looking at this logically.

Regards
Sharp.

Sharp wrote:just given the keyboard the ability to Auto Load the samples on bootup

amen!



Opening the "autoload" file configuration will take... what: 13 minutes of any Korg summer intern?

You turn the m3 on, go for a coffee or a leak, you get back and everything is loaded. Once a day.

And what will Korg lose in the process? Control over their secret autoloading algorythms? Come on...

Let's pray during the countdown to NAMM.

Flash is not necessary. There's NO alibi.

They still can do it in 10 days even if they hadn't thought of it [in spite of having been told 10000 times here]

I hope that improved the sound quality coming out of it and the quality of the sampling frequency comes out clean and clear as in Roland or Kurzweil or akai or ketron sd1

Sharp wrote:It still borders on being utterly pointless no matter what way you look at this.
Lets take your very specific use which is to only have the sounds you loaded available when you turn on the Keyboard.
Put 1GB on that chip and you can add WELL... over 1 minute to your bootup times.
So what you might say, it's only 1 additional minute. Well.... rather than using expensive Flash Rom they could have used dirt cheap ram and just given the keyboard the ability to Auto Load the samples on bootup like the KORG Pa2X does. Problem solved.

Agreed on all acounts. But, I gotta say - I loved it when I had a Triton Rack - just put EXB-PCM* cards inside, load a PCG file with sounds and off you go. The only keyboard that I let slide by that rule is the OASYS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKF6045Q3xg
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