The Korg M1 The Popular Workstation






by Thomas Penske


The Korg M1 is the best musical synthesizer in the industry. It has been used by most of the famous musicians to produce their music. It is liked my many people in the music industry because it offers a lot of advantages compared to others. It has many features that help the producer make quality beats. Furthermore, it has a good interface which is easy to use.

The engine of this synthesizer is very good in that consists of two or even one oscillator per group. It thus had sixteen note polyphony in total. When using double oscillator systems, it reduces to eight note unit.

It is able to amplify sound through the use of a digital amplifier. The sound is transferred into the amp through a series of filters.

The Korg unit has sampled music and sounds that are stored in the memory of the unit. It contains of an internal memory of 4 megabytes which were used to store the sounds. Most of them are even still in use up to today. It incorporated two presets in it sampling method. All this meant that the filter needed to have been made in a way that it offered no resonance.

Combi, as it was popularly known was a combination of several programs or patches that could play simultaneously. These were played at several velocity areas or even keys. All this was made possible by the M1 unit. Very complicated sounds could thus be played through the keyboard and the MIDI, since the unit allowed.

The ability to edit music entirely by just using the machine made the Korg M1 very popular among budding musicians and production houses. This meant that the editing of entire song was done is a quick way without having the artiste sing again. This was because it offered a lot of effects on its interface. These included flanger, reverb among others which could be used simultaneously.




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