The obviously thing to do would be to re-enter PROG mode, and re-adjust the RELEASE TIME again to suit your needs. Then a couple of gigs down the line you decide that in actual fact, there is too much RELEASE TIME applied to the FRETLESS BASS patch. Lets assume for now you simply OVERWRITE it (ie to the same location). No problem.Īnd you decide you are quite happy with this EDIT and wish to SAVE it.
#KORG M1 PRESET PATCH#
If you edit a patch in PROG (lets say the RELEASE TIME of FRETLESS BASS ), you would increase the ‘ R’ parameter (using the ‘ A~H’ keypad under the display) to (say) ' +10’. Now, this is something I hope I can explain clearly:. I don’t remember Korgan ever being a factory preset so indeed you must have obtained it from elsewhere? From memory, all of the Organ presets were simple suffixed with a number ( Organ-1, Organ-2, etc). The M1 also had a very cool organ sound, “Korgan”, which I believe was a third party patch. It came out after the DX7II and D-50 so that’s probably around 1989 as you say. I think I bought mine in 1989, which was it’s second year, if I’m not mistaken. I never owned any cards myself but yes, you could acquire either more waveforms (which Korg refer to as MultiSounds) or 100 x patches (what Korg call **Prog’**s). I am going mostly from memory here, and I loved my M1 when I owned it. There were two ways to expand the system: one was a data card containing patches, while the other was a wave/sample card, which contained new waveforms, and possibly new patches which used these waveforms. In which case is the title ‘ AI Synthesis’ not a little misleading then? Yes, I can see how it falls into the ROMpler catagory. It relies mainly upon sampled waveforms, which are then subtractively processed and put through it’s built in effects unit. The M1 doesn’t really do a lot of synthesis. The M1 drum kit was particularly good at the time for a built-in synth drum kit, and I used that on just about everything, although for my live rig, I used a Roland S-330 sampler. The SY77 excelled at more organic sounds, especially strings and horns, while the M1 excelled in some other areas. I also bought a Yamaha SY77 at the same time, which had true synthesis, and subtractive waveform processing, as well.
But this synth is absent (although the POLY 6 is in there) and so I have put such a purchase on the back burner for the time being. I may have purchased this as part of a VST (legacy) package had it have contained the Korg POLY 61. There is of course the VST version which seems to be quite popular. In any case, I am not especially interested in purchasing one (unless it came up very cheap again, as they sometimes do). Recently, an M1 came up on eBay very cheap and located close by, but I narrowly missed out unfortunately.
And then I sold my M1 when I went to music school. So, my first question being (please), are there any current M1 owners out there willing to help and discuss certain aspects about the programing and synthesis side of the machine? I did own an M1 in the early 90’s for a couple of years or so, but at that point I was concentrating on other aspects of musicianship as opposed to being specifically into programing as such. I did post on the official Korg forum a few weeks back but received zero response! lol And I have gleaned a few small insights from other various forums but as yet, still no concrete answers. Anyway, rather than try and tag this onto a pre-existing discussion of old, or only partially related, I decided I would open a fresh topic here. All of the subject matters relating to Korg run right across the board (as one might expect of course).
The Korg M1 (hardware) does not seem to have it’s own dedicated section on this site (it’s an old synth I know and of course this is a more modern forum).