Reasons Why Korg M1 Was The Preferred Music Workstation

By Thomas Penske


One of the worlds best and most acknowledged music workstation is the Korg M1. It is one of the best because it enables musicians and especially music producers to make the perfect professional arrangement. It is one of the most bought digital synthesizers due to the advantages it offers over the other of the competitors.

This unit has a maximum of sixteen polyphony which when it is made into a double oscillator, it reduces to half of that (eight). The interaction between the two oscillators does not exist thus it had to run two of them in a parallel system.

The digital sound is fed into a digital amplifier through a low pass filter. The controllers mainly incorporated the use of keyboard tracking and envelopes.

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.

It also offered the producers and musician the ability to combine many patches (mostly up to eight). They were made to play at the same time to produce an arrangement called combi. This was good for the producers and musicians generally because it enabled them to assemble very complex sounds. They could then be played by using the keyboard and even MIDI.

Though the Korg M1 is not as good as it were by today's standards, it boated many advantage. One of it was that during production of songs, one was able to edit the whole track by just using the machine. This worked well for producers because then they were able to produce good music easily and faster. Many other effects were also included.




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