| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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Saw the new Korg low-end synth today at lunch.
It's called the 707 and is FM, like the DS-8. Roughly the same
size as a Poly 800, uses an AC adapter (ugh). Velocity and aftertouch
4 octave keyboard, RAM card interface. This thing has art-deco
contours (the LCD is under a bubble !!???) and looks really weird....
like something from Star Trek.
List is around $800, Union in Worcester has it for $700.
The sales guy wasn't sure, but thinks it has splits and multi-timbral
operation like the DS-8.
Sounds like yer average FM box.....
Apparently Korg has no more analog machines.....who's next????
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| 1151.1 | down the tubes... | DSSDEV::HALLGRIMSSON | topiary figment | Sat Jan 16 1988 02:23 | 8 |
We seem to be seeing the loss of Korg as an engineering (as opposed
to packaging) company. I haven't tried one, but the glossy ads
for this thing don't promise anything over the DS-8, and it is probably
broken in the same way--no memory of the "performance edit" sliders.
Looks like a re-packaged DS-8. What a lose! I want one of the
old Korg massive modular systems.
Eirikur
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| 1151.2 | 707 is definitely touch sensitive. | MIDEVL::YERAZUNIS | How about a 40 watt plasma rifle? | Sun Jan 17 1988 17:10 | 13 |
I tried the 707 at EUWurlitzer in Boston. It suffered from
a keyboard that didn't quite seem full size (somewhere between ESQ
keys and DX100/CZ101 keys). I couldn't figure out how to get into
programming mode, except for one frame worth of OSC modulation.
But the keyboard is definitely velocity sensitive! I don't know
how much resolution it has, but it does sense velocity on some patches
(not on all). One of the stringlike patches makes it pretty obvious.
The factory patches were typical factory patches (i.e. uninspired,
unorganized, and in need of tweaking).
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| 1151.3 | Why Innovate When You can Repackage? | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | Wed Jan 20 1988 18:26 | 8 | |
re .1 - sounds ominous; this is more or less the way Sequential
Circuits went before they disappeared as a factor.
Better get a DDD-1 or DRM-1 real quick now and hope it don't ever
break.
len.
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