Korg Legacy plugins available separately now

That's great news! I have an older Korg Legacy set, including the Poly 6, Wavestation and MS-20.

The main reason I bought it was for the Poly 6, because that was the 2nd synth I ever owned. I think they did a great job on these plug ins, they are very similar to the hardware version of years gone by. Good to know you can buy some separately now, I'll have to go take a look.

Thanks for the heads up Jeff!

Thanks Jeff

I remember my friend picked up a new M1 a just after its release for around £1500 IIRC and we just marvelled at it for weeks afterward.

An M1 and WS for $50 each now that is a no brainer.

Being as these were digital workstations of the time I would imagine the VSTi's are pretty faithful if not identical clones.

I wonder if there's a good editor/librarian out there for them these days as they (particularly the M1) used to take a fair bit of button pushing to get past the presets.

The Plugins are very faithful recreations. One review put the Wavestation ahead in sound to the actual machine. Not sure about that, but it does sound very good. One thing too is that they have extended the functions in some cases. The M1 plugin is more sophisticated and complex than the actual M1. It is the best M1 they have made. Also you get every PCM sound that came out for it so you end up with quite a large sound library that is extensive and great sounding in any situation.

I have restored an old M1 I found here at work and it is great and still sounds excellent. If you switch off a lot of the 80's effects and start applying more modern effects, it takes on a whole new sound. I like the action as well and use it as my mother controller. They put some decent lead weights in their actions at the time and it feels good to play. Better than the other controller I have which is an M Audio Axiom 61.

Editing the plugins Jonbouy is also pretty OK too. Because the plugins are laid out like an editor anyway and you can get into the parameters easily and they are often represented visually. Envelopes etc... I must admit I prefer having the Wavesation plugin and using it as an editor, it is quite a bit more deep than the M1. I have got pretty effecient at actually editing M1 sounds on the machine. There are not too many layers to the menus. But as you say for $100 those two machines are a very worthwhile addition to any composers toolkit.

Thanks for the info Jeff Evans.

Got the M1, need payday to come around for the Wavestation.

Ex-M1 owner here...it sounds very very good indeed. Very familiar, very happy.

sb

the neat thing about the wavestation VST is the "motion" wave patches sync to Midi clock and create some interesting rhythms,  plus you can assign a CC to the vector joystick

Jeff Evans


I have just purchased the Korg Wavestaion plugin form KorgUserNet.

It used to be bundled with the M1 and cost a lot more. But they have now seen the light and are allowing you to purchase various Korg plugin synths all separately for only $49 each!

I used to own the Wavestation and sold it and I was sad to see it go but at last I have got it back. It does sound amazing and you get all the patches that came out for it so there are hundreds of patches to be had. The plugin sounds very very nice indeed and is no way inferior to the real instrument. Not a real big CPU hog either, very effecient. It has a lovely warm and fat sound as well as very digital and icy when it needs to be. But then I suppose all you Wavestation owners out there will know what I am talking about.

The wave sequences are great too and quite inspiring.

I jumped on the bundle for $200 when right it first came out.  Having (a long time ago) purchased a couple of M3Rs and a bunch of sound cards for a total sum probably approaching $2500, it seemed too cheap to pass up.  Apart from the USB dongle hogging a USB port (do they still do it that way?), I still think it wasn't a bad deal at all.  At $50 per, it's close to no-brainer territory, especially if they've gotten rid of that %$&*-ing dongle requirement.

Yes, no more dongle, and you can also get the whole sheeebang (5 synths + multi-effect) for $200... so if you're like me, and you only really wanted the M1 and WS, are already pretty well covered in the polysix/monopoly/MS-20 dept., but just can't seem to pass up all plugs at $33 each instead of "just two" at $50 each, then you'll understand my sickness.