rob aylestone
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After my disaster with the Behringer Wave, I took a chance on a Korg Kross 2 - which seemed to be a new version similar to my old Triton LE. I liked this, but the combo sounds and the drums didn't quite work for me. The drum patterns were rarely quite right for me and the sound was bit sort of dull. So on the Kross, I wasn't intending using the drums at all, just the sounds - and these from YouTube videos seemed more usable out of the presets - which the Wave was not. The presets were all just a bit boring.
I put it in the studio and was amazed at the sound - big, sort of sums it up. I discovered though that the interface I have on the editing computer, which is great on mics and line level things did a very poor job. Distortion and a rough sound - not at all what I was hearing. Oddly, the LEDs on the interface come on green and flicker and then change to yellow, going red when it crosses the line. Plenty of headroom, no red lights and yet, a rough sound. I plugged into my older Presonus firepod, that feeds audio to the Blackmagic switcher - and fired up Cubase on the old iMac I use for the video system. Perfect sound - just weird that the perfectly good interface doesn't work well on the Korg.
In this video, I just picked some of the combos and pressed the drum and arp buttons and then played something that the rhythm suggested. A few well known songs, and then a re-arrangement of another, plus a load of things that just popped into my head. Youtube claimed one, on a shared basis which is fine. Interesting, as the rhythm is not quite the same.
What really impressed me is the bass end, Bass guitars, low synths and the kick drums sound amazingly good in the studio. Not sure how friendly Youtube is to it, but most drum sounds I get from my VSTi drums are not this clean and clear.
I'd love to hear comments - some of the sounds are OK, but lots are pretty impressive, without any editing. These are the stock sounds and stock patterns - no tweaking at all.
I put it in the studio and was amazed at the sound - big, sort of sums it up. I discovered though that the interface I have on the editing computer, which is great on mics and line level things did a very poor job. Distortion and a rough sound - not at all what I was hearing. Oddly, the LEDs on the interface come on green and flicker and then change to yellow, going red when it crosses the line. Plenty of headroom, no red lights and yet, a rough sound. I plugged into my older Presonus firepod, that feeds audio to the Blackmagic switcher - and fired up Cubase on the old iMac I use for the video system. Perfect sound - just weird that the perfectly good interface doesn't work well on the Korg.
In this video, I just picked some of the combos and pressed the drum and arp buttons and then played something that the rhythm suggested. A few well known songs, and then a re-arrangement of another, plus a load of things that just popped into my head. Youtube claimed one, on a shared basis which is fine. Interesting, as the rhythm is not quite the same.
What really impressed me is the bass end, Bass guitars, low synths and the kick drums sound amazingly good in the studio. Not sure how friendly Youtube is to it, but most drum sounds I get from my VSTi drums are not this clean and clear.
I'd love to hear comments - some of the sounds are OK, but lots are pretty impressive, without any editing. These are the stock sounds and stock patterns - no tweaking at all.
