Did anyone handson Korg M3 @ Citymusic??
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Cheez
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I was in TST Tom Lee yesterday. Finally had the opportunity to try the M3. Didn't have too much time with my son hanging around me. Anyway, this time round, they didn't have most of their keyboards hooked up to speakers. The digital pianos didn't need external speakers to try out. The only one hooked up is, fortunately, the M3. The Oasys was not hooked up - so I can't try the sound, although I can turn it on. And goodness - it takes more than 1 minute to boot up the Oasys!
My first impression of the M3 - it's a smaller version of the Oasys (the Oasys was right beside the M3).
Keys - touch is not too bad for unweighted. I'm been spoiled by my A70 unweighted touch - which has a slight rebound feeling to it. I've not felt anything like that since. But the M3's touch is OK. Range is OK for the purpose of the M3 - electronic music.
Touch screen - unfortunately it is not tactile (similar for the Oasys, which I also found out). You can trigger spots on the screen, but you cannot move the virtual sliders on the screen. I can't recall whether the Trinity could do that. But it will be nice if Korg makes it tactile. Otherwise, the screen is bright and layout is easy to access. Touch response on the screen is also good and fairly accurate with my fingernail.
Sounds - what can I say. It's Korg sound with various engines (like Karma) built into it. I need more time to explore the programming. The Combi sounds are nice - if you like electronic music.
Knobs and sliders and stuffs. Good to have many sliders to control cut-off etc live. Nice trigger pads which are pretty responsive. Can assign specific chords to each pad easily by just pressing the copy button. The buttons are slightly plastic to touch, but OK. The Oasys buttons feel like Porsche; the M3 buttons feel like Toyota. The 2 key switch buttons above the ribbon controller was one of my focus when I tried it. Noticed that the Oasys had that as well. Unfortunately, most of the patches I tried did not use the swtiches to the full capacity. Most patches uses them as transposing an octave higher or lower, or an alternative patch sound; instead of different articulations. The samples/patch is only as good as the raw material recorded, as I've said before. This is absolutely true here - they have the switches but didn't quite do it service. I thought the hardware/software sampling is narrowed, but after trying the swtiches, I think the gap is still too wide to bridge. Software key-swtiches beats it anytime.
Not enough time to play around with it. But I did try the Modus extensively - which I'll post in the appropriate thread.
My first impression of the M3 - it's a smaller version of the Oasys (the Oasys was right beside the M3).
Keys - touch is not too bad for unweighted. I'm been spoiled by my A70 unweighted touch - which has a slight rebound feeling to it. I've not felt anything like that since. But the M3's touch is OK. Range is OK for the purpose of the M3 - electronic music.
Touch screen - unfortunately it is not tactile (similar for the Oasys, which I also found out). You can trigger spots on the screen, but you cannot move the virtual sliders on the screen. I can't recall whether the Trinity could do that. But it will be nice if Korg makes it tactile. Otherwise, the screen is bright and layout is easy to access. Touch response on the screen is also good and fairly accurate with my fingernail.
Sounds - what can I say. It's Korg sound with various engines (like Karma) built into it. I need more time to explore the programming. The Combi sounds are nice - if you like electronic music.
Knobs and sliders and stuffs. Good to have many sliders to control cut-off etc live. Nice trigger pads which are pretty responsive. Can assign specific chords to each pad easily by just pressing the copy button. The buttons are slightly plastic to touch, but OK. The Oasys buttons feel like Porsche; the M3 buttons feel like Toyota. The 2 key switch buttons above the ribbon controller was one of my focus when I tried it. Noticed that the Oasys had that as well. Unfortunately, most of the patches I tried did not use the swtiches to the full capacity. Most patches uses them as transposing an octave higher or lower, or an alternative patch sound; instead of different articulations. The samples/patch is only as good as the raw material recorded, as I've said before. This is absolutely true here - they have the switches but didn't quite do it service. I thought the hardware/software sampling is narrowed, but after trying the swtiches, I think the gap is still too wide to bridge. Software key-swtiches beats it anytime.
Not enough time to play around with it. But I did try the Modus extensively - which I'll post in the appropriate thread.
woohoo.
SilverBeast
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Honestly, I've never been a fan of the M3 mainly coz of its looks. But after seeing how aesthetically pleasing it can be when paired with the radias m, I feel tempted...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAk8xcga7o
Has anyone already done that?
Yes, there may be the radias expansion board for the M3 or even less costly softsynths around, but I'm just a switch-on-and-play person and it somehow never feels the same without those original knobs. That was why I never expanded my Trinity with the Prophecy board.
Save, save, save and see how come end of the year! :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAk8xcga7o
Has anyone already done that?
Yes, there may be the radias expansion board for the M3 or even less costly softsynths around, but I'm just a switch-on-and-play person and it somehow never feels the same without those original knobs. That was why I never expanded my Trinity with the Prophecy board.
Save, save, save and see how come end of the year! :lol:
SoNiCbRaT
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Oh well, the image source reads:
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc168/florianlux/M3Radias.jpg
Anyway, check out the other shot on florianlux photobucket
Florianlux is Thai... but thanks for sharing digihub00...
check it out!
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc168/florianlux/M3Radias.jpg
Anyway, check out the other shot on florianlux photobucket
Florianlux is Thai... but thanks for sharing digihub00...
check it out!
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