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The Korg M1 The Popular Workstation

By Thomas Penske


One of the most remembered music synthesizers in this world today is the Korg M1. It was produced in the late 1970 but has become the most loved music producing unit; it is preferred by most musicians as compared to others such as Yamaha. It is still the most sold music workstation up to today. The sales during the early years enable Korg Corporation to acquire part of Yamaha.

Low pass filters were mainly used to transfer and regulate the sound that passes into the amplifier. The amplifier of course is responsible for increasing the gain in the voltage produced by the note thus will become loud enough.

It is able to amplify sound through the use of a digital amplifier. The sound is transferred into the amp through a series of filters.

It made use of a component called compressed acoustic piano. This in the years later became very popular and was mostly used by dance producers and even on records. The system came with two presets namely piano16 and organ2. All these were popular during early nineties because they were used to produce music.

Combi, as it was popularly known was a combination of several programs or patches that could play simultaneously. These were played at several velocity areas or even keys. All this was made possible by the M1 unit. Very complicated sounds could thus be played through the keyboard and the MIDI, since the unit allowed.

The Korg M1 had one of the best sequencers. It gave the authorization for full track editing, this made it very possible to produce very high quality songs by only using the machine. It also offered two effects which were independent of each other, these included the flanger, delay and even the chorus. The earlier systems had not been able to do this.




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