Had to remove...Thanx for listening I need the space.

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 09-21-2007).]

Great job, Donny. who needs to sing when you can play like that. the styles sound fantastic too. you made a choice with the PA800.

You and the board sound really good Donny. I liked the drums/bass. Thanks for taking the time to record and post.

Take care,

Chris

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Thanx Cassp.....

Singin' is the Cherry on the cake

I sing a few when I get a chance for sure ...I'm learning more about this wonderful instrument every day.

Donny, Nice distinctively Korg clean sounding voices & decent intros and main style patterns. Contrary to the SD1+ of which I don't recall hearing demos from you, the fact that you've posted something so soon after getting the PA800 is great cuz it tells us you're quickly feeling at home recording with it.

The ONE thing that's been so highly discussed and debated here, but absently missing in your demo are: "FILLS".

It sure would be nice to hear a demonstration on how fills sound when triggered:

1) within the SAME variation section
2) transitioning from one variation section to another.

I would especially appreciate hearing a simple combo swing pattern (drums, bass, piano) with triggered drum fills examples as outlined above.

Thanks for taking the time to share your excitement & growing experiences with your Korg PA800.

Scott

Thanx Chris for the listen....just wanted to bring out some Live Audio Demos hardly tweaked with factory STSD sounds for people who might be in doubt about the Pa800 by some of the posts here...

Stay well

Listen close to the songs 3:08, 3:26 there are some fills in the songs....as said these are Short demos & didnt want to make it longer then 10 minutes...
I will try to do more in time.

btw I'd love to hear some short T2 demos from you also now that you mastered it..



[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 09-20-2007).]

Sounds pretty darn good, Donny.

Thanks for the demo.

Ian

Thanx Ian.....

I now feel confident that I can get the Pa800 to sound exceelent to my taste in time alot has to be done while Im performing its the only way to truly be acurate in tweaking and setting levels....I somtimes carry a pad to write notes on stage to later at home make the nessassary refinements.

Hope to hear a few different S900 Demos from you also.

Donny, great job, you make the board sing without using your voice. Nice!

Thanks for the demos

Nice "live" sounds Donny and great variety

The Trumpets especially sound good

Regards - Keith (KFingers)

Steve, KFingers....

Apreciate the listen....The Pa800 just needs to be tamed....once you crack the combination to its Goodies
some KB's take longer then others....

more to come.



[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 09-20-2007).]

Donny,
Very nice. Sure sounds a zillion times better than one I demoed at Sam Ash. Of course, I couldn't get into all the tweaking in that environment. You done good.
Eddie

I must say, I did like the styles. Korg definitely has a different approach to style making than Yamaha does. They seem to use fewer instruments, but the instruments that are there are played a bit more complex.

But I don't think I could live with some of those voices. The acoustic bass has this weird clink sound whenever an A is sounded. Particularly apparent on the Dixieland style. And I've never heard a real trumpet player using a mute do that wah-wah-wah-wah effect as the note is held. And the flute! Sounded like the guy who made their flute samples managed to get a little air into the flute to creat the sound, but most of it missed. What an airy blowey tone!

Thanx Eddie your experience like many including myself in stores that have the original OS1.01 .....OS1.51 makes a BIG difference.....I still haven't had time to take each style and edit sound levels, efx etc .....but the Pa800 is a full "TOOLBOX" you just got to use the proper ones to build the house

Very nice, Donny. That was certainly a nice rundown of many of the meat and potatoes sounds in the PA800. Maybe another one demo-ing the more modern styles would be nice...

First things first... As a Triton owner, I can only say... this is the first Korg I could tolerate the main piano on! That's actually a pretty good one by any standards, and amazing by Korg's!

The drums, to me, are a mixed bag, punchier than yamaha, softer than Roland. Nice styles, more of a smaller ensemble of good musicians than Yamaha's 'lots of average ones' approach (apart from the guitars).

But the brass... Firstly, I'll fire any trumpet player with a vibrato THAT wide! (unless I'm doing mariachi!). I never heard a sax that got my juices flowing, I'm afraid to say. Nice t'bone, though.

But overall, I'd have to give a big thumbs up to the PA800, at the price point and form factor. A Huge improvement over the PA80, IMO.

How's the key action?

That tone works great in styles, but it is easy to "trigger" the fingerboard slap noise with velocity too.



Oh, I have ! A harmon mute with the center taken out, right Geaorge Kaye? Great effect!




I LOVE this breathy flute. It's a terrific example of having the mic right in front of the lips...as many flute players position themselves. When youy play a quiet instrument, you do what you can to be heard !

This was a great selection, I throughly enjoyed listening to it. Great playing, thanks.

Graham

this is really fine work and the sounds/styles are just beautiful. Makes me feel like starting to play again.
Thanks a bunch for sharing your new board with us.
Best regards,
Bebop

Well done Donny, that's come to prove, in the right hands, the pa-800 will sound awsome. The gentleman who pointed all bad opinions about this great board wasn't in one of his lucky days anyway, that's all.
keep up the good work. My Pa-800, which I ordered, is coming soon. Cheers.

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Donny ... nice job ... that board sounds good ...
thought the vocals could be a little more "up front" ... .....
t.

dbl post . sorry .....
t.

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Donny,

The PA800 sounds terrific, as do you You've done a great sell job for Korg. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to put my songs to some of those styles - wow.

Hi everyone just got home from a gig......thank you for all the posts I appreciate it.....what I recorded is just an out of box quick demo.....what ever sounds were in the STS I used ....I haven't even started to assign my own STS to styles I need time to go thru the many banks or have I used any conversions .......
Im trying to use as much factory as possible first then filter in the conversion styles as needed ...The Pas800 is a very worthy KB....ya just have to get deep into it.....I should also have the mp3 card Friday also.......more to come as I go along....

I hope many other players share their demos so that we may hear some other arrangers too..just do some small short snippets like i did.

l8tr