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#286698 - 05/01/10 02:15 AM
Re: KORG PA2X Style on MS, Sound Comparison
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You are right, i agree with you again, it is a very simple style. This is only Apples to Apples comparison, honestly there is difference, i hear it right away at the first second...and also you are right again, Korg's styles can be tweaked, my own sound better then the factory. But keep in mind...what if we actually tweaked the Style on Goliath? I know for my own taste Korg would dissapear UNDERWATER many times in front of Goliath. Now, going back to DNC and GM as i said in the other post, GM wont translate as it is but i can turn only that track into a MIDI, bring it back to the same style on MediaStation, run it thru a better Guitar and Voila! As for DNC no talks at all...no need to translated...we can just get a 4-5 Gigs Strings or any sound from a Big Library with its own DNC and again Voila! Right? DNC Translated, i think its fair enough. Remember, my point on this is not exact as yours. Your point is how can it be easier and with no work, mine is how can i sound better then you (not litereally) meaning, i am after the quality, no matter of time and work (which we both know its almost the same or less then translating from Korg to Roland). The RH was there only for whatever reason, a better Piano i guess. Later on i will do a more complicated Style and i already know the result will be the same as this, same timig of work and result. Then after that i will do what gets me Horny...tweaking Korg's style but then tweaking it in Goliath too...YAY! If one only pays a lil attention to the Snare and Toms in the Goliath MP3.
[This message has been edited by Nedim (edited 05-01-2010).]
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#286699 - 05/01/10 02:38 AM
Re: KORG PA2X Style on MS, Sound Comparison
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Well, for me, as a full time gigging player (in addition to the studio work), I'm afraid that time spent translating and tweaking is EVERYTHING. Which is why, to be honest, I actually use very few translations. They are generally more bother, timewise, than they are worth. Sure, nice simple styles are a snap, but who wants to play nice simple styles? (I got plenty of those!) ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/biggrin.gif) The more attention and detail put into the style in the first place to leverage the technology of the original keyboard, the very thing that makes you WANT to translate it, is also the very thing that makes the translation so hard to do. Sure, strip out all the hard stuff, translation is easier. But what you end up with is a shadow of its' original glory. What would be a REAL test of the whole thing (and I know it's a lot to ask for) would be for you to pick perhaps the dozen absolute BEST, most groovy, jaw-droppingly fabulous styles in the PA800, with no regard to whether they are simple or not, and all of quite different sound. Some rock, some jazz, some modern alternative, whatever... Now translate them into MS styles using VSTi's, and don't rest until they sound BETTER than the originals. Then let us know how long it really took you. That would give us a 'real world' set of figures to estimate for ourselves what translating our favorite style libraries would take. You see, as I kind of keep pointing out to those that have actually had an MS for quite some while, but still don't feel confidant enough with their work to post any of it, for a working musician, it's no good that the MS COULD sound MUCH better than a closed arranger if it takes so long to actually get it there that you never get around to actually doing it. Some of them have had MS's for YEARS now, and STILL they won't post anything they are proud of, and those that do, well, let's just be charitable, and say better luck next time? ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/tongue.gif) The whole POINT of the MS is to use it live. A lot of us already GOT VSTi rigs to do home and studio work on. But the MS is supposed to be gigged. And, in that case, it has to be able to be set up fast enough that someone steadily gigging actually has enough time to do it! Sooner or later, to convince us skeptics, someone is going to HAVE to show us how fast it can all be done, and not just on the easy styles..! I wish I had enough time to be able to take my own sweet time getting it ready to gig. But unfortunately (or not!), I would rather be earning money playing, than NOT earning money programming...!
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#286700 - 05/01/10 02:53 AM
Re: KORG PA2X Style on MS, Sound Comparison
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You make your own points too and you are right but whats the fun in just playing without tweaking. I mean, everything takes time, one can have an MS for year and a half and gig on something else as most of us usally do till we get it ready, i guess then the time was worth it. Not necesarilly one has to sit down 6 hours a day to program an MS, do it once in a while.
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#286704 - 05/01/10 06:33 AM
Re: KORG PA2X Style on MS, Sound Comparison
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Originally posted by Diki: I get the impression that the open arranger mind is like the guy who is more concerned with building the car than driving it. ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/eek.gif) You might be almost correct there... But its more like this Building the car Driving the car Finetuning the car Driving the car Improving the car Driving the car Improving the car Driving the car Updating the car Driving the car... Open arranger people do drive, and maybe even a lot. But they also like to play with the mechanics of their toy car. But if you are dependant on your car for your work, constantly breking things down in your car to rebuild them might not be a good idea... You need atleast 2 cars to do this. As your first car should allways be fully operational. I myself belong to the people (>90% of arranger players do) that don't gig, but just play at home, and for us it doesn't really matter if a keyboard is not working for 2 days (and a lot of time invested) as long as it improves continually. But for for professional players and others dependent on their instruments, you really made a point there. Those people can't afford to play around to much with new feautures and need to have a working system every night... So either they need 2 open Mediastations or Dom needs to implement a backup system that lets you store the whole system including all VSt's ans setting on an immage on an external hard disk... When things go wrong, you could allways store back the image, which should work rather quick for a USB3 device even if there are 100's of GB's data. If Dom can implement this on MEdiastation, you might have helped to improve Mediastation and other open keyboards with your wise remark ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif) Thanks Diki for the constructive remarks ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif)
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#286706 - 05/02/10 01:13 AM
Re: KORG PA2X Style on MS, Sound Comparison
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Thing is, of the 95% of arranger not used for gigging, probably 95% of THOSE are used by people with insufficient technical skill to DO all the extensive tweaking, translating, setting up VSTi libraries, etc., etc. an open arranger NEEDS. Heck, a fairly high % get used by people who can barely PLAY, let alone know a damn thing about programming. Sorry, but I just don't buy it... Just because you have the TIME doesn't say a damn thing about whether you have the skill. For one reason or another, the VAST majority of arranger players don't have what it takes to use an open arranger. Thing is, as always, if one of the manufacterers took the time, got off his fat arse, whatever, and set the damn thing up so that at least OOTB it bettered the closed arranger, it would sell like hotcakes. But rather than provide TOTL sounds and styles, they are sold as 'kitcars' and you build it yourself. As I have been saying forever, 99.999% of people just want to BUY a car to drive around. They DON'T want to have to build it first. Just face the facts, guys. You are a TINY, tiny minority of arranger players, somehow thinking that your way of doing things is commoner than it is... You've acknowledged that gigging arranger users are in the minority. Now take the next step... ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/tongue.gif)
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