Triton only had 32MB of storage for all it's samples. Just listen to how it sounds and marvel that Korg could fit it all in 32MB of non-volatile memory. But even Korg's M1 had some sample-based sounds that were more than realistic enough to do the job. Trinity and Triton didn't necessarily sound any better or more realistic, they just had bigger wave ROMs with a greater variety of sounds and with each new iteration, they doubled the polyphony and added more features.Korg's Triton (and Roland's Fantom, and Yamaha's Motif line both from the same period) existed from a time when samples and the machines that played them back were starting to get good enough and the rom and ram they needed was starting to get cheap enough that they sounded pretty realistic while having just enough of a not quite realistic edge that they still sounded like an electronic instrument trying to sound like a realistic instrument
Yeah, but those workstations didn't have things like round-robin or different articulations, they were extremely basic compared to what we have access to today.For me that's a refreshing contrast over things like multi gigabyte sized Kontact libraries
But running a sample through a resonant filter is so much more rewarding, is it? I think that probably says more about your level of creativity than it does about the instruments. I could keep throwing sawtooth waves through a resonant filter for another 100 years and never get bored with it. That's because the sounds a synth makes aren't the point of it, the point of it is to make music and you can do that with anything if you've a mind to. When someone listens to your music, they aren't listening for which instruments you used, it's not important to anyone's enjoyment of the piece. I use Odyssey and ARP 2600 because they provide the absolute highest quality sound I have heard and that sound quality matters a lot more to me than anything else.For me the 2600 and Odyssey are interesting but just represent option numbers 132 &133 of ways to send a square and sawtooth wave through a Resonant Filter while that is interesting I got bored with doing that as a teenager in the 1980s, and if I want that I have Diva and a ton of other vintage Analog Emulations that I got in bundles including Korg's bundles
Statistics: Posted by BONES — Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:26 am