Korg Collection (V2.0 released, GUI update!)
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- KVRian
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- 558 posts since 8 Jun, 2019
Hey all,
The Korg collection is currently on sale and I'm wondering if it is still worth it. I'm also interested in the Arturia V collection but I'm waiting for Black Friday with that one. I'm mostly making pop/rock, but I use synths quite a lot so I wonder if I should get both or if one is simply better than the other
Looking for input, thanks
The Korg collection is currently on sale and I'm wondering if it is still worth it. I'm also interested in the Arturia V collection but I'm waiting for Black Friday with that one. I'm mostly making pop/rock, but I use synths quite a lot so I wonder if I should get both or if one is simply better than the other
Looking for input, thanks
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- KVRAF
- 23101 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
It's still worth it, unless you have a HiDPI display, then maybe think about it, because UIs are gonna be tiny (or blurry, if rescaled).
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- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
They are not that small.
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- KVRAF
- 35163 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
I cant think of any modern VSTs that are so small. I cant read the text on most of them. Even the most recent one (KARP) is too small imho.
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- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
I have'nt really used KC in a long time so you might be right. I have to check for myself.thecontrolcentre wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:56 pmI cant think of any modern VSTs that are so small. I cant read the text on most of them. Even the most recent one (KARP) is too small imho.
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- KVRAF
- 2677 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
They are pretty small on even my not hi dpi monitor. At the moment they are usable but anything smaller would not be. Especially Wavestation and MDE-X.
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- KVRAF
- 11001 posts since 15 Apr, 2019 from Nowhere
They're hard to read (but not impossible) on a 15" MacBook Pro.
Korg really needs to do some work on the UIs. The plugins themselves are really good though.
Korg really needs to do some work on the UIs. The plugins themselves are really good though.
- KVRAF
- 5943 posts since 8 Jul, 2009
I have it. The GUI is definitely small on my 30" regular monitor. It makes them hard to use. But they sound pretty good. I've owned many of the original hardware and I think the collection is a good ITB substitute. I have to zoom in to use them however.
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- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
Yes you are right. They are indeed small.robotmonkey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:20 pmThey are pretty small on even my not hi dpi monitor. At the moment they are usable but anything smaller would not be. Especially Wavestation and MDE-X.
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- KVRian
- 1368 posts since 9 Jan, 2018
They sound great. I don't use MDE-X (largely because of the graphics issue), but have little trouble with the PolySix and MS-20: I generally know the layout of the knobs on the originals, and if you hover your mouse over any one of them, a popup reveals what they are--the popups are a ton more legible. Additionally, if you click on the Edit button, you get a slightly better (larger) view (provided you don't need the keyboard visible).
Regardless, Korg promised updated interfaces back in 2016 on a press release, so either they have too few folks on their end available to work on it, or the source code was far more in need of updates than they expected. I'd rather they'd have said nothing and not gotten our hopes up.
Thankfully, they're all 64-bit now.
Regardless, Korg promised updated interfaces back in 2016 on a press release, so either they have too few folks on their end available to work on it, or the source code was far more in need of updates than they expected. I'd rather they'd have said nothing and not gotten our hopes up.
Thankfully, they're all 64-bit now.
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- KVRAF
- 3980 posts since 20 Feb, 2004
I'm gonna voice a somewhat less enthusiastic opinion than some here: most of these plugins are over a decade old, and graphics issues aside, they do show their age sonically (at least the strictly analog emulations PolySix and MS-20). They don't sound _bad_, but I never really even think about using them anymore.
The Odyssey emulation however has a top-notch sound.
The Odyssey emulation however has a top-notch sound.
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- KVRian
- 1000 posts since 25 Feb, 2008 from Sydney, Australia
I use the WS and M1, and they are pretty small on my 1080 monitor, but I can read them clearly.
However, one thing I absolutely detest is an oversized, huge gui, for example, Dexed.
I think I'm the only person on earth who likes the small gui thing
However, one thing I absolutely detest is an oversized, huge gui, for example, Dexed.
I think I'm the only person on earth who likes the small gui thing
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- 11001 posts since 15 Apr, 2019 from Nowhere
- KVRAF
- 4534 posts since 17 Jun, 2013 from very close to Paris, France
Exact. All the standalone applications (the .exe) of the Korg Collection are 32-bit, not 64-bit.
I have just checked with the excellent (and free) tool Winitor PeStudio.
Only Odyssey is 64-bit (and exclusively 64-bit).
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