Korg Triton - The Unofficial Access Virus & Virus TI Forum

Juho L · #1 13.11.2003, 11:19 PM

Does someone has it? Is it worth getting? I'm not able to test it myself so I'd like to hear your comments.

Aurora · #2 14.11.2003, 08:23 AM

i owned a triton for over 2 years..sold it to buy a Karma..

It's a great workstation.. Very polished sounds..excellent at both realistic and analogue.. Pianos are week in my opinion..

with the addition of a moss board, it's like having a Korg Z1 on steroids

Pretty much an all in one solution, great touch screen, super sequencer, very good sampler (make sure you upgrade to atleast os2.5)..

I used it mainly as main controller and the keyboard action is great..

Juho L · #3 14.11.2003, 09:49 AM

Hmm... The other one I was thinking is Roland Fantom-S. That would also be not-so-bad solution. I think Fantom has bigger ROM sound memory.

Aurora · #4 14.11.2003, 09:52 AM

yeah.. i agree they are pretty much head to head..

it would come down to your own preference really.. roland v korg..

I dont think the phantom has touch screen though if that is a factor

Juho L · #5 14.11.2003, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Aurora

I dont think the phantom has touch screen though if that is a factor

Touch screen is just a bonus feature. I base my decision on the sounds. At least I think Fantom sounds better, but then again it's hard to say without testing one. Local music store has only Triton LE so no change to test Triton and Fantom.

In addition all the sound demos I've found on Triton and Fantom are flat and boring except one Fantom clip with piano. At least piano is great on Fantom.

Juho L · #6 14.11.2003, 10:16 AM

Just thinking that does Triton have any kind of ethnic instruments on the ROM?

Aurora · #7 14.11.2003, 10:21 AM

yeah it does..

to be honest though i couldn't comment on them as it isn't my genre..

Juho L · #8 14.11.2003, 10:29 AM

I'll be mostly using piano, flute, hammond, rhodes, clavinet, bass and some electric drums. So those are the important sounds. The rest of the sounds are used not-so-often.

Damn. I'm in the same situation as I were when buying a VA. No where to test them and just have to rely on sound samples and other people's comments.

My friend got Motif (got it for a borrow from music store until the ES arrives) yesterday and I think that sounded quite good so the ES will be quite a monster.

Juho L · #9 14.11.2003, 02:53 PM

I decided to get Fantom-S. Just have to fight the price down from inhuman levels. It's quite nice that selling my Virus kB I'll get Fantom-S and Nord Modular with one or two hundred euros extra investment.

Tomer=Trance · #10 14.11.2003, 06:04 PM

that will be a realy cool setup
for a moment there i worried you wont work with any va'