Korg Radias

[Hollowcell]

I just watched the video over at SonicState.

It doesn't sound half bad at all.

I'm looking forward to some more detailed specs though.

[techno_7]

I'm not impressed... Seems too "stock"

[Merlot]

Reminds me of a MS2000 rehashed.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Sounds like a 24 note version of the MS2000

Sorry HC...but to me it sounds totally boring and uninpsiring. It sounds very 'Triton' exapnsion board(y) to me. Of course....im not one to judge a synth on the premise of its presets.......but plz....can someone just stick an analog filter on there.....that is the future of VA - Digital control of *everything* except the FILTER

DS

[Khazul]

I think its a huge improvement on the triton series cheese machines.

Expensive for a rack machine tho - $1899 - whats the US RRP for NL3 rack and TI desktop for comparison?

One interesting observation - price diff between keyboard and rack verion is only $100 - lol I guess that means korg are still using their utterly horrible $5 nasty keybeds still

It does look cool - sounds very flexible. I thought the mp3 demos sounded quite good. The sound doesnt grab me the way the TI does of course, but I thought it was actually very good for a modern Korg synth.

Maybe if the street price in the UK is half decent - might be worth a look, but I suspect it may end up being the most expensive rack unit given how high prices often end up in the UK for far east gear - I would guess we will see them for around ?1350+, maybe even ?1500+ to start with.

Not exactly a "rush out and buy" price

[Tomer=Trance]

to me the vocoder sounded the only thing worthwhile there
i also support the assumption that this is an upgraded ms2000 engine.

[Khazul]

One of the Korg reps replied to the harmony forums to say it isnt. (Cant find the post at the mo - HC-KSS is being horribly slow atm) They basically re-used the user interface design because they had good feedback on it, but the resulting synth is completly new hardware abd software.

I agree - seeing the two machines side by side, it looks like the radias is the next iteration of the same - they are more similar than say virus C and virus TI.

I do like the way the keyboard version is designed, but sadly korg make such f****** unbeleiveably nasty keyboards - ffs you get better keyboards in toys'r'us

[Hollowcell]

Mmm, don't really agree that it's a rehashed MS2000....

Each Timbre provides two oscillators, which share the low-aliasing design of Korg?s flagship OASYS. They deliver modeled analog, formant and Korg?s classic DWGS waveforms, PCM playback, as well as ring modulation and sync. The voice architecture provides dual multimode filters; three envelopes; two LFOs; three modulation sequencers; six virtual patches (for freely connecting any of 11 modulation sources to any of 15 destinations); two-band EQ; Drive; 11 types of Wave Shaping; and Punch (which emphasizes the attack portion of the sound).

The PCM playback and formant sections specially interest me. But that depends on if you can load your own PCMs though.

In a way it reminds me of the Z1 if anything. Which aint bad at all.

[cortexxious]

I`d love one of these if the price wasn`t so retarded , is it really going to cost that much ?

I guess this is the replacement for the karma (which has now been dropped) .

A v-synth XT rack is cheaper than that .

I was expecting it to be around $1000-$1200 US

[Hollowcell]

Yeah the price is a bit over the top isn't it.

Well in my opinon (which doesn't seem to be the popular opinon judging by this thread) this is still one of the more interesting synths from this years Namm. I hope I see one around that I can have a play with soon.