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iM1 - 50% off during May
The app and IAP's are all 50% off for May....M1 is 30 years old this month...
M1 for Korg Collection also 50% off...
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If their GUI´s (on desktop) wouldn´t be also 30 years old i would buy that maybe
Cool, are either of the IAP card packs worth getting?
I think so. It's plenty more extra samples, not just 'presets' based on the original M1 rom samples.
Many classic sounds to be found on the T1 rom cards which are part of the IAPs.
Unless you loved and need the sound of the late 90s in your every day life don't get this synth and stay far away from the IAPS. On the other hand if you were planning on including the distinctly digital sound of a "slap bass" or a "brass section" and some "orch
hits" in your "performances" this synth will give you what you were looking for in abundance. Slightly less cheesy sounding than the Wavestation. Whether that's better or worse is entirely subjective to the listener.
I've had the app for over a year and I haven't grasped the UI of the main app a whit. The reverb and delay effects builtin are similarly awful. But it's still one of my favourite synths I've ever owned.
If you like the content in this video iM1 is for you
As much as I LOVE the early/mid 80's synths, the late 80's and 90's synths are another story entirely. I bought this day one because of the sale and as soon as I played it I realized that I hated all the sounds.
So... yeah - haven't used this much. But I hold out hope that one day, iM1 will have exactly the right thing I'm looking for.
I will say this, though - the drum sounds aren't bad if you dig the 80's thing. Some good classic 80's gated drum sounds.
Back in the day, I always wanted Korgs, but after my budget went to Yamaha and Rolands, the M1 was always out of reach — an unrequited love to be admired from afar.
Nowadays, now that you can have it all — or at least have what was once the synth of the decade for the cost of lunch — I’m having a blast discovering all these recreations of dreamware of the past. Yes, at the time, the ROMpler was a thing to be overcome, a stepping stone in quest for the ultimate, unlimited realism promised by the dawn of the software virtual instrument some 10 years later.
But now that we are there, in an age of terabytes of SSDs filled this every sound you could ever dream of, I am finding there is a certain charm in revisiting the age where you could take on the world armed with nothing more than a pocketful of sample transients, clever synth programming, and a few effects. And in its era, the M1 certainly WAS a force to be reckoned with, propelling countless hit records of the day.
I find its ROMpler preset palette strangely compelling... Oh to relive the thrill of those halcyon days spent discovering what glory might await you around the next green, LCD bend! Oh look, it’s “BPM Sliced Pad”! To what quadrant of the galaxy might that take me?
So, do I recommend dropping $15 on the iM1? Hell yeah?! And drop a few more bucks to more than double your palette of presets with the IAPs? Definitely.
Thus, to some maybe just a bunch of tired old ROMpler presets, but from my perspective, to be able finally get my hands (er, fingers) on an M1, and now with the ability to instantly access all those menu-hidden parameters with touchscreen ease and elegance... what’s not to like?
It is what it is. Yes, the sounds are bunk, but I don't use them the way they're designed. I hate classic sounds, anyway. I tend to use low notes in high sounds (such as flutes) and vice versa, play with the envelopes, etc.. Plus, I almost always layer them up. I like weird sound, though, so ymmv. It's akin to hacking a toy piano.
I personally adore the iM1 sounds for teh maximum cheeze.
If you already own Korg Gadget... then the iM1 is an absolute NO BRAINER! It's unquestionably one of the top 5 gadgets (darwin) even with the limited parameter control in Gadget. The in-apps are great. I couldn't recommend this more... unless you absolutely loathe 80s/early90s synths.
One of the best features (Hey Korg... do this for ALL your synths) is the search function. I don't know how many times it's helped me find the perfect sound.
We're all incredibly spoiled... imagine having to buy the hardware!
I wanted it, but I had just bought a Roland D20 (the sequencer D50) with Disk Station, in 88.
Yeah I had to toss up between a new M1 or a Wavestation or a D50 at the time.
After half an hour in headphones, the Wavestation won hands down.
I very much like the sound of the M1 for its breath control patches now that I have an EWI.
Why do certain sounds come off so cheesy? Are there any specific artists we can blame? Surely not just the sound of the thing, right? Something to do with saturation through artists music that has not aged well? Why don’t we feel the same way about Moogs? I don’t think are any real answers but isn’t it interesting to think about?
I think about this all the time! Sometimes I think it’s because we’ve had the time to distance ourselves from the older sounds and recognize its own sonic character. A Moog won’t sound like another instrument (no matter how brilliantly Wendy Carlos arranges it!), but we recognize it as a Moog sound and accept it for what it is, in the same way that we can now accept that a Fender Rhodes doesn’t sound like an acoustic piano, but it has its own sound that we love.
Some of the 90s synths, though, approach an almost “uncanny valley” level of sound...it’s so close but not quite enough, so the overall effect is one of “cheese.” (Not to mention the fact that so many of the patches tend to be bathed in chorus and digital reverb and/or delay.)
Of course, hearing the same sound on a hundred Top 40 tracks probably doesn’t help either.
Great post Lady A....
Back at the start of the 90s I had the Yamaha SY77. I didn’t realise at that time that the M1 wasn’t just a sample-playing box but actually was a very sophisticated actual synthesiser only lacking in a resonant filter (which I hardly ever use anyway). When I got the iM1 app a few years ago I was pheasantly surprised to see how much of an actual synthesiser it is, if you ignore all of the samples and sample-playing capability and just concentrate on the oscillators as digital wave generators.
Here’s my WTFknobs on iM1:
Yes!
And the iM1 now has Filters with resonance. Honestly, it's a real powerhouse of a multi-timbral synth.
If all you are getting is cheesy sounds then you obviously aren't travelling further than the first few presets.
The IAPs are well worth it too.
If you spend a bit of time programming it you can get some really nice sounds. It has lots of source waveforms to choose from and has it's own character which complements the analog modelled synths.
Like half of its presets have been used in 90s top hits
Well, it's now 30 years old....I think it was about that age that my jokes became more cheesy than ever
Yeah, spot on !
Just bought and I’m impressed with this synth. Also bought iaps. Now I have Darwin in Gadget
Pardon the shameless self-promotion but I think it's a relevant point. I've linked a song made up almost entirely of M1 patches. The first version was entirely M1 including the drums. I later swapped out the drums for something beefier. Anyway the track is called "Evolution" as a reference to the Darwin name in Gadget. I think you're really going to enjoy this synth, especially when you start making your own patches.
http://lucidmusicinc.bandcamp.com/track/evolution
Very polished production, good work! Looking forward to making my own patches too
Let Doug sell you the iM1
Is it good idea to have both an IOS and a computer copies or just the IOS? Do they sound the same?
Yet another stellar video! Thanks Doug and thanks Samu for posting
Very informative video Ian, you have a great gift of knowledge. Very interesting history of the dwgs.Thanks for sharing!
I always learn something from Ian's video's.....have this on the Watch Later list for a time when i am in receptive mood