yazzofever wrote:
> The korg microkorg boasts 64 of the dwgs waveforms of the old dw-8000.
> I have the microkorg and these waveforms sound AWESOME!! I have been
> told that essentially the microkorg sounds just like the dw-8000. is
> that true?
>
> has anyone ever checked them out side by side?
>
Nop, the DW (i have the EX) sounds imo totally different compared to the
KORG MS-2000 (which is nearly the same like the Microkorg). The DW
sounds after all better, more "analogue" (who´s surprised: the DW/EX
-is- analogue, except the Wavetable-Oscillators, the MS2K/Microkorg has
a (slow) DSP inside). Can´t understand why the MKorg/Ms2K should have 64
different "DW"-Waveforms; the original DW has 16 WF (together with
OSC2=so seen 256 WF). The MKORG has so seen four Oscillators and the
DW/EX 8000 eight.
I think that the DWGS-Waveforms are rather unuseful on the newer
machines, they´re imo only good for emulating weird organs. The
MS2K/MKorg is good for short leads and effects while the DW has more its
strenght in smooth strings/"emulating" flutes etc and -some- basslines
and afterall it sounds more "fat". So they´re imo absolutely not
comparable together. The MS2000-DSP-driven Synths from KORG are,
referred to the sound, so seen "alone" between all other KORG
Synths=>they sound good, but not like KORG (bcoz of this was the MS2K so
seen a big flop, they wanted to produce a MS20-successor, but it didn´t
succeed and the Microkorg/Legacy Pack is the rest of this era) . Ever
heard a MS20, Polysix, Mono/Poly? I know, they are expensive (specially
the MS 10/20, but i don´t know why the Polysix is nowadays such
expensive=>it isn´t -that- special machine, as everyone believes!)....
Greetings
Stef