Korg DW8000, Mono/Poly, MS-20...

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\ufffds surprised: the DW/EX 
-is- analogue, except the Wavetable-Oscillators, the MS2K/Microkorg has 
a (slow) DSP inside). Can\ufffdt 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\ufffdre 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\ufffdre 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\ufffdt 
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\ufffdt know why the Polysix is nowadays such 
expensive=>it isn\ufffdt -that- special machine, as everyone believes!)....

Greetings

Stef