Korg Legacy Bundle Plus A ROM

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The Global settings now include user-selectable polyphony values of eight, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 notes to suit your needs.

This time, its 1988s classic M1 workstation thats been rendered in software.

The Wavestation is renowned for its slowly evolving timbres and its strings of rapidly changing wave-sequenced tones, while the other two synths and the mini MS20 controller were unquestionably aimed at analogue fans.

This once again includes the Wavestation emulation (now up to v1.5), but this time its partnered with a software emulation of Korgs M1 workstation.

This makes far more sense to me, as the M1 is probably the most famous and best-selling digital workstation of all time.

Even people who still have Wavestations and M1s have an incentive to buy the Digital Edition, since it includes the sample and patch collections that were originally only available on expensive ROMPCM cards.

By my reckoning, the cards in this bundle would have cost over 1000 at their original prices.

On Macs, OS 10.2.8 or later is required to run Legacy Digital Edition, along with a minimum of a G4 500MHz machine with 256MB of RAM, while PC owners will need at least Windows XP, a Pentium III 1GHz processor, and 256MB of RAM.

These are modest requirements, but borne out by my tests 64 notes played on Legacy M1 typically required just 25 percent of my Pentium 4 2.8GHz PCs CPU power.

Im certainly happier with this form of protection, since you never have to reauthorise a dongle after changing your computer or hard drive.

You dont have to worry about possible dongle conflicts if you already have one or more Syncrosoft dongles installed either, since Syncrosofts Licence Control Centre software supports multiple dongles from different manufacturers.

I checked with both Korg and Steinberg to see how they felt about one of their dongles being used to store the licence relating to another companys product, and they confirmed that theres no technical reason why it cant be done, but did point out the complications that might ensue if the dongle was lost or stolen.

The contents of the 19 expansion cards originally sold as optional extras for the M1 (shown right) are instantly available in the software version via a mouse click.

Korg Legacy Bundle Plus A ROM

Most were originally sold as a pair of plug-in hardware cards one for the PCM (sample) data, plus a ROM card holding various amounts of ProgramCombi data.

M1 Programs (patches) feature either one oscillator, filter, and an amplifier chain (in Single mode), two in parallel (Double Mode), or a drum map, filter, and amplifier chain.

Up to eight Programs can be combined into a Combi, layered, split across the keyboard or at a certain MIDI velocity, or used as a Multi, with each Program on a different MIDI channel.

Two effects blocks were also included at the end of each chain to provide a finished sheen to your Programs.

There were 16-bit samples from a variety of acoustic instruments, a set of short sampled attack portions, digital waveforms, and of course that famous hard acoustic piano, which proved ideal for cutting through dense rock and dance mixes.

Astoundingly by todays standards, these sounds filled just 4MB.

The real bonus, though, is the inclusion of the contents of all 19 of Korgs original ROMPCM cards (see the box below).

Theres a resonant filter (how hard we programmers tried to work around the lack of one on the original M1), an extra LFO for amp modulation, and a new compressor, plus many extra effects.

On the Legacy M1, when you switch to Combi mode the two Master effects are available as before, but you can also optionally retain the two Insert effects of the individual Programs (so up to 16 supplementary effect blocks are available).

For more control, theres also a new Multi mode that offers full eight-part multitimbral operation with up to eight separate stereo outputs, with individual effect sends from each Program to the Master effects.