Atmospheric drum n bass producer. Releases on Omni Music. Teaching you how to recreate that 90s vibe: downtempo, trip-hop, drum n bass, ambient, smooth jazz...the works
0:19 that sounds familiar! Altered States sampled that! That's bad ass that it originally came from the Korg 01/w. I've been searching for some of the original sounds from Shadow Man for forever!
I had an O1/Wfd when it first came out. Just looked up the price and converted it to new money. I'm wondering how the heck I afforded it!! Amazing thing. It was my master keyboard for more than 15 years. Lovely to see it getting revisited. What they did with the waveshaping was brilliant. So lush and iconic.
I love that the Korg 01/W was, like you said, an M1 on steroids, but that waveshaping basically makes it a Wavestation and M1 all in one which is spectacular. Korg has soft synths of the Wavestation and M1 yet nothing for the 01/W which is seriously a crime. Korg, PLEASE make this into a VST!
Very Nice video, TF - I was part of the original voicing team behind the Korg O1W series (I made/edited all of the drum samples, made all the drum patches and tons of Patches and Combinations) It was one of our favorite synths to voice (this synth was developed before the internet really blew up so we did multiple trips to Japan to meet in little rooms in Tokyo to vote and or at times fight between the 8 of us to get our patches in the machine - now there are no flights and it's all spreadsheet based voting which is not the same.) The Waveshaper as you show does cool things to synth sounds but it also does MAGICAL things to acoustic instrument samples. If you look at all the factory patches, we used waveshaping to add missing harmonics in the samples based on how hard you hit the keys - this is something samples alone can't generate and made acoustic instruments have added life in the O1W. It's surprising future synths/samplers have not incorporated these abilities in today's instruments. Anyway, keep making cool videos like this.
Always said one of the things these boxes and what came before them i.e. M1 which make them the classics they are is the voicing, even though it's old this thing is still making relevant music today and is so flexible by not being over processed or having too much of a baked in sound. Out of interest how were the samples created and edited? Did you use something like Jupiter Systems Infinity (Later Antares) for looping the waveforms or something similar?
At 2:35 that preset c22 freeflight reminds me a lot of boards of Canada for some reason like I know I've heard that preset in one of their songs I just can't pinpoint where? 🎹🎚️🎧
Wasn't this used extensively by Phil Wells (Basement Phil) of Basement Records fame? The absolutely iconic bassline on A New Direction ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bYarHK6zCsw.htmlsi=Zprn9Kc_yAwRMss4&t=77 apparently was done on the O1/W
Is it multitimbral? A few of those pads stacked together would sound huge! My old rompler doesn't have enough voices to do that and play chords, so I just send the same note to 8 MIDI channels with a different patch on each channel, then sample it into Pigments. Makes some cool retro pads 😂
A lot of these synths were before my time but I found an appreciation for them by purchasing an old used Kurzweil K2VX when I first got into music. After using that old K2VX I started to dislike many VSTs and modern hardware because they sounded thin. I only played an 01/W once but it sounded far warmer than the newer Korg instruments. The E-MU E4 samplers also have that same warmth.
A friend of mine bought the Korg 01/W when it came out. We both had an Amiga and liked Vangelis and Jarre. That one patch Vangelis used still comes to mind. We visited several Jarre concerts as well. Unfortunately my friend died of cancer early June 2018, just short of turning 50 years old. He still had his 01/W but it was lost when his family cleaned up his house and belongings. At that time in 2018 I started buying synthesizers as well and have been enjoying the hobby since. My synthesizers are technically superior, but I still remember my friend often when playing and I remember his Korg 01/W with fondness. Cheers
Good perspective on the 01/W. I skipped out on this synth for some reason. I have experience with the M1, and Trinity but I never got into the 01/W. I liked the Trinity with the Z1 option. You could do 4 voices of physically modeled sounds. The actual Z1 was even better. I don't think there's a synth that sounds anything quite like the Z1 It's funny how a lot of early 90s synth were trying to do this waveshaping thing. It sounds neat. Great comparison to a tube amp. I'd go a little further and say maybe like a convolution reverb in how they can run an amp cab IR, only instead of using room or cab IRs, use whatever wave your snippet of any sound to effect the original sound. I do this a lot with REVerence in Cubase. I might have to explore an 01/w. Funny how upside down it's an M/10
Very glad I picked up mine for a reasonable price. Pads aside, we need another vid showing off the EXCELLENT rave stab/ punchy fx sounds you can get out of these things.
100 times easier! The Wavestation is essentially a Korg rompler with one mode: combinations. Layer in the odd Performance / Patch architecture - managing things becomes insane on the Wavestation. Change a patch and another performance gets messed up. 01/W is incredibly simple to create patches on - it's very straight forward & similar to the M1 in terms of ease of use
I have a JD990…I think it may be very similar or at least somewhere around the same level judging by the presets and non presets here. It has the same soundshaping capabilities it seems. Probably cant go wrong with either 😅
Great to look back on, i always wanted one of these back in the day but was way out of my price ranges. Love that free flight preset, heard it so many times on tracks, absolutely love it :-)
I like the way you think! I sold my Wavestation A/D as the VST is so good, it became hard to justify. The Wavestation (I believe) uses nearly the same FX engine as the 01/W. Very similar sounding in terms sonic quality. An 01/W and Wavestation together is a killer combo
@@Thought-Forms I kept my A/D , and compared it to the plugin, and the hardware is in another league for me! Maybe the converters, something in the whole processing, but its not the same...
Oh man that sound is AMAZING, should I rush out and try get one (wife will kill me) or will VSTs cover this being all digitally equal? Cheers love your work :)
I need to find a place on the internet where someone has samples of the patches on these 90s rompler/digital synths.. anyone know where i might find such a thing?
Good Question. Everyone will have a strong opinion / point of view on this. Though I do think it's hilarious to me that its such a polarizing topic. From my perspective: 1) sonic quality - hardware tends to sound better 2) features. not all vst emulations of old gear have every feature integrated. example would be the Triton VST missing the ability to use custom samples in programs, something very important to me 3) when no VST equivalents exist. for example: there is no 01/W VST 4) kind of back to sonic quality...folks with outboard based setups (down to an analog mixer, fx units, etc...), you will achieve a sound not possible on computers
@@Thought-Forms Thanks for the answer! I wonder what makes the hardware sound better, since they are digital as well. Maybe some algorithms are trade secrets, so the best that plug-in programmers can do is estimate?
I got the 03R/W some time ago (a little while after I started watching this channel). I have yet to fully explore it, but from what I have heard, it's wonderful.
@@Thought-Forms it does have a waveshaper. in theory the wavestate should be *the* modern classic for rompler bros. I dont quite get on with it, but there are moments where I do and I'm so grateful we got it. Even though it is more capable than anything we had before, I just think it should have been even better and is limited by the rasp pi design. It is a bit hifi IMO, which can be mitigated with the bitcrusher but you lose a really important fx slot for it, and the fx slots are limited already. It can't do reverb per layer, it has less layers than the wavestation... but it can do crazy rhythmic sequencing which is not really a pad bro activity. Kind of confusing design choice there IMO but maybe were not the mainstream.
It's also crazy that it's 32 kHz, but sounds so crisp full warm and fat. And many of its patches like FreshAir, DynoPiano, Ampheralds, are still irreplaceable
You pretty nailed it. Really brings back time. It has the vibe of that Enigma song with the French vocal (forgotten the title) One little tiny thing I'm missing the little pitchbends with the shakuhaschi-flute sound. Otherwise great production, such simple tools but hey they do their job! Nice work! 😎
