Korg DSS1: 36 sounds demo 

I had a Korg DW-6000 back in the 80s. I took the filter for granted at the time, but now in hind-sight I realize how amazing it was and wish I hadn't sold it.

Me too, showroom condition.

I still have mine, bought (I think) from the guy who bought it new in ‘86! I didn’t buy it in ‘86 because I was two years old and thus didn’t have the dough.

Yes 😊

iTweak0r * - believe it or not, that works out okay in practice. This thing can make a lot of different sounds out of that amount, and if you have a working floppy drive and most of the free sounds out there, you can build quite the library. I wish those 256K of memory weren't volatile, though. Having to load the sounds every time you turn the thing on gets pretty old.

The samples are only 12 bits, so that leaves space for up to about 174000 samples, or 5.4 seconds at 32 ksample/s, or 21.8 seconds at 8 ksample/s. If you split samples on 5 keyboard ranges, you have about 1.1 second of sample at 32 ksample/s, enough for an attack and a loop. The rest of the magic, are the analog filters and digital effects.

These are becoming more and more sought after

Some advertised for around 1K already...

Aaaand Cannabis! ^^

intenselan Oh how I dreamed of owning both back int he day. (& also the Korg DW8000 & Roland D-50)

What do you have now, Gerry? I still own the DX7IIFD, the Korg X3, Korg Karma and Korg Triton Extreme.(heh, see a pattern?). I used to have access to a Crumar Orchestrator, and you could smell the 70's on it. heh. I also owned a Roland JV-35. I've played a D-50...nice Rhodes EP on it! Gotta LOVE the 80's!

intenselan A pattern? Hmmmm, you like Korg I think? hehehe. So do I, & always have. The Triton Extreme is another synth I'd eventually love to own. (my Triton is 1 of my favorite synths) In the past I had an M1 & 01/Wfd. (& Roland D-10) Currently I own the following synths, keyboards, drum machines, & assorted gear. *Access:* Virus TI2 desktop *Alesis:* D4, DM-Pro, Fusion HD6, Micron, QSR *Casio:* CZ-1, HT-6000 *EMU:* Mo'Phatt, Morpheus *Korg:* DDD-5, DW8000, Kronos X 88, M1Rex, Microkorg, Microkorg XL+, Poly 800, Trinity TR-Rack, Triton Pro 88 w/EXB-MOSS, Z1. *Kurzweil:* PC3K6 *Novation:* Mininova *Roland:* Alpha Juno 1, JP8080, JV1010, SH-01 Gaia, XV5080, W30 *Waldorf:* Blowfeld desktop *Yamaha:* (real) C-6 Conservatory Grand Piano, EX5, Motif 6 w/PLG150-AN, P80 digital piano, PSS-470, RM50, RY30, VSS-100 Mixing Consoles: *Presonus:* StudioLive 16-4-2 AI, Audiobox 44VSL. *Mackie:* 32-8 *Yamaha:* AW16G (digital multi-track record. I record on my PC, but sometimes I use it as a mixer because it's small, quiet, & has phantom power) Effect Processors: (don't really use them very much, except sometimes with my older synths (most newer ones have built-in FX) or I'm just fooling around) *Antares:* ATR-1a *Alesis:* 3 Quadraverbs *Digitech:* DSP128, Studio S100, Vocalist VR *Roland:* RSP550

Impressive I must say! I always wanted a Korg O1/W. Keyboard magazine was like the Bible back in the pre-internet days. You have a lot more equipment than I do or ever did. I have an Alesis SR-16, Boss BR-1180CD, and various MIDI programs on my PC like Cubase and Cakewalk at various times. Nothing like your setup to be sure! That's why it's fun to collaborate, not only do I get serious talent to make our music better, but they usually have better toys than I do! Always good to meet another Korg enthusiast.

Gerry No How's the Fusion for sampling stuff and gigging? I want to get one and put combo organ samples into it. I think it'd be great since combo organ is a pretty basic sound and is already divide-down oscillator based.

Well 11:38 is definitely 'Tron like too then. ;-) (I.e., it's the Mellotron intro Tony Banks wrote for "Watcher of the Skies" by Genesis.)

Brian Davis ahhh that makes sense. thanks.