Listening back over this review, I'm not sure I gave this synth the praise it deserved. These are all mere preset sounds, and they are quite impressive.
Excellent timing. You said “I’m not a big fan of this” and pressed the button once. That’s where RU-vid decided to put an ad break. Couldn’t have worked any better! Thanks for another great video!!!
I still have it, had it 26 years now. Still gigging with it, and totally reliable. The pad sounds and organs are superb, has lots of little features many keyboards don't have - on split programs you can assign the sustain pedal to one sound, but disable it for the others, things like that. I'll keep using it till it dies.
Hmm!? I have seen this thing and its little module for sale for years and I never heard it or gave it a chance! Nice to see you have featured it here my friend! It actually sounds good!
in the 90's I wanted to learn Piano and own one but my parents cannot afford to buy me one or send me to a music school. Now that I am older and I can afford this stuff myself I remember my younger years where I missed the opportunity not availabe to me. Now I just enjoy watching them but I do not have the time energy and interest to play piano anymore. I recently bought my kids a new Roland FP-90 and they play piano very well.
Nice Video as always... O owned this one and Module version X5Dr.... Nice sounds.... If I am not mistaken the Module had more polyphony.... Sharing this Video with my Musicians Friends.
There was an X5D (keyboard) version (with D=doubled polyphony) and the rack version was derived from this one. Hence the name X5DR. Hope this clears it up.
The X5D added about 90 new multisounds to the synth, most of which are sounds that were brought back from the 01/W and T-series synths, a few also come from the Wavestation (like the Glass Vox patch) and others are original. Korg would later use this same sound set for the rest of their AI2 synths, like with the N264/N364, N1, etc.
Is this one just the X5 or is this one an X5D? The reason I ask is because I have the X5DR which is a half rack module version of the X5D which has both the X5 sound set and the X5D sound set. And those piano sounds are actually taken from the 01/W. In fact all of the sounds were. But I do prefer the M1 piano over the piano on the synthesizers.
I should say to that a big difference between the X5 and the X5D is the polyphony. The X5 only had the 32 voice polyphony like the 01/W whereas the X5D & X5DR module had 64 voice polyphony like the N series
@@gearfacts The X5D & X5DR had a second bank of 100 more programs and 100 more combinations though I think too. I actually have the X5DR module, and I have both and a bank and a B bank.
@@gearfacts I said say though that it is kind of weird to access the ENP banks. It is not typically how you would access the banks on any other Korg synthesizer. In order to do this, you have to go into your global settings, and then go to the preload data, and there you will see pre-Dash a and pre-Dash P. Hey is the new sound set for the X5D/X5DR, and B is the original X5/05RW sounds set
I did this review so long ago that I don’t think I can remember any of the patches. With a lot of my synthesizers, I play through all of the patches and simply write down the numbers or names on an empty part of the front panel with a paint marker. Not sure if that’s ideal for the school environment though!
@@Byron101_ I've compared the X-5 and X-5D next to eachother. With the same programs the X-5D sounds a lot richer than the X-5. I can be due to equalizing or other output ciruitry.
X5DR the module version is better value sound wise you get a lot more waveforms waverom for your buck , it's a bit of a menu driven synth, good basses a lot of korg m1 sounds if you like that sort of thing.
Hi there! I just found this same Korg X5 at a flee market. I have no experience and no knowledge whatsoever about it, I just thought it looked cool and the price was about $50 so I did impulse purchase it. I found an old charger adapter and plugged it in and it seems like everything is working as far as I can tell. So I wanted to ask if I did a bad purchase or if it has any value?
@@gearfacts Oh wow really? Even if it’s not in mint condition? I would say mine is in acceptable condition and it shows it’s from 1994 on the display when I switch it on. I had the chance to leave it back to the store and get a full refund but I decided yesterday that I will keep it and try to learn how to play.
@@gearfacts Actually I was going to leave it back to the store but I finally decided to keep it and try to learn how to play. I have been looking at eBay for keyboards but after some research I found out that all those keyboards that looked great to me, was considered toys. I was going to buy one that had all these sound banks, built in speakers and a lot of buttons, I thought it was really a high end keyboard until I learned it was actually more of a 90s children toy. Very embarrassing and I’m happy I did not buy it. So I was thinking that my X5 synth may be old but likely was not geared towards children but rather for musicians. So I thought it was better to keep this Korg to have a more professional synth than a keyboard.
Would love to know more facts about this here gear. Is the interface so horrible and frustrating? No technical information mentioned until the last thirty seconds of the video, besides how clicky the buttons are, unless I missed it somehow. Appreciate the sonic demonstration.
Yeah that's a fair point, I didn't really have long enough with it to fully understand its operation. Still, I guess that shows that it's not intuitive. A pretty good synth overall, but not one that stands out especially, imho
HI gearfacts, I have X5DR, is the same patchlist of keyboard version? another question, i spossible any kind of remapping patches without crash the combis?
Bought this one just for the following soundset, and with this, the x5 shines like a star: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w1jvPARJ0ck.html
That’s not really something I can answer in one comment :-) but you can still get the manual online by googling the model number followed by “PDF”. Hope that helps.
