Korg Legacy, why no other orig manufacturers?

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:02 pm

so korg have brought out the legacy collection (well some time ago)

i was wondering why none of the other old synth manufacturers have done this?

they seem quite happy to let other people do "faithful copies" of their old beloved synths

now i for one would be much happier to buy a virtual jupiter 8 plug in made by roland as oppose to arturia who have a less than brilliant track record for the accuracy of their emulations.

have the likes of roland and yamaha, missed an opportunity? im sure they have the in-house facilities to pull this kind of project off.

could the smaller synth companies that still exist like buchla and EMS do the same? (oh god how i would love a EMS synthi VST!)

opinions?

mono/noise · Post by **mono/noise** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:12 pm

There are a few EMS synthi plugins.

This one made by EMS them self but in SynthEdit
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1186.html

And this one made in Max/MSP.
http://www.macmusic.org/news/view.php/lang/fr/id/5098/

I quit like the later one and it's free, the EMS one is very expensive considered that it's made in SynthEdit.
I have also heard mixed reports regarding it's sound.

fOZf8 · Post by **fOZf8** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:31 pm

That synthedit one IS alot of fun though, truth be told....I almost died when I saw this though...

Roland essentially DOES make softsynths of alot of their old gear, they just put it into hardware and sell it at higher proprietary costs. Overall, I think the ways of the old and this 'new=fangled' computer revolution are still have issues that have not come to full light yet ...most likely in regards to financial supplementation of the route of conforming to a standardized platform...ie, you build your OWN platform, you need not conform, and you can (possibly) yield higher profits.

donaldm · Post by **donaldm** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:49 pm

I want a Ensoniq Legacy collection

ESQ-1
SQ-80
VFX
SD-1
Fizmo

antilles · Post by **antilles** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:01 pm

I'd like an Oberheim Legacy collection !

Bill_Schroder · Post by **Bill_Schroder** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:48 pm

How do I get the free French EMS synthi to work? It's only avaible on windows in French, which I do not understand.

chamomileshark · Post by **chamomileshark** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:25 pm

I'm not sure the french synthedit one is worth it at any price really..there was a free one from Richard Brooks, then a cheap synth edit one from EFM (they may be giving it away free now).

mono/noise · Post by **mono/noise** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:13 am

Bill_Schroder wrote:How do I get the free French EMS synthi to work? It's only avaible on windows in French, which I do not understand.

Can't help you with the Windows site of things since I use a Mac, but it just recently got ported to Windows so maybe there are some bugs there.
You do have Pluggo runtime installed right?

http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/downl ... o-runtime/

haricots · Post by **haricots** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:08 pm

There's a great ensemble for Reaktor called SIAC_2-1 which recreates the Synthi quite nicely.

chamomileshark · Post by **chamomileshark** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:12 am

yes, SIAC is great, my favourite emulation even without the sequencer.

garranimal · Post by **garranimal** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:00 pm

antilles wrote:I'd like an Oberheim Legacy collection !

h**l yeah.

Post by **Mixolydian** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:21 pm

I'm not sure what they're going to offer, but Roland now has an empty Soft Synth box on their US site: http://www.rolandus.com/products/subcat ... arentId=17

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:18 am

fOZf8 wrote:Roland essentially DOES make softsynths of alot of their old gear, they just put it into hardware and sell it at higher proprietary costs. Overall, I think the ways of the old and this 'new=fangled' computer revolution are still have issues that have not come to full light yet ...most likely in regards to financial supplementation of the route of conforming to a standardized platform...ie, you build your OWN platform, you need not conform, and you can (possibly) yield higher profits.

Exactly. I doubt any other big manufacturers will put the efort into making softies of their old stuff that will run on PCs considering how quickly KLC got cracked.

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:49 am

Mixolydian wrote:I'm not sure what they're going to offer, but Roland now has an empty Soft Synth box on their US site: http://www.rolandus.com/products/subcat ... arentId=17

Interesting. Any idea how long's it been there?

Post by **Mixolydian** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:41 am

krushing wrote:
Mixolydian wrote:I'm not sure what they're going to offer, but Roland now has an empty Soft Synth box on their US site: http://www.rolandus.com/products/subcat ... arentId=17
Interesting. Any idea how long's it been there?

I was informed on another forum that it used to contain the Roland/Edirol Sound Canvas, and that it was moved to the legacy page. So it may be nothing. I got happy there for a minute when I saw it.

Arturia's Jupiter 8 softsynth is due out in a week or so, so that will be cool. They usually do a good job with their emulations.