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Instruments • Re: KORG Collection 5 with ARP 2600 Emulation coming Summer 2024

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The Triton plugin alone is worth $199
It's funny that we all have our preferences. I've never even installed Triton, and I used to own one. I can't imagine it has anything I'd find useful today. OTOH, I think it's worth the full price of entry for ARP Odyssey or ARP 2600. With both it's an absolute no-brainer.
All depends on what you want.

Korg's Triton (and Roland's Fantom, and Yamaha's Motif line both from the same period) existed from a time when samples and the machines that played them back were starting to get good enough and the rom and ram they needed was starting to get cheap enough that they sounded pretty realistic while having just enough of a not quite realistic edge that they still sounded like an electronic instrument trying to sound like a realistic instrument

For me that's a refreshing contrast over things like multi gigabyte sized Kontact libraries

The thing with Korg's Triton Plugin is that they include all of that sample content right in the plugin itself. Unlike Roland who calls the Fantom XV5080 which it's not, and made all of the expansion ROMs into separate instruments so they are not all together

Or Yamaha's Motif which doesn't exist in plugin form but has it's AWM2 sample content available in the Montage which I also own in Hardware and Software

For me the 2600 and Odyssey are interesting but just represent option numbers 132 &133 of ways to send a square and sawtooth wave through a Resonant Filter while that is interesting I got bored with doing that as a teenager in the 1980s, and if I want that I have Diva and a ton of other vintage Analog Emulations that I got in bundles including Korg's bundles

Don't get me wrong I am glad I have them, but they are not nearly as compelling to me as the M1, Wavestation, and Triton plugins

Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:58 am



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