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Korg m1 samples11/12/2022 ![]() Samples are fixed in the synthesizer and can be expanded by only about 16 plug-in cards that include fixed samples, too. and finally the sound is processed by the built-in effect module. With such "raw" sounds, some edits are performed - envelope, vibrato, filters, etc. The legendary KORG M1 synthesizer works on the principle of playing back PCM samples. This goal has been achieved and the whole project has been reached to a successful end. The goal was to remake the KORG M1 synthesizer so that it can be possible to insert a custom samples. Enjoy.This is a very extensive project that includes hardware modifications of the KORG M1 synthesizer, development and production of several microcomputer devices, analysis of a large amount of data without any description, development of several computer programs, and production of samples. Besides, when I didn't do the sampling I'm stuck with whatever I found free. It probably could use some tweaking for the velocity or something, but it works pretty well as is, I think. sfz and you're done! Open up the sfz in LS or another SFZ player and start housing it up. Save that and download the samples and extract all the wav files into a folder named M1piano next to the. Just copy and paste the following into a text file called KorgM1Piano.sfz (or whateveryouwant.sfz): I don't know if I'll use them a lot (though they are in one song currently in the to be mixed pile), but I've done the work now so hopefully someone else will use them a lot. But it wasn't too long before I had the SFZ up in LS and was jamming out. The best resource was the cakewalk sfz specification (RTFM-read the friendly manual, right?). I had to do some research and looked at some examples from rytmenpinne (which are amazing piano and drum sample packs). The format is pretty powerful if you have all the right samples but for something like this with discrete notes and no expression its still pretty simple. SFZ is especially nice in this case since I don't know if I have rights to provide the samples (and I don't have a file hosting service if I did) but I can easily (and legally) provide a link to where you can download them and a text file that "ties in" all the samples to one pack. The file that tells the sampler what sound to play is separate from the actual file of the sound. SFZ is a very nice format for this sort of thing because it is non-monolithic, so the parts are all separate. ![]() Isn't SFZ the magical format that can turn any sound files into a sample pack? Why yes it is. ![]() Unfortunately these samples weren't in a format I could use in LinuxSampler (LS). Intrigued and uncertain what house music really was I downloaded them. The BPB comment was that this synth piano sound was the de-facto standard for house music in the 90's. One of the samples was from the Korg M1 piano. These had some nice comments on each sample, though they didn't really provide any definitive better or worse comparisons. I'd been on a kick collecting free samples and found the shootouts on the Bedroom Producers Blog (BPB). Why? It was so simple I didn't even think about it as a project. I had a great project I did probably a year ago and never shared. ![]() I realized I'd been holding out on both you readers. Just a few small changes as per request of the professors and then any typos the grad school can catch. Hey, guess what? I actually defended my thesis! That means its 99% of the way done. ![]()
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