Oh man! I been hunting for an M1REX since I bought an M1, some of those PCMs on the EX model are killer and the thought of investing into the cards is scary. Now I only have a lowly wavestation SR to give me those plinky sounds…
I bet the D-05 can fill the void too! If one has grown up listening to classic D-tech ala UR etc, you know what those sounds will do when combined with a more “traditional” synth & drum machine rig.
Its kinda ironic that when me and my pals originally started making music in the 90s, all we had was this M1/D-50 sounding stuff… and we thought it sounded rubbish, craved for stuff like the volcas… And now when I got all the stuff I wanted back then (and more!), I finally find myself craving those “rubbish keyboards” back
i had the regular m1 rom on my ex forever because i was having difficulty finding proper one. Interestingly the rom for the m1rex is basically the same as one of the korg t models, the t1 or t3. might be an avenue to check out if you cannot find a m1rex. I do have a kawai k4 which is a rather adept wavetable synth.
It’s amazing how synths can sound dated at one point and then be reintroduced later and sound fresh. I think though it has to do more with the mentality toward synthesis rather than the actual synths themselves. how musicians approach synthesis is entirely different, at the time of the d-50 and m1 it was all about digitally emulating instruments no matter how bad those emulations sounded. I think the instrument emulation phase has ended and there is more of a focus on pure sound design.
the D-50 is extremely capable of making far out and juicy sounds, it’s just that when everyone was making presets back then, they were all trying to emulate the stuff they already heard before. (edit: haha i didn’t read what jefones just wrote)
Heh, yeah, exactly. I like the contrast between the Roland videos that are kind of celebrating these cheesy old presets and then Legowelt creating his “esoteric” / “exotic” (his words) stuff, which is way more interesting and relevant.
This arrived today. Ok, I love this thing. I’ve never owned a D-50 before, but this is so interesting to me. I’m also enjoying editing it with its menu system because I’m odd; it feels like using a Linux terminal to me.
I love the reverb, chorus, and filter. What an interesting filter. This will be fun to tinker with no doubt.
Kind hope there new digital recreations get something along the lines of the system 1m, plug out for different synths and some patch points for some new weirdness.
