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There are several variations including one with a lovely 88 note weighted keyboard and a floppy disk version the 01/W-FD. The floppy is really useful for saving sequences from the onboard sequencer (which is also very good). |
These
days
I mainly use the 01 for some spot sound which is still remains useful
for (see below) and I know I can get the sound easily rather than
searching a huge set of patches on another instrument! There are some
very
characteristic and authentic, classic sounds from the Korg O1.
Sounds of note
The following sounds are my favourite presets on the 01. But only a few! Perhaps at some point I will include some of my own sounds.
| O1 Sounds of Special Note | ||
| Preset # |
Sound Name |
Comments |
| A00 | Ephemerals | A wonderful luscious choral pad. Trouble is everyone's used it! |
| A19 |
Jet Stream | Great 'woosh' sound useful for leading in major musical changes. |
| A64 |
JStick Wah | Good pre-acoustic modelling elec guitar. |
| A75 |
Log Drums | Nice cool sound for backing percussion but in tune. |
| A99 | Flutter | Sexy chorus type sound, well used but not dead! |
| B19 | Stadium!!! | Cheesy 'I have an audience' sound in the right context, but use it as a replacement for the sea and it's great. Oxygene here I come! |
| B50 | Hyperboria | Nice playable chorus pad. |
| B70 | Gasmore | Characteristic 'decorating' or lead sound |
Experiences
The 01 has been a great investment both for the sounds and as a controller keyboard. The joystick is great outputting 3 controllers (pitch, mod and breath) though most of the 'live' features I have never used.The
problem
my 01 has suffered is that the INC / DEC keys have almost completely
stopped working making data entry realy irritating - I am not sure if
this is because the previous owner was a little heavy handed (or indeed
me!) or the design is at fault. I have tried once to get to the back of
the switches but it seems
a big job.
I have
finally
managed to sort this problem out. It involved removing all the main
PCBs
and even the keyboard itself to get to the board with the switches on.
I
have replaced all 6 of them with new switches (very cheap) from
Maplin
and now all works fine :)
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