The original Korg Legacy Collection used challenge/response protection, but Korg, like Steinberg and Arturia, have switched to using a Syncrosoft USB dongle. These are modest requirements, but borne out by my tests - 64 notes played on Legacy M1 typically required just 25 percent of my Pentium 4 2.8GHz PC's CPU power. On Macs, OS 10.2.8 or later is required to run Legacy Digital Edition, along with a minimum of a G4 500MHz machine with 256MB of RAM, while PC owners will need at least Windows XP, a Pentium III 1GHz processor, and 256MB of RAM. By my reckoning, the cards in this bundle would have cost over £1000 at their original prices.īoth synths in the Legacy Digital Edition can be run as stand-alone applications or as VST, AU, or RTAS Instruments, and the bundle is completed by the MDE X multi-effects plug-in of the previous collection, which has also been upgraded to version 1.2 by the addition of RTAS support. Even people who still have Wavestations and M1s have an incentive to buy the Digital Edition, since it includes the sample and patch collections that were originally only available on expensive ROM/PCM cards. This makes far more sense to me, as the M1 is probably the most famous and best-selling digital workstation of all time. This once again includes the Wavestation emulation (now up to v1.5), but this time it's partnered with a software emulation of Korg's M1 workstation.

Many other Wavestation enthusiasts seemed to agree, so there was renewed excitement when Korg recently announced the Legacy Collection Digital Edition. The Wavestation is renowned for its slowly evolving timbres and its strings of rapidly changing wave-sequenced tones, while the other two synths and the mini MS20 controller were unquestionably aimed at analogue fans. This time, it's 1988's classic M1 workstation that's been rendered in software.Īs a Wavestation SR user, I was excited when Korg released their software version in the original Legacy Collection, but I always viewed the MS20 and Polysix emulations in the bundle as odd bedfellows. Korg are continuing to develop virtual instruments based on their hardware synths. If only the original Korg M1 had included this Easy page to control its envelopes and parameters!

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