nickmccullum808 - 30 July 2010 10:47 AM

Dreamflight - 30 July 2010 10:08 AM

nickmccullum808 - 30 July 2010 06:54 AM

Alright, thanks. I hear a lot of peopel diss the organ sounds on the motif compared to the korg tritons and the m3, is any of that true?

In my synth collection I have an XS, Triton Rack and M3, amongst other things.

The preset XS organs are not noticeably better or worse ‘out of the box’ than those in the M3 or Triton. Digital distortion is by its very nature not particularly authentic for organ sounds, but combining it with the master FX on the XS gives the XS the edge over the others, in my opinion.

There is a patch for the Yamaha SY85 which uses a digital distortion on there and gives exquisite results, but I’ve not been able to reproduce this on any of the Motifs unfortunately.

Df.

Do you think the XS is the better unit out of the three?

The XS is best for overall music production and if I could only have one board, that would be it.

The question is it the ‘better unit’ doesn’t really make any sense. It’s down to personal preference, although I doubt many people would prefer a Triton to an XS.

When you use an M3 you start to value some things about the XS a lot - especially the insert FX being part of the voice. The M3 has much more flexible FX routing than the XS (you can share one insert FX between multiple tracks, for example), but less overall DSP horsepower and you need to be more of an engineer to get sequencer mixes sounding right.

If I was just using them as sound sources, with no regard to the sequencer, then I’d consider any of them to be fine.

I love the string sounds on the M3 in particular, it doesn’t have arpeggiators as powerful as the XS, but it does have Karma which is something else altogether. I haven’t really explored Karma much yet, but it looks very powerful and the stock demos of it are superb. The drums on the M3 are a strong point too in my opinion.

This is why I don’t sell synths when I upgrade. Every board has its own sonic character, strengths, weaknesses and foibles. I have sounds on the SY85, nearly 20 years old now, which I’ve never been able to reproduce on modern synths.

Df.