KORG MONOPOLY VST MP4

In stark contrast to the reverence in which it is now held, the Mono/Poly made hardly a ripple in a world that was still dominated by powerful American polysynths. The world didn't go bananas for it, although it sold moderately well.

KORG MONOPOLY VST MP4

Korg released the original MP4 'Mono/Poly' analogue synth in 1981. Since we have already covered the MS20 and Polysix emulations ( SOS July and August 2004), this review will focus on the Mono/Poly emulation. Happily, the faux-analogue side of things has not been allowed to flounder, and to the MS20, Polysix and effects that comprised the bulk of the original collection, Korg have now added a Mono/Poly soft synth to create the Legacy Collection Analogue Edition 2007. Since then, Korg have extended and repositioned the Legacy Collection, by removing the Wavestation from the original configuration and combining it with a recreation of the M1 to form the Legacy Digital Edition. OK, if you raise the resonance to maximum and make the MS20EX go 'thwipp', you can hear differences between the soft synth and its hardware inspiration, but claims by analogue anoraks that digital recreations 'sound nothing like the original' are untrue, and can safely be ignored. Foremost among these are Korg's recreations of their own MS20 and Polysix. Up to that time, many soft synths had been little more than pretty pictures draped over fairly standard digital signal processing, but Korg and a handful of other manufacturers, notably Arturia and Gmedia, have been in the process of raising the bar considerably, releasing soft synths that, for some uses, are indistinguishable from the instruments on which they are modelled. I reviewed the original Korg Legacy Collection in April 2004, and I was impressed. Korg revisit their classic Mono/Poly synth in the Legacy Collection Analogue Edition 2007 - but how does it measure up to the original?

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