Last update:23/04/00
Last update:23/04/00
Prologue:
Rumours of a successor to the K5 being released
started to emerge in the music press....
Hysteria:
One fanatic but rather pleasant K5m user (me!)
read about this upcoming successor to the throne of synthkind.
Having explored different synthesis methods over
the years I had come to the conclusion that the K5 was the timbrally most
versatile beast in my wax museum of 'freak*' synths . It does lack bottom
and punch though, which I presumed was due to hardware limitations (the
K5 is rumoured to be 8-bit). These limitations would certainly be remedied
in the upcoming successor.
Hallelujah!
I bought a K5000s as soon as I could get my hands
on one.
| Down to earth (Subjective):
It did have the punch and bottom lacking in the K5! The sound quality of the K5000 is ..good. However it didn't sound as...hmm. It sounded dry, "grainy" and uninteresting whereas the K5 sounded brittle, noisy and hm, smoother (It seems that pop, fizzle and crack adds 'life' to a sound). When I started fiddling with the myriad of parameters I didn't get the results which I expected. What's wrong with it, I wondered and started exploring it with the aid of my trustworthy and versatile assistant, Igor. I immediately commanded Igor to do some sampling, FFT-ing and inverse FFT-ing(0-phase, simple envelopes) to simulate the K5000. To my surprise the same kind of noises emerged from Igor as from the K5000. After slapping Igor around a few times I came to my senses remembering that Igor doesn't lie. Without as much as a sign of forgiving Igor or having been in error I started constructing new experiments to explore the K5k with Igor grovelling at my feet in hope for a sign of affection. |
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