I've never considered buying a Korg synthesizer before. I don't know how to play a keyboard! I don't know what all those knobs and wires do! I would be totally useless with one. But when the Korg DS-10 card was revealed yesterday, I was suddenly filled with desire to own a synthesizer. Of course I need one of those, I thought -- I've always wanted one.It's sort of a reversal of the expanded audience idea. While Nintendo intends to have this kind of stuff on the DS to bring people in who traditionally don't like games, I find myself as a gamer drawn to stuff that I wouldn't really want unless it were released on a game console. I know I'm not the only person who decided it was very important to keep my brain active right around the time Brain Age came out.
The very nature of something being on the DS makes it more interesting to me. Anyone else feel the same way?
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3-14-2008 @ 9:28AM
Madhatter said...
yeah i feel the same way, the idea of having something creative like that in my pocket makes me happy :)
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3-14-2008 @ 10:30AM
TheCoats said...
Feel the same way but i cant help but wonder if that just makes me a casual gamer.......i dont like "gamer-stereotypes" and i know i am being challenged and having fun so IDK......anyway Pocket Physics=LOVE
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3-14-2008 @ 10:52AM
foosnark said...
Yeah. I don't do crosswords or sudoku, except on the DS.
OTOH, I've been an electronic musician for as long as I've been a gamer, so Korg DS-10 is just a double win in my book. I'm more concerned about how to integrate it with my PC-based music setup. :)
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3-14-2008 @ 12:05PM
van said...
I'm a musician and a gamer and when I've been excited about this release since I first read about it yesterday. I always wanted a KORG, but never wanted to pay the price for it. As I see it, importing this and paying the shipping would still be cheaper.
Also, I've used electroplankton extensively during live shows. It always draws a crowd.
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3-14-2008 @ 12:06PM
van said...
me fail english? that's unpossible
"...I'm a musician and a gamer and when I've been excited about this release since I first read about it yesterday."
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3-14-2008 @ 12:07PM
van said...
... sorry third comment. take out the "when." I tried doing a strikethrough code, but these comments don't accept html???
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3-14-2008 @ 2:19PM
Frastoglegnia said...
The DS-10 card/software wasn't written strictly for amateurs. It's a viable product for professional musicians as well. The submenus and software knobs look a lot like the interface on the Korg Oasis, which also had a very small screen.
I've been a studio keyboardist and arranger for most of my life, and when I heard that Korg was writing workstation software for the DS, I couldn't believe it. Uninformed comments on engadget about DS-10 looking "too complicated" or like "a boring game" completely miss what this release is going to do for musicians who long to be able to write on a train without fearing someone will steal their $2000 laptop.
A stylus and touch screen are *perfect* for music composition, and the portability and fit of the DS Lite destroys the 15" MacBook Pro. I just wrote about the DS-10 at the BigBlueLounge (a board for pro arrangers and composers), so I won't repeat myself here, but I'm incredibly excited about this. I can't wait to leave my laptop at home and take my DS with me to write music at my girlfriend's place. Now if only someone would write the consummate WP program for the DS -- then I could write fiction as well. (The homebrew apps I've looked at for writing haven't been very good, but we've all read about people who write novels on their cellphones.)
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3-14-2008 @ 2:28PM
Frastoglegnia said...
One last thing: The Korg workstation I mentioned earlier is called an Oasys -- that's Oasis with a y -- but the screen is larger. The small bluish screen I was thinking of really belongs to the Korg Triton (as well as several other 90s keyboards before it -- the M1 and the Wavestation, for example).
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3-14-2008 @ 2:28PM
Frastoglegnia said...
One last thing: The Korg workstation I mentioned earlier is called an Oasys -- that's Oasis with a y -- but the screen is larger. The small bluish screen I was thinking of really belongs to the Korg Triton (as well as several other 90s keyboards before it -- the M1 and the Wavestation, for example).
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3-14-2008 @ 10:58PM
NetOperator Wibby said...
This is so awesome. I just don't have anything different to say from what has already been posted.
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3-15-2008 @ 1:19AM
algarcia said...
well, i really i'm more into plataformers thn any other game. i love final fantasy 3 (it's the firs RPG i really play) but i enjoy more NSMB and MarioKart. I use often Opera on my DS and just got an used copy of electroplankton, but must admit the Korg synth is a really nice thing since i'm a musician. now, it would be even better if they realeased a slot-2 port-thingy allowing you to plug your regular midi keybord-controller in order to squeeze all the things out of the DS. i hope the announce that soon, otherwise its kinda useles haveing a really nice piece of software for your nintendo and not being able to perform LIVE with in.
i used the korg M1 about 1 year ago. didnt like the lack of knobs!
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3-15-2008 @ 11:32AM
raindog said...
Actually, the M1's display is sort of an amber backlit LCD, and it has no knobs because there wouldn't be much of a point (it's purely sample-based, no analog or simulated analog to speak of.) Mine's been sitting in storage for years because it can't do anything a $20 soundcard can't do better.
That said, while I'll be ordering this through Play Asia if I have to, I don't think the touch screen knobs are going to work all that well. Ever since the DS Lite came out, I've thought it would be great to have a small keyboard into which the DS could dock (using Slot 2), providing a keyboard and MIDI while using the DS as the synth engine. I know I'll never see anything like that unless this DS-10 thing sells like crazy and Yamaha or Edirol gets into the act, but I still think it'd be cool.
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