Can you program a Korg X50 to sound like this?

[davestrand]

Hi,

My band has faithfully used the Korg X5d for many years. It's pretty wrecked these days so we bought the Korg X50 to replace it, but there's ONE sound that I CANNOT seem to make on it that is used in at least 8 of our live songs. I think it's called Ping on the X5d

Here is an example of the exact sound we need to make on the Korg X50. Is there any master synth programmer out there who can hook us up with this patch?

http://strandland.com/korg/PingExample1 - Output - Stereo Out.wav

Thanks,
-Dave Strand

p.s. Xtra Credit would be this more complicated version of that keyboard sound at about 13 seconds into our song Haunted. We need this sound for just one song, so it's not as critical because we've just been using the patch above.

Free Song -> http://secret.strandland.com/mp3/Haunted {SL Master}.mp3

 

[Skipp]

X50 uses Triton's HI synthesis... X5D on the other hand uses Korg's older AI2 synthesis - meaning, you won't find all samples on newer keyboards.

You'll probably need to reprogram the sound yourself. It sonds like a mix of a sine wave and some bell-ish like sound. Try playing with sounds a bit

I'm sure you'll be able to recreate something similar

 

[Sargas]

I did a rather quick attempt to recreate it on my Korg M50. I've barely even started scratching the surface of sound programming on the M50 yet, so I'm pretty bad at it actually... But anyway, here's my go at it:

Attempt 1: http://www.box.net/shared/bz6bmpmxsu

Attempt 2: http://www.box.net/shared/3yt3hu5qhe

Here's what I did, I guess you can do it in a similar way on the X50.

I used 2 Oscillators, one rather smooth oscillator with a choir waveform and a pad waveform, and one "hard" oscillator with a Woodblock waveform and a Marimba waveform.
I made the smooth oscillator sustain, while the hard one had a rather quick decay. Then I added Reverb, Echo and Tremolo to both Oscillators.

I know the end result was far away from identical to your example. But at least it's a start, and from there I guess you could make it more similar if you put some more time into it, as this was just a quick test kinda.

I hope it helped you out a little bit at least

 

[Skipp]

Well, the X50 owners will run into a brick wall with only ONE insert effect.

So choose carefully

 

[Sargas]

Well, the X50 owners will run into a brick wall with only ONE insert effect.

So choose carefully

Oh, that sucks :S

I'd say go for the Echo then, the tremolo wasn't really that important, and a wet echo will hopefully fill out the lack of Reverb anyway...