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Korg M50

Postby Mothy » 01 Aug 2014, 00:46

Hi all. Anyone use a Korg m50 with the stage? If so, how integrated is your setup? Do you use each one as a complimentary but independent keyboard for example, or are the two symbiotically midi together with sequencers , master clocks and patches working in unison?? Just interested to get ideas for my own set up. Cheers.
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Re: Korg M50

Postby anotherscott » 01 Aug 2014, 00:58

At one point, I had this combination MIDI'd together, just in a very simple way which basically allowed me to use the M50's touchscreen to call up the patches I wanted on the Nord. Other than that, they were independent (I played Korg sounds on the Korg, Nord sounds on the Nord, and didn't do any sequencing).
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Re: Korg M50

Postby Mothy » 01 Aug 2014, 08:21

Thanks anotherscott. I think that's the way to go for me too.
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Re: Korg M50

Postby Gustavo » 01 Aug 2014, 17:10

I have an M50 as well, although I haven't used it on a gig.

I think the best way to hook them up is just have either one of them just send midi program changes.
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Re: Korg M50

Postby Mothy » 02 Aug 2014, 00:28

Thanks. I always get enthused about complex configurations, having keys triggering lush creamy pads, syncopated with layered arpeggios and crazy chord changes. Then 9 times out of 10 I end up in a blues gig, and have a piano on one keyboard and Hammond on the other for the whole night! Just as fulfilling but not quite as technical!
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Re: Korg M50

Postby RedLeo » 02 Aug 2014, 05:22

It's the lot of the jobbing keyboard player. :( If you really would like keyboards to be the centerpiece, have you considered doing something of your own? Your music, your terms. Never did JMJ any harm.
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Re: Korg M50

Postby Mothy » 02 Aug 2014, 08:13

I'd like to do that, in fact I've written quite a lot of stuff that Id like to arrange. Not sure my wife would be up to losing me on another project!
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