Ds-10

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Got my copy of Korg DS-10 today.



What to say except that this is way better than i thought it would be and my expectations were pretty damn high. The interface is simple but deep and the level of tweakability is outdone only by the amount of pure hands on fun you can have.


Made this up and mashed it on the spot:
http://www.cutoutonline.co.uk/stuff/korgds10_madeup.mp3


This is demo 1 (of 2) with some mucking around:
http://www.cutoutonline.co.uk/stuff/korgds10_demo1.mp3

[mattp]

Sounds really good. Where did you get it from ?

[Loz]

there are loads up on ebay at the moment

[emef]

wow sounds pretty fucking good for straight out of the box

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i got mine from playasia.com for $60 - had it on pre-order from the moment i saw it. i figured with parenthood looming, making acid nonsense on a ds is probably the best way to get my music making fix for the next 6 months and although I've only had it for 1 day, I reckon this is much more usable than any of the other options i have (nanoloop, nitrotracker and dsglitch) - the interface and design are just very, very smart and it feels good as you use it.

Only criticism so far is that you can't tweak in song mode and patterns are limited to 16 steps, but you can store 16 patterns per 'session' (with either forced or timed swap) and so for jamming and live it's top.

[mattp]

dsglitch is pretty good.

[big raff]

ds-10 rocks. just figured out how to create your own drum sounds. (the preset ones were pretty weak).
deffo the beast ds music maker around.

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yeah, it's a shame you can't tweak the patch for a drum sound on the fly the way you can with the synths but this is made up for with the fact you can add independent effects for each drum sound. In fact, just the fact that you can treat drum sounds like a synth sound, playing notes and creating long decays and such means you basically have 6 completely flexible sound sources.

How long have you had yours Raff?

[big raff]

i got a hold of the file through dashroms on tuesday...but i'll deffo get a legit copy.

[Yer_Maw]

amazin.

my mum wont give me my DS back though

[spoon]

Originally Posted by big raff

i got a hold of the file through dashroms on tuesday...but i'll deffo get a legit copy.

I couldn't get that rom to work. It just booted up into a black screen with some Japanese text and wouldn't go any further. Did you have to patch it first or something?

[big raff]

that happened to me....i had to download the latest firmware for my r4ds

[spoon]

Thanks Raff, I updated my firmware and it works fine now.

It's bloody brilliant, I was up half the night messing with it.

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i'm onto my 2nd proper tune. 6 more and i'm ready to hit the club circuit i reckon.

[emef]

they're all japanese at the mo aren't they?
can you change the language to english?
gonna get one, thought i'd ask before i bought it

[emef]

i bought the jap version... fingers crossed eh haha

[spoon]

All the text in the Japanese one is in English (except that error message I got at first), you don't have to change languages or anything.

[emef]

nice one... cheers

[emef]

got my copy today... pretty easy to get round it straight outt't box
can get some well sick kick and bass out of it

is there and eq section that i haven't noticed yet?

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Originally Posted by emef

got my copy today... pretty easy to get round it straight outt't box
can get some well sick kick and bass out of it

is there and eq section that i haven't noticed yet?

there's no master eq section, but you can obviously tweak the overall top/mid/bottom of each sound by using the cut off/peak and filter type for each sound

[emef]

aye

btw post any tips on here that ya think others might not have worked out, i'm fairly retarded when it comes to electronic gear
bloody japanese manual
i wish the patterns were longer than 4 bars

[big raff]

i managed to make a similar sound to the alpha juno hoover on it

[emef]

haha noice, shame your not gonna be down the soundhaus tomorrow night
i'm gonna embarrass meself by playing 2 tracks wi't ds-10
really wanna find out what it sounds like on a big rig, sounds good at home like

btw i'm getting an r4 card so that means i should be able to make copies of my cartridge ----> is that right?
i'm a total noobie when it comes t't nds
if so we can swap tracks and butcher each others if your up for it raff

[Ro Land]

So how much would a DS, cartridge and DS-10 set me back?

I know I could work it out myself but I'm sure plenty of other people are doing the same sums...

[big raff]

Originally Posted by emef

btw i'm getting an r4 card so that means i should be able to make copies of my cartridge ----> is that right?
i'm a total noobie when it comes t't nds
if so we can swap tracks and butcher each others if your up for it raff

i think its easy to transfer data between 2 ds's via the wireless link, but i'm unsure how you could extract song or pattern data to save it to a micro sd (via r4ds), as i'd be well up for track swappage and butchering.....
damn i wish i was in glasgow tomorrow!

[big raff]

Originally Posted by Ro Land

So how much would a DS, cartridge and DS-10 set me back?

I know I could work it out myself but I'm sure plenty of other people are doing the same sums...

ds=£99
ds10=£35/£40

[emef]

i managed to buy a decent nds on ebay for £75
and got the ds-10 for £34 including postage on ebay
from this chap arigato1
took less than a week to arrive from japan

[Spandex]

I stayed up way too late last night and programmed the 1st 11 bars of the fugue from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d-minor. It sounds rubbish but I can't stop.

Didn't realise u can do 4-bar patterns. That might be easier

[emef]

Originally Posted by big raff

i think its easy to transfer data between 2 ds's via the wireless link, but i'm unsure how you could extract song or pattern data to save it to a micro sd (via r4ds), as i'd be well up for track swappage and butchering.....
damn i wish i was in glasgow tomorrow!

i got a 'copy' of ds-10 off dashroms (as well as the real copy i bought), i was thinking if i used the copy on the r4 card then i'd be able to dump the whole cartridge with whatever i'd written on it onto the pc and send it ya

that would work, or am i being retarded?????
would i be able to make a copy of my real cartridge and whack it on't r4 card then to pc?????

but yeah we could do it by wireless link, assuming you ever come out to a club night again

[emef]

Originally Posted by Spandex

I stayed up way too late last night and programmed the 1st 11 bars of the fugue from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d-minor. It sounds rubbish but I can't stop.

Didn't realise u can do 4-bar patterns. That might be easier

ignore me, i might have meant, i wish it could do more than 1 bar
4 beats... ahem i may well be a musical idiot haha