SV: Re: SV: Re: [sdiy] Korg MS20 good deal?

[Michael Bacich]

On Apr 16, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Chris Manders wrote:

> 5) If I owned a Korg MS-20, I would not want to bring
> it with me to gigs due to reliability issues.
>
> I have seen many people gigging using Laptops and
> Software synths.


Not really arguing with any of your excellent points, but I have to  
say that I think my Korg MS-20 is much sturdier and more reliable  
than any Laptop computer I have ever owned.  I am always very  
apprehensive about using a Laptop on gigs, especially if the whole  
show depends on it.  That's just too many very fragile eggs in one  
very fragile basket for me.  If I need sequencing on a gig, I usually  
try to use a prerecorded Minidisc to handle it -- this has always  
worked well for me.  If the show needs more than two audio outputs  
from the sequences, I use one of those 4-track Minidisc units (Yamaha  
MD4S).  I've used laptops on shows before, and it always made me very  
nervous.  That's just me, i guess, since a lot of people are  
obviously quite successful and happy with that kind of setup.

My MS-20 is actually pretty tough, is about 25 years old, and has  
never failed on me, not even once.  I don't like taking it to gigs,  
though -- too much hassle, no polyphony, no built-in effects, not  
sonically flexible enough.  For live work, I'd rather just replace it  
with some crappy sounds I program in my JV-1080 (blasphemy!), which  
is close enough in sound (double blasphemy!), plays 64 voices,  
remembers patches, has MIDI and effects, and also can provide a  
decent dulcimer, pan flute, french horn, cowbell, or orchestra hit if  
the need arises -- and it does, often.

MB


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