Get the padKontrol And Save $50 
by Ryan Simpkins from Utah, May 2008

This is a great VST to add to your arsenal. Now-a-days this "Digital" collection brings back the sound of the early 90s that is a whole new generation's "legacy" sound. Considering an M1 originally cost $2200 (without all the sound packs), this software is worth it just for that feature alone. The wavestation cost about as much in its time, and is also included in this bundle. It is even more amazing than the M1, and was used everywhere in the 90s. You'll get some very high quality sounds out of this software, the value really will blow you away.

Learn more about these synths at Wikipedia. Each one has a full article.

Here is a tip: Buy a Korg padKontrol (from sweetwater of course!) and register the M1le program that comes with it. Then you can purchase the full Digital Edition for $99 from Korg's website (it verifies your license code, so you have to purchase it from them).

  Even Better Than The Original Wavestation 
by David Vector from Oscoda, MI USA, May 2006
Music Background:  Indie Recording Artist

I had been eyeing the Legacy Collection for a while and when my Wavestation EX started malfunctioning, it finally gave me an "excuse" to order it.

As a teenager, I owned a Prophet VS and lusted after the PPG Wave; when the Wavestation came along, it was as if Korg had read my mind and created my dream synthesizer, combining the best of those two classic synths in a new instrument that was greater than the sum of its parts. To now have the WS in software, with 256-note polyphony, a resonant filter mode, and vastly improved ease of editing is an absolute thrill (and a cheap one at that, given the very reasonable price).

In an age where neo-analog synths are all the rage, the WS sounds like nothing else, just as it did fifteen years ago. It can get crystalline digital sounds, industrial-sounding metallic textures, warmer analog type sounds, and complex morphing timbres, but they all have that hard-to-define, distinctive "personality" that makes the WS so different. Korg's new collection of performances for the 1.6 version do a fine job of demonstrating how the addition of filter resonance enhances the WS even further. I like to use sounds that aren't being heard on hundreds of other songs played in clubs and on the Net; you put the WS in a track and it definitely stands out.

While I bought the collection for the Wavestation, I should mention that the M1 and multi-effects plugins are also very nicely done and will undoubtedly come in handy.

The only thing about the package that doesn't thrill me is the USB key copy protection. I plan to use the Legacy Collection on a laptop for gigs, and I'm concerned that the little USB dongle will end up getting dropped and lost somewhere. But I understand that software developers must do something to discourage piracy, so I guess I'll just have to be extra careful not to misplace the key.

Korg M1 - Exactly as I remembered it. 
by Gregory Child , November 2005

When I heard about the Korg Digital edition coming out I had a rush of instant nostalgia. My Korg T1 died about 4 years ago. The Korg T1 was basically an M1 with an 88-key weighted keyboard. The Digital Edition does not disappoint. The M1/T1 sound was and is a bit thin but that was the character of the beast back in the day.

The press materials pretty much describe what you're getting so I can't add much in the way of color there.

The only thing I find strange about the Digital M1 is the lack of assignability of CCs to the individual track's volume and pan. You can assign some parameters to a MIDI fader box but not these parameters. You have to individually pre-position them before working on a track. You can control the volume per track with a sequencer mixer control but you won't actually see the volume's graphics move around. And when I tried to control the pan per track with my software sequencer's mixer pan controls it did nothing to the M1's panning. Very strange given the power of computers nowadays. Maybe I missed the instructions to control those MIDI CCs in the manual but I'm pretty good at RTFM.

I found the M1 to be easy on computer power (but I own a dual 2 Gig Macintosh).

You have to use the included dongle, which I understand is a big turnoff for some users.

If you want fatter sounds you can use the Wavestation which I find to be better for pads. I already own the original Legacy collection so the included extras in the 1.5 edition of Wavestation are nice but not jawdropping.

Click here to Read the inSync Review for the Legacy Collection - Digital Edition

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