Ive been listening to its demos a bit over last few days. I think its starting to grow on me a little - certaionly alot of flexibility in there.

I use to hate the Nord Lead sounds as well - but that is seriously growing on me as well to the point where I keep trying to stretch the TI to sound alot brighter :)

Shame about the Radias price...

And it may have gotten a little more interesting.
Hmm, wonder if you can expand the memory to make space for more recording??

Check out the new full video on SonicState.
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2677

Gets more interesting - I did like that PCM sound he played :)

Actually - for Korg, theres alot to like about the Radias - I usually hate Korg stuff :)

$1699/$1799 - Probably translate to ?1499/?1599 in the UK - Ugh - expensive.

I had a look at the screen shots that someone posted of the editors - I get the feeling there a quite a bit misisng from them that you can do on the hardware.

The Radias certainly is very interesting. The analogue modelling comes from the high-definition Oasys AL-1 module, which is meant to be free from aliasing in the upper reg's.

What's also cool is the Radias can store and use formant/vox samples, I think I remember reading as much as 16 x sets of 7.5 second samples, which can be manipulated, vocoded, etc. Wonder if you can record via line-in, using normal samples? ie. not formant?

I think Jerry at KorgUSA said the OS can be updated via USB so the possibility of Korg upgrading/tweaking the OS is there.

Yup I'mn looking forward to hearing/reading about the formant record more. It depends on the formant quality to how well normal samples wil translate. If the memory is expandable then it may be a very cool little box indeed.

But....

Pretty damn pricey. :cry:

I take it all back...

I just seen the UK prices for these things - they are CHEAP!!

1099UKP for keyboard, 999UKP for the rack.

Im getting tempted ;)

WHo in the UK is distributing the Radias for that amount? You got a link?

OT - im pissed Turnkey have marked up the MEK to ?850. Fuckers...

DS

I did a UK only google search for it after someone in the UK mentioned there was arriving soon:

http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail...ckCode=ST00495
http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~...-R~ID~4637.asp
http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~...-K~ID~4633.asp

New pic:



(pic found by Francois on the www.KorgForums.com )

Incidently there's a forum section on the Radias.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpB...forum.php?f=45

The Korg bigwigs post on those forums too.

Jerry Kovarsky (Korg USA) say they'll release some more screenshots soon.

For anyone who cares Digital Village have stock of the Radias rack version in.

http://www.dv247.com/invt/31631/

Mine shipped today and should be here tomorrow. Will post some pics / sounds.....mebby ;)

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