Korg N364 Manual
I am a guitarist. I know nothing about tinkly keyboard ditties, so maybe someone can help. Mrs Stone is a concert pianist and much smarter than myself, but we both have marvelled at how wonderful the Korg N364 sounds, and have ground our teeth to stumps trying to make it work.even with the instruction manual that rivals War and Peace in length - can someone on or off the list help us gett his puppy working? We want to program drums and all the fun stuff you are supposed to be able to do with it. The manual is USELESS!!
imgimages/icons/mad.gif/img Yes - i know that there are better, more user friendly keys out there.but i just blew all the $$ on the studio.Mrs Stone needs to play, or I won't get to either. Thanks for your undying support.
N364 N364 Music Workstation image source: korg.com A solid workstation based on the proven AI² technology. The Korg N364 is a keyboard that features classy, proven sounds, and so many of them! If I should pick a certain category of music the N364 is more suited for, I'd say soundtrack/ethnic.
Because while it certainly has all the usual pop/rock sounds we are used to, it also features some gorgeous ethnic instruments, and moving pads (a la Wavestation) to die for: evolving soundscapes, that absorb the listener and don't let go. This synth also features a powerful 16-track sequencer, so it's easy to compose finished songs on just this one machine. The on-board arpeggiator is a welcome addition, and while it doesn't have numerous arpeggio patterns, the ones on board are the most used anyway. The excellent effects complement the N364 very well, and give it that 'pro' touch that just makes it shine. Also, the inclusion of a floppy drive allows the user to save song and sound data on common floppy disks - a useful feature, especially for live use. And let's not forget the excellent aftertouch, that allows us to control all kinds of parameters from the dynamic keyboard of this synthesizer!
Korg N364 audio demos in mp3 The three on-board demo songs: 1. a great potpourri of pop/rock and fusion genres. a cool, impressively-sounding ethnic electronica meets Mission Impossible tune.
hip-hop, jazzy number. COMBI A Preset Combi with audio demo My comments A spectacular evolving synth pad, with tremendous low end and sparkling highs Awesome groovy Hammond B-3 organ, with just the right touch of grit. Tremendous power in this patch Typical syn vox, very used in House Realistic and full-bodied orchestral setup Techno-Dance drum kit, perfectly set up for electronic styles Incredible ethnic combination - recalling the Middle East and the marvels of the 1001 Arabian Nights! Superb evolving pad, reminiscent of Korg's own Wavestation. Another great organ jazz, very useful for jazz. Super-powerful mega analog synth, straight from the '80s!!!
Obviously refers to Oberheim OB-series. Beautiful and delicate string ensemble. Amazing patch that somehow is PERFECT for playing U2's 'With Or Without You'!!! For the NIN (Nine Inch Nails) fans Great pizzicato string patch, perfect for those '50/'60s lounge/tiki/exotica arrangements Superb amalgam of Asian ethnic instruments Incredible sound FX patch, perfect for scoring a zombie movie! Realistic and expressive saxophone lineup. Melancholic split with pad and sax.
Mega powerful '80s 'hair band' solo synth. Powerful synth setup that reminds of certain sounds used by Keith Emerson in early E.L.P. Invitation to computer science. Another excellent ethnic combi.
Ready for a Safari? Excellent sound fx Spot on rendition of those recordings of Hammond during the Stax label period in the '60s.
Delicate Medieval patch! Again, an excellent fx patch, great for scoring sci-fi movies Outstanding steel drum sound!!! Great patch, perfect for scoring soundtracks!!! COMBI B Preset Combi with audio demo My comments Beautiful grand piano.
'Sugary' strings, with plenty of expressivity. Incredible ethnic multi-sound, with a tribal choir on the left, jungle noises, and expressive African flute Realistic brass ensemble Classical choir, usable in many genres of music. Beautiful ambient combi! A great-sounding Yamaha DX-style FM electric piano. The obligatory 'Jump' patch on board. Classy 12-string guitar patch Perfect for scoring a quiet moment in a martial arts movie!!!
Powerful pipe organ in full flight! Very nice slap bass patch. Great rock 'n' roll piano, Elton John style Very nice Asian setup Cool Italian-style accordion. In this example, I'm playing an old standard from my region in Tuscany, 'Maremma Amara'. Very cool highly-produced rap/hip-hop trap set.
Beautiful synth from the '80s Hypnotic sitars Excellent version of the classic instrument, precursor to the piano. Great classical guitar, perfect for Spanish/Flamenco styles. Awesome and very useful split!!! In this example I'm playing 'Night Train', inspired by Oscar Peterson's Trio version in 'Night Train' Again, beautiful soundtrack setup More analog 80s synth beauty. Hyper-realistic Hammond organ, with the two manuals setup differently, and with a great Leslie effect. COMBI C Preset Combi with audio demo My comments Mega-evolving synth goodness!!!
Can you tell the Wavestation influence on many of this synth's patches? Fantastic mandolin and percussion setup, perfect for Latin-American or Italian songs. Beautiful delicate synth pad, with twirling cascades of sounds, and crystal snow falling all over the place! Classic synth setup, perfect for '70s 'Kosmische Musik' styles. Outstanding jazz setup: a warm, highly-expressive plucked contrabass on the left hand, and a perfectly-sampled vibraphone on the right = a player's dream!
This eclectic workstation is also great for Latin music Incredibly realistic blues harmonica patch, very expressive! 'Grandioso' means 'Grand' in Italian, and certainly this full synth patch is! More sounds suited for classical music Yet another great-sounding warm pad!!! Beautiful ambient pad, with excellent reverb and delay settings. COMBI D Preset Combi with audio demo My comments Very expressive, realistic and perfect for a Bollywood hit. Sweet: a warm jazz piano on the left, and a sweet jazz brass combo on the right.
The voices of the angels. Hyper-realistic jazz combo!!!
The name of this patch is obviously a reference to the Miller beer commercial ('It's Miller time') and the fact that this patch is perfect for playing 40's bandleader Glen Miller orchestra Big Band styles. 'Tube' bass perhaps? A nice warm analog bass/synth. Great evolving, moving pad!!! Cool analog synth and electric piano.
More soundtrack composer tools!!! This is a knockout, perfect for thriller moments!!!!!!! More sci-fi sounds, excellent! PROG A Preset Prog with audio demo My comments Sampled vocal synth, cool. Intimate, melancholic piano patch. Mega-analog resonant bass. Two awesome sampled ethnic effects.
Incredibly expressive wah-wah guitar, thanks to the on-board excellent aftertouch!!! Realistic fretless bass patch Beautiful L.A. Style piano Cool reso-synth. Here I'm also engaging the excellent on-board arpeggiator. Great '70s style OverDriven Minimoog solo sound!
The perfect pad: unobtrusive, hypnotic and just beautiful. Super clean bass, presumably with round-wound strings - jazz/fusion like. Realistic vocal ensemble!
A great trip to the '70s!! The classic combo Hohner Clavinet run through a Mutron envelope filter! Sweet sparkling pad. Very expressive bass. Beautiful Hammond patch with a jazz setting (i.e. 800000088) Cool!
Electric tube-overdriven guitar, perfect for classic rock and roll! More movie material here. Supremely techno patch!
Nice, nice Rhodes electric piano Cool synth, especially engaging the arpeggiator. Very realistic and perfectly produced contemporary drum setup. The sound designers at Korg really know how to record their drums! Feel the low end on this bass!
Very famous patch that was used in many pop / r 'n' b hits from the late nineties and early 00s! A squiggly synth bass slide. Do we still have any doubt that pads are this machine's forte?? Yep Inspired and presumably sampled from Korg's own BX-3 organ - awesome sound. PROG B Preset Prog with audio demo My comments More synth fx to die for. Oberheim-ish analog brass Highly expressive pop/jazz flute.
Is it real??? This sounds just as good as my Rhodes Powerful church organ Wow!!! This is a classic '80s chorus+delay guitar setup that was (and still is) very in vogue. Sounds like the real thing to me. Classic House thumping bass.
Here we have an old friend!! The classic Korg M1 piano Powerful!!! Yep Excellent picked mandolin. Expressive rendition of the classic Japanese instrument Incredibly realistic flugelhorn patch!!! Beautiful, ambiental child-like memories Again an old friend from the M1 days. PROG C Preset Prog with audio demo My comments This is the perfect pad.
More soundtrack composer tools. Highly realistic small string orchestra - like something the Beatles would have used. Perfectly sampled orchestral percussion. This is a really good pad synth. More thriller fx. Nice Wurlitzer electric piano, complete with tremolo. Cool;-) A great fusion synth solo sound Nice - especially adding the GREAT-SOUNDING arpeggiator Padaholic united PROG D Preset Prog with audio demo My comments Warm, gluey, epic pad Classic carillon sound Beautiful, subdued bell play.
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Another great-sounding harpsichord patch. Realistic trombone emulation;-) Great, classic New Age sound More movie soundtrack tools Yep! And to conclude, a selection from the GM bank - GM Preset Prog with audio demo My comments Excellent honky-tonk piano - Don't shoot the piano player!!! Expressive Middle-Eastern instrument Welcome to Paris!
Beautiful church choir!!! Warm, evolving. Again a perfect syn-pad! Resources:. Review in 'Keyboard magazine' Janfebmarch 198 And here are the official data from Korg: Korg's taken performance and function in affordable music workstations to an exciting new level Let's face it, a musical instrument is only as good as its sounds; and themmore the merrier.
The new N264 and N364 are absolutely brimming with 936 programs and combos based on 8MB of PCM ROM featuring 430 Multisounds and 215 drum sounds. And the N-Series sounds rely on Korg's renowned AI2 Synthesis System, the same system that's found in the 01/W and X-Series Music Workstations. Whether you're creating complex sequences or using rich layers of sound, the new N-Series with 64-note polyphony can keep up., Real-time Pattern Play and Record,lets you record and save musical phrases and ideas as patterns. You can play a pattern back by simply pressing the key you've assigned it to. The N-series has 100 RPPR pattern memory locations. Use the ones that come from the factory (we think they're pretty cool), edit them, or create your own. You can even store RPPR patterns on a floppy.