Alex Juno has released a free collection of Korg DW8000 samples for Native Instruments Kontakt.
The DW8000 is one of Korg’s first digitally controlled analog hybrid synthesizers, manufactured in 1985.
Hey everyone, my name’s Alex, i’ve been a long time lurker on KVR and have downloaded some truly cracking freebies from this forum. Anyhow, I thought that it was high time I gave something back to you good people, so here it is, my DW8000 collection for Kontakt 4 (links below). It includes some of the best patches i’ve made on this great polysynth.
Included are 16 of my sounds, some pad sounds, some polysynth-ish sounds, a couple of fx and a nice monophonic unison bass sound. I took my favourite patches and then used Samplerobot to get the multisamples off the synth and into Kontakt, and then i started tweaking. The DW8000 has some annoying low hum on some of it’s patches, notable more when you press the high keys, so i used a high pass filter in Kontakt that kicks into action on the higher keys. Some of the patches have multiple velocities, however some, to save space, have had Kontakt’s own filter added and velocity mapped to it. I also added some delay or reverb where appropriate. I think they sound better in Kontakt than on the synth now!
Free Korg DW8000 samples for NI Kontakt are available for free download via KVR Forums.
Audio Demo
Check out the Alex Juno Korg DW8000 pack audio demo:
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Here’s a list of patches included in the pack:
- Choir of the damned: Nasty, Melotronish, Alien Choir Sound…Disturbing!
- Dramatic Strings: It’s all in the name!
- Funk Long/Short: Two versions of a funky clav/polysynth hybrid sound, sounds VERY DW8000.
- Intense: Some more dramatic Strings
- Little Pitch Env: Timpani/Tom+Synth sound, very dramatic
- Little Pitch Env2: Cute Digisynth Sound
- Long Env: Seriously long filter envelope with lots of resonance, sliding down.
- Lovely Strings: My fave string sound from the DW
- Octave Strings: Similar, just in octaves
- Phaseord: Phased pad
- Pitch Env Vox: Very Digital and maybe annoying digivox sound
- Rezo: Big Ass Unison Bass with multiple velocities sampled
- Strat: Guitarish type pad
- Whee: Reminds me of a wibbly effect in an old synth funk record.
- Whovian: Big filter sweep up, has an early Dr Who flavour
Links
Download Free Korg DW8000 Samples: click here
Alex Juno On SoundCloud: click here
