IS IT WORTH KEEPING?

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RYCHUS
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IS IT WORTH KEEPING?

Post by RYCHUS »

HEY, WORLD! ONE LOVE...

I NEED TO KNOW IF MY ORIGINAL 61 TRITON MUSIC WORKSTATION/SAMPLER CAN BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL/SOME OF THE NEWEST METHODS OF FILE TRANSFERS, MEMORY ALLOCATIONS, AND COMPUTER ACCESS OF THE NEWER MODELS, OR SHOULD I JUST TRADE UP THE UNIT? ANY HELPFUL ADVICE WILL DO.

THANKS, KORG WORLD!!!!!!! :lol:
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Post by GregC »

it is technology from 1998

you gotz some limitations, sir
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Post by GregC »

it is technology from 1998

you gotz some limitations, sir
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Post by McHale »

I say keep it for several reasons.

1. Unless you're going to get a REALLY good offer for it, you're going to lose money.

2. There's nothing wrong with it. I have no intentions of dumping my Triton and find it does some things better than my M3.

3. Assuming you own or will own a much newer synth, you have one that will work as a spare if your main ever dies and you can take the Triton to practices, shady neighborhoods, etc.

4. You know it VERY well...

There's things I prefer my Triton over my M3 on and use the Triton daily.

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Current Korg Gear: KRONOS 88 (4GB), M50-73 (PS mod), RADIAS-73, Electribe MX, Triton Pro (MOSS, SCSI, CF, 64MB RAM), SQ-64, DVP-1, MEX-8000, MR-1, KAOSSilator, nanoKey, nanoKontrol, 3x nanoPad 2, 3x DS1H, 7x PS1, FC7 (yes Korg, NOT Yamaha).
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Post by Matty_Boy »

There are some limitations with 10+ year old technology, but nothing insurmountable. The main thing you need is a SCSI board and a good storage medium. And by that I don't mean ZIP disks (!), but compact flash or somthing similar.
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Post by Gargamel314 »

you'll never have USB ports, m-LAN, or compact flash, but MIDI i'm sure will never disappear. That's the important one. If you can get the SCSI expansion, then you're set... you just need that way of storing files bigger than 1.44 MB.

M3 and M50 have their editors via USB, but there are editor/librarian programs out for the Triton, too, which use MIDI cables to communicate w/ the Triton.
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Post by The SOJ »

After nearly 10 years I still use mine.
Not as much as I did though (I do more soft-synth stuff nowadays).

My wife still uses it as her main writing/composing tool though.


We have the SCSI port & zip drive, so saving files is not an issue.
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