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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Today we are finally talking about the legendary M1. This Korg workstation and 1988 treasure chest of overused sample waveforms was - and still is to this day - so mind-meltingly influential that most people wish it wasn’t.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:07 Overview Korg M-1
02:07 Synth Engine, Samples
03:04 Filter Section
03:25 Modulators
03:42 FX Section
03:51 What else? (Polyphony, Multitimbrality, Sequencer,...)
04:51 Thanks!!!
05:03 H*te Screen
05:32 Jam 1 ( Organ House )
06:29 Jam 2 ( Cheese Piano )
07:31 Finale ( Synthwave )
08:05 VERDICT