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SANKEYS IBIZA RESIDENT
DARIUS SYROSSIAN
CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT
KORG EMX-1 DRUM MACHINE
“My Korg EMX-1 is something that gives me
that particular sound I am known for when I
am programming drums and percussion for
my tracks. Personally I find really clean
totally quantised tracks really stale and they
don’t excite me, I need tracks to have some
rawness to them. Ironically, the EMX-1 does
give a very clean sound and is really tight on
the drums, unlike the days when you would
use Midi and there would always be at least
something a little out of time here or there.
But I can really manipulate drums and
percussion with this, when exporting I
actually record in manually, and make sure
something is a millisecond out of place, and
I mess with the pitch to make it crunchy.
“The EMX-1 uses a combination of PCM drum
samples and digital wave shapes for sound
generation. Basic envelope generator
controls and filter options allow the sound to
be shaped, but the real power lies in the
modulation section in the top-right-hand
corner. Here, an oscillator (LFO all the way
up to audio rate, with BPM sync option) can
be used to modulate parameters such as
pitch, filter cut-off or oscillator settings. It’s
a relatively simple but highly effective
system, and the range of sounds on offer is
phenomenal.
“I have used this so much and I always get
told I have a unique sound, and I don’t
really want to change how I work, so for
that reason I cannot live without my Korg
EMX-1.”
224 djmag.com
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The Seenth.is App is designed to keep
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