Korg M1 Famous Songs and Sounds

[@linnamuuf]

Yamaha DX-7, Korg M1 and Roland D-50: there you go - 98% of hit song sounds right there!

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh yes 🙌

[@pestaneira]

Love It.

[@daeone1514]

Romplers 4 ever!!

[@bertpierey3655]

And some moogs, emus and oberheims.. great time for real music

[@carloko08]

yep, the great three, Yamaha, Korg, Roland

[@blastofo]

I couldnt help but start singin, "She's just like you and me, but she's homeless". These tones are right on the money.

[@NicolasMelis]

😁🙌🎹

[@F0CKSTR0T]

no no, slick back

[@OriginalRaveParty]

With a DX7 and a Korg M1, you can make 70% of the music I grew up on (without drums). Add in a JP8000, a Prophet 5, a TB-303 and a MiniMoog and you can make most of the rest.

[@NicolasMelis]

True !!

[@calle68]

Roland D50, TR 909 and TR08 are missing, just to mention a few.

[@pumpum800]

...and a JD800 ;)

[@Ultimo51]

and with the VST plugins of these instruments you save space in your home studio 😅🎹🎶

[@ckatheman]

Add in the D50

[@prattpt6]

M1 was a legend, it put KORG on the top of keyboards

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🙌

[@telmnstr]

Have a Wavestation EX and just have never fallen in love with it.

[@herrbonk3635]

I remember trying it out in the late 80s, in a local store. But it looked so increadably boring that I didn't want it. (Compared to the old Prophet 5 and such.)

[@klefusmcdonald2644]

The Intro to queen’s don’t try so hard hit me with a flood of emotions, we miss you Farrohk.

[@MRFThorne]

Great to have included the Queen tracks in there from "Innuendo". The Universe" patch (for"Don't Try So Hard") was truly magical.

[@NicolasMelis]

Gotta love Queen! 🎵

[@CocktailFridays]

Dude man, that Robin S tune right off the bat! Show me Love indeed.. Korg M1 was put on this planet to give us that iconic bassline.

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹🎵

[@Curious_Skeptic]

M1, truly a solid board that could still keep up with sound quality! I remember trading up from Ensoniq SQ80 to an M1. Holy cow. LOL. Instead of sampling and chasing that pure and clean sound, it was all right there with so much more polyphony. Sounds at a click instead of loading up disks? My first REAL quality workstation. Who remembers the Roland U220? That was another eye opening toy! Those days were so much fun experiencing the revolution of affordable home studio gear that the pro's were using! A love of synths that continues 40 years later!

[@NicolasMelis]

So many great machines 🎹

[@PatternRecognitionMusic]

U220 was a real sleeper of a ROMpler - you could dive deep and really tweak up some sounds with a little patience.

[@philkellr]

As a 18y old I went into the shop, powered on Korg M1 and it would play the Universe sound (last one in the video). I was hooked and immediately spent all my money.

[@NicolasMelis]

I can imagine :)

[@markusoz1660]

75% of 90's House use this synth!!! 🎧😁👌

[@ruk2023--]

25% still does.

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹🎵

[@NicolasMelis]

😁

[@gameon2000]

120%

[@jaimeh2o11olaya4]

I wanted one in the eighties when I was broke. Broke my heart. Well played buddy.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙏

[@ubiased23]

I've been thinking about you! Ugh what a hit! I can't believe it was done with Korg M1.

[@susancorgi]

M1 looks even more modern and beautifully minimalized then all synths today in 2024.

[@panamaJ]

@@susancorgi a lot of menu diving

[@alessiolaplaca7326]

@@susancorgi absolute i agree!

[@NicolasMelis]

Well said :)

[@marguskiis7711]

@@susancorgi ultra boring

[@marceloacosta1742]

@@marguskiis7711 Espero que no estes insultando al sintetizador m1😒

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Oh, and you are one of the only players I've ever seen absolutely nail the performance of Ride on Time.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks 🙏 😁

[@logicalblackman8228]

1:57, why I stayed. Knew I would hear it, based on a previous patch. You NAILED it!!

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 😁🙏

[@dazzerman189]

We had a M1 at college in our sound studio. Amazing synth. We had a UMI Sequencer working it!

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh wow cool !!

[@zycieto-iniejei-bajasubaru7499]

Sounds of the end of 80's & Early 90's

[@NicolasMelis]

It sure does

[@junkshopbeats9188]

An M1 and an S1000. That really ushered in the 'made a hit dance record in a bedroom' era of the early 90s.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🙌

[@CJMusic2]

George Michael's used the M1 piano for the song 'Cowboys and Angels' - it's so prominent and fits the song brilliantly. I used to own the T3, the 'turbo-charged' M1. Those were the days!

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh didn’t find any info about this one when i was searching for M1 songs! Thanks for the info

[@CJMusic2]

@@NicolasMelis I don't know if there's any officail info on it, but if you listen to the song it's so obviously the M1 piano sound.

[@AC_Milan1899]

The design man wow, still looks amazing today

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth 🎹

[@MuzikJunky]

M1 is the classic sound of house music! Peace.

[@NicolasMelis]

Well said

[@Psychlist1972]

If you search for hte musicradar article "Which synth was used to create the Seinfeld slap bass sound" they point out that it's not the M1 or the 360 Systems MIDI Bass, but instead a set of processed samples. The video shows him playing it on a Kurzweil.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes, I did search and watched the video where he plays it on a Kurzweil. However, I’ve also read that he actually sampled the M1 sound, among others, to create that sound and played it on the Kurzweil. While I’m not 100% sure about this, the sound on the M1 does sound close to my ears, so I included it in the list. Plus, it was fun to play!:)

[@Psychlist1972]

@@NicolasMelis No worries. In the article that also showed the video, he said it was an actual slap bass, highly compressed etc. No mention of M1. And you played it well :)

[@CCCBeaumont]

@@Psychlist1972 Well he’s misremembering, because that was obviously M1.

[@henrikpetersson3463]

@@CCCBeaumontNo its not. Listen to the actual thing and you’ll hear that they are quite different.

[@ericBcreator]

I couldn't afford an M1 back then but still own the X3 I bought instead! The disk drive started to fail 2 years so I replaced it with a USB version and that gave access to even more sounds so it is still kicking hard!

[@NicolasMelis]

Never played a X3 but from what i saw online seems great !

[@ontherhodes8088]

I love it!!!! Especially the Queen songs.

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad to hear! Thank you 🙏

[@Eric_In_SF]

It always cracks me up when people commenting that they’re amazed that there are presets in a hit song. Uh , you do know it’s precisely the reason these devices are made and have good sounds so that people use them lol

[@tommytomtomt]

@@Eric_In_SF Has nothing to do with that. It's the fact that peoare amazed because a lot of artists make most of their own sounds up and a lot of people try to replicate them so when they hear something, they're amazed that it's actually not altered. I'm just a basic stock preset.

[@elias1996gabriel]

El piano del Korg M1 es simplemente hermoso

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🎹

[@hangslow]

CeCe Peniston - Finally was an absolutey wicked cover. The Korg m1 was born for those common tone house style progressions! 2:54

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🙌

[@bnjmnwst]

I went to the store in 1997 to buy an M1, but they had been discontinued. So I bought a Trinity ProX, instead. What a machine!

[@bnjmnwst]

@DorisDay-lw4xs Yes! Those are the things I loved about it, as well. The sequencer, with the touchscreen, was light years ahead. I picked it up very quickly.

[@NicolasMelis]

Never played a Trinity yet :)

[@CM_STILL_PLAYING]

Dude!! That Crystal Waters is AWESOME!!!❤

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🎵🎹

[@groovedealerfeaturing-ashl6476]

Omar's 'There's nothing like this'? HUGE omission, practically every sound on it is an M1.

[@naebeltistgallant776]

Klasse Sound aus den Ende der 80 er Jahren.

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹🎹🎵

[@dasnutnock6408]

Londonbeat! Great chords 👍

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it!

[@csharp57]

Loved my M1. It went overseas with me during Operation Desert Storm. I have a replacement but not as good as my original one.

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh cool

[@allenhuffman]

I didn’t know it was used in those songs. The M1 was the keyboard I wanted after hearing a demo in a Houston music store. I was never able to afford one.

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth

[@svensvensson8102]

The nostalgia! 😎 The M1 was my first synth, had to work damn hard for that one. It was awesome and soo cool.

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth 🎹

[@ArexSant]

Oh my god! So many good songs from Queen's Innuendo on this keyboard!! amazing!

[@goblacklist]

merci Nicolas :) je viens de réviser " show must go on " et d'autres morceaux d ailleurs : )

[@umitanonymous3400]

Great compilation

[@NicolasMelis]

Many thanks!🎹

[@salazarock]

90's .. always on my mind

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹🎵

[@edobette]

Una piú bella dell'altra, che strumento eccezionale 😮

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it 🎹

[@supremeduff]

Amazing

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks 🙏

[@jeananto]

Nice! But for the "Show must go on " Queen use "Orchestra" preset on the M1, not symphonic

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes i found it out after i made the video :)

[@fischek]

beautiful sounds

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 😊

[@TudorNeve]

thanks for the preset names and for showing the notes

[@NicolasMelis]

No problem!

[@Arpeggeric]

Nice ambiance with this sounds. I like how it got snappy at the end.

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it! 🎹

[@chebsimocanadi156]

bravo mon frère j'adore korg M1 et j'en est un vive la music ❤❤❤❤❤

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹❤️🙏

[@pianoandwhisky]

Classic sound. I still have my Korg T2.

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹❤️

[@OnlyHumanYT]

RIDE ON TIME MENTIONED 🗣️‼️🔥

[@NicolasMelis]

😁

[@lucioca]

I have one. With original hard case. I love it. But the display are a little dark. I know that I can change but I have fear to do it. The most iconic workstation in the modern music history. This keyboard is the father of all the next. The great Joe Zawinul of Wether Report was a great fan as the same of Rick Wakeman and the master Keith Emerson. Thank you for this video.

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth! Glad you like the video! Thank you 🙏

[@СергейКалашников-щ2й]

@NicolasMelis 👍👍👍❤️

[@rmessier3]

Well done! Madonna's Vogue: the piano riff is clever! (trickier than it looks)

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes thats true… :)

[@JorgeCruz-o5i]

whaaaaaaaaat amazing sounds !!

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like them

[@bouledeberlin8741]

I thought it was a bit weird to have Queen between all these Eurodance hits, but then came Aerosmith. On a side note, I think I00 Universe is also used in The Age of Love's The Age of Love.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[@junosix2453]

Ride on Time was apparently a piano sound from an Akai sample disk and not the M1

[@Expectaz]

This is awesome!! The M1 is such a classic and you know how to handle it

[@NicolasMelis]

It really is! Thanks 🙏

[@DavidSmith-ne1yb]

The M1, DX-7 and Roland D-50 made 99 percent of the songs from 1985-1994. Those were the board everyone used.

[@NicolasMelis]

Yes 🙌

[@mihas101]

Yes if you own these what else would you need. 😊

[@Man_with_Beard_2]

Great sounds still have mine

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹❤️

[@Mandy-Lane]

last patch was beautiful

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it :)

[@DomSigalas]

That’s awesome!!!🙌🏼

[@NicolasMelis]

Hey Dom! Thanks for stopping by 🙌🎹

[@ladrodellabuonanotte]

I still have my Korg M1ex, wonderful keyboard and synth. I think the simplicity of old keyboards allows you to really appreciate them. To play the current ones you need a computer engineering course.

[@evgenycostygin9333]

Зато делать аранжировку во встроенном секвенсоре - то ещё занятие, особенно учитывая навигацию по этому маленькому монохромному дисплею ;))) М1 - это не просто очередные электрические клавиши из 90-х, это ещё и полноценная рабочая станция-аранжировщик

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹🙌

[@sipinbar]

I still have the Korg01 WFD I’m pretty sure it was before this one Basically, the same absolute machine

[@NicolasMelis]

Actually the 01 wfd was released after the M1! The m1 first release was in 1988 and the Wfd 1991 ! Thats what i found on google :)

[@sipinbar]

@@NicolasMelis Thanks for that. I always thought the M1 was a newer version 😊

[@kabman70]

Very cool. The piano intro for Queensryche's "Best I Can" sounds like an M1 too. I used to own the M1+1

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you liked it! Will check it out! Thanks 🙏

[@daytime5590]

I remember I owned DX-7,M1lack,D70 and 01. My era of synsethis

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synths 🎹

[@jami.m7074]

Great playing. I had an M1 for a while but i had to sell it to get a Roland JV-80, and at that time i could only afford one synth. I sold my Roland D-70 to afford the M1😅

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks man!! I ve borrowed this one from a friend to make a video😁

[@dalb78]

Great! Tks for sharing!

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks for watching!

[@TopJazzCat]

Every time I hear the "Gypsy Woman" song I can't help but to think about the In Living Color sketch with Kim Wayans.

[@radiosiesta]

Perfect Korg!

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@AllenJuddMusic]

Spot on ..wow

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you!🙏

[@JSL6656]

Love it

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙏

[@arcaneforce8880]

Wow. Total respect. i really enjoyed listening Had me haes phone with the screen off while at work. At points i thought ibwas just listening to a dj mix on decks. Thst last track was epic.

[@frank_mm]

Great synth, amazing skills 🔝

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙌🎹

[@mauricerijsdijk2472]

Reminds me a lot of the great sounds my Korg X3 offered. This brings back a great amount of memories😊 Love the pic of Mr. Wonder in the background btw

[@NicolasMelis]

Never played an X3! Love Stevie 🎹🎵

[@mauricerijsdijk2472]

@@NicolasMelis You should if you get the chance to...magnificent synth from the early '90s....I'm sure you'll love it!

[@NicolasMelis]

@@mauricerijsdijk2472 will try to find one :)

[@martyd8175]

Still sounds amazing. Anybody remember "global dumping" lol

[@NicolasMelis]

😁

[@frankcisde2338]

I still have mine. Great job (I love gipsy woman)

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth 🎹

[@Nico622001]

J'ai toujours le mien, il fonctionne toujours aussi bien. J'ai désormais environ 900 sons et combinaisons en stock. Il existe aussi en VST :)

[@NicolasMelis]

Is the Vst close to the original sound wise?

[@Nico622001]

@@NicolasMelis, Yes, the VST have the Universal Sound Bank also, an Now, a optional Card Général Midi (GM) exist for the M1 in Hardware, but more expansive for me :/ ( more than 300 Euro)

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

My second keyboard after my DW8000.

[@NicolasMelis]

Dw8000 also what a great synth

[@herrbonk3635]

I actually recognized the first two!

[@DerekTJ]

Great series

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it :)

[@SoulVision1111]

Had an O1-W Pro years ago

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth 🎹

[@mattjarrett01]

This is great. The Piano parts in N-Joi - Anthem are an M1 also.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you and thanks for the info!! 🎹

[@braien25980]

Very good, thank you for that. What reverb do you use for the video? Regards…

[@NicolasMelis]

Valhalla vintage Verb

[@MemphisMike901]

I still have my Korg 01W/Pro !

[@SoulVision1111]

I had one for many years ..purchased when they were new

[@MemphisMike901]

@@SoulVision1111 i remember I had a Roland D70 i thought was so great. Then a Buddy brought in his Korg 01W. I was blown away. Well, then shortly I had an 01W/Pro. LoL

[@NicolasMelis]

Great synth 🎹

[@andybladen9284]

The piano in this is amazing !I can’t play it as well as you do it’s all in the timing it’s very much got that Bruce Hornsby feel about it you should cover one 2 many down town that’s another great piano solo

[@NicolasMelis]

Legendary Piano :) will check the piano solo thanks 🙏

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

This video is definitely a good resource. I’ve heard many of these songs many times each when they were new, and I didn’t know the titles.

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you! I’m glad you found the video helpful.

[@2407ewan]

Spot on, well played

[@NicolasMelis]

Thank you 🙏

[@buzzfunk]

If you were a musician in the 90s - everyone had a M1 at some point. Not sure what happened to mine.....

[@NicolasMelis]

I was a teen in the 90s, my first synth was a Roland JX10:)

[@Keystuddio]

Супер инструмент!

[@NicolasMelis]

🙌🎹

[@SidAlienTV]

Nice playing too. I've got a M1 in my studio, but the factory sounds are not very inspiring aside from 10 or 12 of them. What do you recommend me? Should I buy some external cards to give it a boost?

[@NicolasMelis]

The sounds in the video are factory presets :)

[@SidAlienTV]

@NicolasMelis Really? Maybe I must reset mine...... I am a guitarist, play very awful keyboards but I made my parts with MIDI. I found my M1 on eBay very cheap and bought it for my studio. Of course I've got the VSTi version in my computer too, but the real thing had something else.

[@NicolasMelis]

@SidAlienTV try to use some external effects too, maybe that will do the trick :)

[@Scrumper66]

Excellent synth that has dethroned the Yamaha DX7. This synth is very dynamic and is easy to program! It still sounds great! I have 3 at home (1 in service) and 2 that I repaired for a ridiculous price. Solid construction, medium weight, but still up to date with its brothers Wavestation, O1W... Thanks for this demo, Nicolas! Good sounds, good songs! 😊

[@NicolasMelis]

Glad you like it! Thank you 🙏🎹🎵

[@PacifierMusic]

Wish I never sold mine. I loved that thing

[@katharsis3754]

@@PacifierMusic I know the feeling 😖😖😖

[@NicolasMelis]

I know the feeling too.. sold mine long ago and borrowed this one from a friend to make the video :)

[@einsamerschutze]

Was immer vergessen wird ist der Sound „Lore“, welcher bei fast jeder Folge X-Files genutzt wird. 👍

[@NicolasMelis]

Oh yes! Forgot that one!

[@marcsmith3739]

I had one for sure

[@NicolasMelis]

Everyone who are involved with synths had an M1 for a while or they still do :)

[@OperationChicago]

GOOD JOB MAN

[@NicolasMelis]

Thanks :)🙏

[@francotonini6446]

Om 🎉 grande 🎹🌟🎹👍

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹❤️

[@WAZA___]

Gary Numan also used alot of the presets..the one he used the most was called beauty.

[@NicolasMelis]

Where can i find this preset?

[@WAZA___]

@@NicolasMelis It's on the M1.

[@vanderoliveira]

Nostalgia...

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹❤️

[@CoolDudeClem]

I never knew the slap bass from Seinfeild was on an M1!

[@NicolasMelis]

Not 100 sure about that, but the composer who has a video playing it on Kurzweil said somewhere that he sampled an M1 among others for that sound… so i thought i can include it in the list

[@staffgaroth]

I still have mine. I still love it :-) But changing the lithium battery every few years is bugging me, re-loading all sounds via MIDI is basically easy, but ends in an ordeal every time :-/

[@NicolasMelis]

Unfortunately the M1 is not mine, i ve borrowed it from a friend to check it out :) its great

[@Freizeitschranzer]

What software do I need? Can I do this with a yamaha p45 too?

[@ibanez100full]

Anos 90❤

[@NicolasMelis]

🎹🎵

[@Dathom1986]

I recognised, I've been thinking about you ..ride on time , and few others😊