With the release of Korg Collection 3 – see below – plus UVI and Softube’s Roland Juno-106 synth emulations, as reported in these very news pages over the last couple of issues, there really is a whiff of the 80s in the air. Good job there’s an even stronger whiff of a hair-gel laden 80s special issue of Computer Music in the air too! We really can feel it, coming in the air tonight (or in four weeks actually). Yes, if you think we’re getting all nostalgic with this special issue 300 of Computer Music, where we dive back and look at making music in 1998 (see p50), then just you wait until our next issue! Spurred on by a positive tsunami of retro releases – not to mention so many kids harking back to the 80s in the popular music charts – we’re going full on 80s next month!
Before we go into details on that, let’s have a quick look over Korg’s latest update to their Collection. As you might know, this is a suite of plugins that puts some of Korg’s legendary instruments into software form. It first came out way back in 2004 featuring the Korg MS-20, Korg Polysix and Korg Wavestation. Other instruments like the Korg Mono/Poly and M1 were added and the whole suite was renamed ‘Korg Collection’.