The Korg Legacy Collection Analog Edition 2007 is a virtual synth that emulates the hardware version of a Korg analog synth from the 1980s. If I had the money, I would hunt down the real hardware versions of these synths, but until then, these will do just fine. Yes, I would definitely make the same choice. What's even better is that the plugins are so much easier to edit, especially compared to the X5DR. After selling those off, I bought both the analog and the digital legacy collections and now I have those sounds back. I really enjoyed all the synth patches in those guys but the realistic samples (i.e. I used to own a Korg TR and a Korg X5DR module. I paid around $200 for this package and I am very happy with it. There is nothing I don't like about this plugin so far. Then I looked a little closer and saw the "edit" button and it was heaven ever since. At first glance I thought all the knobs were to tiny to operate and was very disappointed. Another thing I thought was pretty cool was the option to see the whole keyboard on your screen, or just the editable parameters. It has great organization ability and makes running different combinations of synths/effects very smooth. It includes the Mono/Poly, PolySix and M-20 modular synth, but the best part is they give you another interface to operate all three at the same time, Genius!!! I guess that options is not super important for recording, but using this plugin live, the "multi interface" is super sweet. What I like best about this plugin is you get three awesome sounding synths. I have been using this plugin for about 3 months. It will give you huge rich sounds and it never taxes my cpu (macbook 2.2ghz, 4gb ram, 320hdd). The performance on this thing is also great. So far, I have never had a single crash or any of my user presets disappear.
Yes, the software works great on my macbook with the earlier mentioned programs. This makes the whole interface less convoluted and therefore easier to use. perform, edit, global) and give you sub-categories in each.
I like how they break it down into categories (i.e. All of the parameters are right in front of you so that's nice, and the general setup/configuration is not too bad.
The manual is pretty short and sweet, but it gives you all the basic knowledge you will need to get up and running. I run ableton 8 and Logic 9 and there have been no compatibility issues so far.