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What exactly is the moss expansion board? What is it suppose to do and is it worth getting?
MusickMan
Secret of the lost Beat
it's a six voice polyphonic version of the Z1 a cool sounding VA and physical modelling synth, in my opinion it's really nice
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The Moss board gives you a subset of the capabilities of the Z1, which I have and is a classic synth. The MOSS board will give your Karma or Triton the capability of a true digital synthesizer to create your own sounds from scratch, whereas otherwise they just manipulate whatever samples you have onboard, installed in ROMs or sampled yourself. This technology has been aclaimed for its abilities to emulate other sounds (my Z1 can sound exactly like a trumpet, I kid you not). I do not know how well the moss board works in comparison to the Z1, though I imagine there may be some limits due to the different hardware interface (the Z1 has an x/y touchpad which is amazing in assisting in performance adjustments which you don't get on the other boards).
I would definately add the unit if I were you, I would think it would add a lot of power to your unit.
Here are a few quotes from an Electronic Musician review of the triton studio:
"If you crave a Triton and need something resembling authentic analog, I'd recommend adding the MOSS board."
"The EXB-MOSS board ($600) is a cool piece of hardware. Its synthesis architecture is completely different from the rest of the Triton. It has both analog-style oscillators and physical models — electric piano, brass, plucked string, and so on. If you've never heard a physical model of a trumpet before, you're in for a treat: when you use the Pitch Bend, you'll hear the player's embouchure “break” in a way that a sample playback synth simply can't duplicate. The richness of the plucked string and electric piano models is also sweet. And the shimmering glitter of the Acid Rain Program, which uses a comb filter, is quite striking.
The MOSS board has been around for a few years (as far as I can tell, it hasn't been updated since it debuted in the Korg Z1), and its six-note polyphony isn't exactly a cutting-edge spec. To layer a MOSS sound with a standard sound in a Combi, you have to tell the Combi how many MOSS voices to make available. That makes sense, but I was stumped for a few minutes because the MOSS board didn't seem to work in Combi mode; then I discovered that the default setting is zero voices."
I would definately add the unit if I were you, I would think it would add a lot of power to your unit.
Here are a few quotes from an Electronic Musician review of the triton studio:
"If you crave a Triton and need something resembling authentic analog, I'd recommend adding the MOSS board."
"The EXB-MOSS board ($600) is a cool piece of hardware. Its synthesis architecture is completely different from the rest of the Triton. It has both analog-style oscillators and physical models — electric piano, brass, plucked string, and so on. If you've never heard a physical model of a trumpet before, you're in for a treat: when you use the Pitch Bend, you'll hear the player's embouchure “break” in a way that a sample playback synth simply can't duplicate. The richness of the plucked string and electric piano models is also sweet. And the shimmering glitter of the Acid Rain Program, which uses a comb filter, is quite striking.
The MOSS board has been around for a few years (as far as I can tell, it hasn't been updated since it debuted in the Korg Z1), and its six-note polyphony isn't exactly a cutting-edge spec. To layer a MOSS sound with a standard sound in a Combi, you have to tell the Combi how many MOSS voices to make available. That makes sense, but I was stumped for a few minutes because the MOSS board didn't seem to work in Combi mode; then I discovered that the default setting is zero voices."