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AKIRA ISHIGURU

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The ability to appreciate individual sample collections is something samplenerd.com is rather proud of.   With that in mind, I humbly present to you the Akira collection featured on the KORG M1/R program cards.

Graduated in 1984 from Kunitachi Music college with a bachelor of arts in music composition.  Born in Tokyo in 1960 he has been playing piano since he was 4 years old.  During his years in college he composed “Multiplied scale I – III” for the art festival sponsored by the agency cultural affairs.  Since graduating he worked as a freelance musician, programmer, composer and arranger including working with such well known Japanese acts Akira Jimbo and Tetsuo Sakuri, the well known Japanese multi-percussionist “Pecker”  and his own Jazz Fusion Band “The Zi-SPACE.”

KORG.

Worthy of a review all by itself the sounds of this M1 VST has samples of a striking quality.

Born July 13th 1960 Akira Ishiguru has built an impressive working musician portfolio.  With his work appearing in many forms of entertainment, such as the Sega Saturn game Momotarou Douchuuki (Hudson 1997) which saw only a Japan release, and was based on a board game to appearing on 14+ studio albums!

You can follow him here

https://m.facebook.com/akira.ishiguro.3/

Founded in April 1926 the college still stands and was formally known as Tokyo Koto Ongaku Gakuin (Tokyo Conservatory of Music). 

In fact at the time of Akira’s graduation the college had only two years previously completed the Concert Hall, holding 1290 seats.

Image shows the concert hall of the Kunitachi College of Music in Japan. As featured in the article "Akira Ishiguru"  by samplenerd.com
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The sounds 🔊

The KORG Program cards were always issued in two’s. One had the sample recording (PCM) and the other the program data that the M1/R Workstation would read.

Image shows the "Akira" soundbank of the KORG Akira program card by KORG.  As featured in the article "Akira Ishiguru" by samplenerd.com

Aside from being an opportunity to have a wonder around a wonderful library of sounds, don’t be fooled into thinking that that’s all it is. 

There is a pretty deep quality to these sounds and coupled with a very decent synth engine available on the hardware (and software version) you could have quite a lot of fun in engineering them to meet today’s standards. 

KORG M1 VST 🖥️

credit: KORG.com

The Korg Collection M1 V2 is an upgrade of the M1 software from 2005, and has been refined for modern production environments. We added the much requested high-resolution and scalable interface. The preset sounds include all 3,300 programs, including those from the expansion ROM cards, giving the legendary sounds of the M1 through the latest software as a plug-in.

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Image shows a screenshot of the M1 VST Program Cards by KORG. 
As featured in the article "Akira Ishiguru" by samplenerd.com
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Currently priced – as of this publication:

$49

SERIOUSLY? $49! Get it here 👉 https://korg.shop/software/korg-collection-series/korg-collection-m1.html

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