KORG 05R/W free patches, sound sets

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The sound sets and global data are included in different data formats to make loading as easy as possible for you.

You just have to play the MIDI files with a midi player. When using a music software like Steinberg Cubase you must ensure that any sysex filters are absent.
Sysex files are another common file format.

KORG 05R/W Technical info and sound demo

KORG 05R/W Technical data

05R/W Sound demo

This demo has been recorded live from a Cubase multi track midi file. Keyboard data has been recorded with a Korg M1 keyboard.
Recorded directly from the output of 05R/W. No additional effects, no overdubs and no other synthesizers were used.
This demo uses some of the advantaged capabilities of the 05R/W like pitch bending and controlling reverb depth and reverb time via the Midi track.

Korg X5DR works as 05R/W replacement, it provides everything the 05R/W does plus another sound bank and twice the polyphony.

05R/W Links

Korg - 05W SoundEditor (soundtower.com) – Software for patch management of Korg 05R/W, can also repair a corruppted configuration in the synth

Service manual für Korg 05R/W

www.synthmania.com/05r_w.htm – Technical info and a lot of demo sounds from the KORG 05R/W

Korg home page (German) – Technical info and manual of KORG 05R/W, also info about other outdated KORG synthesizers

Patchmanmusic.com – Commercial 05R/W patches designed for use with a wind controller

05R/W hardware tips

The capacitors of the KORG 05R/W are known to leak and get corrupted overt time. It is recommended to replace those capacitors.
C58, C59 (100 µF/25 V),
C85 (2200uF/25V),
C15 (470uF/16V)
C75 (220uF/25V) Some replace these capacitors with higher rated 35V.

Also an empty battery should be replaced.

Guide: Loading the patches into your synthesizer

Attention: Before loading any new sounds into your instrument you should back-up your own sounds.
You can do this by recording a MIDI data dump with a sequencer software and saving the result as a standard MIDI file (*.mid).
In the sequencer any MIDI filters must be switched off (record and play Sysex data).

Please adjust the KORG 05R/W Global menu as follows:

   - MIDI GLOBAL               CH = 1
   - MIDI-FILTERING   PRG: ena    EXCL: ena
   - PROGRAM MEMORY PROTECT: off 
   - COMBINATION MEMORY PROTECT: off

Now start recording in the sequencer.
At the instrument start sending a sysex dump ("ALL DATA") via the Global menu.
When the display shows up "completed" you can stop recording. Save the result as standard MIDI file ("mysounds.mid").

IMPORTANT:
Test integrity of the saved file before loading other sounds!
This is how you can do that. Change a letter of the last patch name (program 99). Save the changes. (The sound remains the same, only the name has changed.) Controll: Chose patch 99. Is the new name visible?

Now you can send back your data recorded previously from the sequencer back to the synthesizer. This is done by simply playing the MIDI file.
After receiving this data the name of patch 99 should be the original again. (You have to recall the patch.)

If this worked fine you can start sending new sound banks to the synthesizer in the same manner.

Sorting sound patches

In the old days I used a software called "MIDI quest" or "Sound quest" that was able to collect, sort and store sounds for various synthesizers. I do not know, whether they still exist.
Without such a software it will be very time consuming to sort the sounds inside the 05R/W (using "delete" and "store/save to" functions).

How many new sounds do you get?

The 05classics sound set contains

 
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