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Korg is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. Korg is owned by Yamaha Corporation.

Company history

Founded in 1962 in Japan by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai, Korg was originally known as ''Keio Electronic Laboratories'' because its fledgling offices were located near the Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai. Before founding the company, Kato ran a nightclub. Osanai, a Tokyo University graduate and noted accordionist, regularly performed at Kato's club accompanied by a Wurlitzer rhythm machine. Unsatisfied with the rhythm machine, Osanai convinced Kato to finance his efforts to build a better one. The company's first product, released in 1963, was an electro-mechanical rhythm device called the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm machine Donca matic DA-20. Buoyed by the success of the DA-20, Keio released a solid-state version of the Rhythm machine, the Donca matic DE-20, in 1966. In 1967, Kato was approached by Fumio Mieda, an engineer who wanted to build keyboards. Impressed with Mieda's enthusiasm, Kato asked him to build a prototype and 18 months later Mieda returned with a programmable organ. Keio sold the organ under the name ''Korg'', made from combining ''keio'' with ''organ''. Keio's organ products were successful throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s but, concerned about the competition from other big organ manufacturers, Kato decided to use the organ technology to build a keyboard for the then-niche synthesizer market. Keio's first synthesizer, the Mini-Korg, was thus released in 1973. Following on the success of the Mini-Korg, Keio released a number of budget-minded synthesizers throughout the 1970s and 1980s under the name Korg. In 1989, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg's stock. The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued

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    Korg M1


    The Korg M1 was the world's first music workstation keyboard and is the best selling digital keyboard of all time. The Korg M1 allowed a musician to produce complete musical arrangements using no external hardware since it contained an embedded MIDI sequencer. Prior to the arrival of the Korg M1, the Yamaha DX7 and the Roland D-50 were the best-selling digital synthesizers.

  • http://www.vintagesynth.org/korg/m1.shtml Vintage Synth Explorer A photograph and some technical details. Category:Synthesizers

    Korg Triton


    The Korg Triton is a workstation synthesizer featuring digital sampling and sequencing created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator. They are available in several models and various upgrade configurations.

    The Tritons

    All Tritons are based on the so-called "Classic" Triton. The "Classic" Triton was named "Pro" when configured with 76 keys and "Pro X" with 88 keys. Otherwise its functions and features were the same. The Triton Studio could be fitted with an optional hard drive and CD-R/W drive. All models except the Triton Rack and KARMA are available in 61, 76 and 88-key configurations. They can also be upgraded with increased sample RAM as well as Triton expansion boards for additional sounds. The Triton Rack was not a keyboard-based synthesizer, rather it was a rack-mountable model, requiring a stand-alone keyboard to control it via MIDI. The Triton "Classic" and Studio boasted touch screen capabilities. The Le, KARMA, and Rack, however, used a more conventional display. The Korg KARMA was released in 2001 with the Triton synthesis technology but without the sampling functionality. It instead included the more specialised KARMA music system. It was only available in a 61-key version. In 2004 Korg released the Triton Extreme, which boasted many of the features of the Studio models plus the addition of many previous Triton expansion boards, giving it a broad range of sound. Also featured in the Triton Extreme was Valve Force circuitry, allowing for a warmer, tube amp-like sound. Unlike the previous Tritons, which were white-silver, the Extreme boasted a deep blue color. Like the Triton "Classic" and Studio, the Triton Extreme includes a touch screen interface, along with the usual knobs and buttons. The Korg Triton line may be seen as the direct descendants of the previous Korg Trinity line of workstations. They are aesthetically and functionally very similar. The Trinity had similar naming conventions with the Triton Classic,

    Korg Oasys


    The Korg Oasys is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005 featuring a 76 or 88-key keyboard and Korg's''OASYS'' (Open Architecture Synthesis Studio) technology. Unlike previous hardware workstations and synthesizers by Korg, Oasys is implemented in custom software operating on a custom Linux operating system and is designed to be arbitrarily expandable in software, with functionality limited only by its hardware interface and speed of its processor. The OASYS is the second Korg workstation to include the KARMA technology that first appeared in the Korg KARMA

    Korg KARMA


    The Korg KARMA music workstation was released in 2001 as a specialised member of the Korg Triton family. Unlike most other Korg workstation names, the KARMA name is rendered in capitals as an acronym for the Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music Architecture. KARMA was developed by Stephen Kay as a system to generate complex musical phrases and passages in realtime to expand the capabilities of single performer. Unlike traditional synthesizer arpeggiators, KARMA phrases can evolve as parameters such as rhythmic complexity, patterns, and velocity are changed by the performer. KARMA technology has now appeared in a second Korg workstation, the Korg OASYS. As a member of the Triton family, the Korg KARMA uses the same HI sample-based synthesis techniques as the other Triton workstations and uses the same expansion ROMs and can be upgraded with the MOSS modelling synthesizer module.

    External link

    http://www.karma-lab.com/ Stephen Kay's KARMA website

    Korg Poly-800


    The Korg Poly-800 is a synthesizer released by Korg in 1983. Its initial list price of $795 made it the first fully programmable synthesizer that sold for less than $1000. It featured a 49 key non-velocity sensitive keyboard, two buttons for data entry, and a joystick controller, which could modulate the DCO pitch or the VCF. Though the Poly-800 had MIDI, it did not feature MIDI sysex functionality, and patches had to be backed up to cassette tape. It had 8-voice polyphony with two DCOs per voice, one analog lowpass VCF, three envelope generators, a noise generator, an LFO, and a chorus effect. It also sported a built in sequencer. The Poly-800 could be run off of batteries and had guitar strap pegs, allowing a performer to wear it like a guitar. About a year after the Poly-800 was introduced, a keyboardless, rackmount version, called the EX-800, was released, adding MIDI sysex capability. After production of the original keyboard ended in 1985, the enhanced Poly-800 MkII was released. It featured a digital delay instead of a chorus effect, and included MIDI sysex functionality. It was produced until 1987.

    Modifications

    The low price for a used unit (in the 1990s it fell to under $200) and partial analog design of the Poly-800 made it perfect for modification by hobbyists. To add MIDI sysex functionality to the original keyboard, the EX-800's ROM chip can replace the Poly-800's ROM chip. Knobs to control the frequency and resonance of the VCF can also be added. There is also a modification that adds knobs for the filter and makes it more expressive, known as the Moog Slayer.

  • http://synthmod.net/korg/moog_slayer/ Moog Slayer Modification
  • http://www.synthmuseum.com/korg/korpoly80001.html Synth Museum
  • http://www.vintagesynth.org/korg/poly800.shtml Vintage Synth Explorer Category:Synthesizers


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