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Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese multinational corporation
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A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 that manufactures electronic
Electronics

Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
 music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al instruments and electronic tuner
Electronic tuner

An electronic tuner is a device used by musicians to detect and display the Pitch of notes played on musical instruments. The simplest tuners use LED lights or a needle to indicate approximately whether the pitch of the note played is lower, higher, or approximately equal to the desired pitch....
s. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide.

ded 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
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai.






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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese multinational corporation
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 that manufactures electronic
Electronics

Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
 music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al instruments and electronic tuner
Electronic tuner

An electronic tuner is a device used by musicians to detect and display the Pitch of notes played on musical instruments. The simplest tuners use LED lights or a needle to indicate approximately whether the pitch of the note played is lower, higher, or approximately equal to the desired pitch....
s. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide.

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
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 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
Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, is an American company, formerly a producer of stringed instruments, woodwind, brass instruments, theatre organs, fairground organ, orchestrions, electronic organs, Wurlitzer electric piano and jukeboxes....
 Sideman 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 MiniKorg, 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.

Korg subsequently branched out into the music recording and electric guitar effects market, with some success.

Yamaha Corporation has always been a major partner of Korg, supplying them with circuitry and mechanical parts. In 1987, 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 to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. After the following 5 very successful years, Kato had enough money to rebuy most of the Yamaha share back in 1993.

Timeline of major products

  • 1963 - Donca-Matic DA-20
  • 1966 - Donca-Matic DE-20
  • 1973 - Korg Mini-Korg 700
  • 1975 - Korg WT-10: World's first hand-held electronic tuner
    Electronic tuner

    An electronic tuner is a device used by musicians to detect and display the Pitch of notes played on musical instruments. The simplest tuners use LED lights or a needle to indicate approximately whether the pitch of the note played is lower, higher, or approximately equal to the desired pitch....
  • 1975 - Korg Maxi-Korg 800DV
  • 1977 - Korg PS-3100, PS-3200, PS-3300
    Korg PS-3300

    History The gargantuan Korg PS-3300 is one of the biggest and rarest synthesizers ever made. Only around 50 units were produced by Korg over a period of 3-4 years in the late 70s before it was discontinued....


  • 1978 - Korg MS-10/MS-20
    Korg MS-20

    The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and was in production until 1983. It was part of Korg's MS series of instruments, which also included the single oscillator MS-10, the keyboardless MS-50 module, and the SQ-10 sequencer....
  • 1978 - Korg VC-10 Vocoder
    Vocoder

    A vocoder, , is an analysis / synthesis system, mostly used for speech in which the input is passed through a multiband filter, each filter is passed through an envelope follower, the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated, and the decoder applies these control signals to corresponding filters in the synthesizer....
  • 1979 - Korg m500 Micro Preset
  • 1980 - Korg Mono/Poly
    Korg mono/poly

    A Korg Mono/Poly is a "mono-polyphonic" analog synthesizer manufactured by Korg from 1981?1984. The original retail price was $1400. This keyboard is the sister synth to the Korg Polysix....
  • 1981 - Korg Polysix
    Korg Polysix

    The Korg Polysix is a six voice programmable polyphonic synthesizer released by Korg in 1981....
Korg Poly61
* 1983 - Korg Poly-61
Korg Poly-61

The Poly-61 is a programmable polyphonic synthesizer released by Korg in 1982, replacing the Korg Polysix. It was notable as it was the first Korg synthesiser to feature a pushbutton user interface, dispensing from the Polysix's knobs and switches....
: The successor of the Polysix with digitally-controlled analog oscillators; Korg's first "knobless" synthesizer
  • 1983 - Korg Poly-800
    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....
    : First fully programmable synthesizer that sold for less than $1000, notable for using digitally-controlled analog oscillators and sharing a single filter for all 8 voices
  • 1983 - Korg SAS-20: The SAS-20 was Korg’s first arranger keyboard. A built-in computer analyzed the melody played on the keyboard, and generated a complex accompaniment. This was the world’s first auto-accompaniment function of this kind added to a keyboard. Also, a more traditional chord recognition system was included.
  • 1985 - Korg DW-8000
    Korg DW-8000

    The Korg DW-8000 synthesizer was released to the buying public in late 1985 along with its cheaper stable mate the Korg DW-6000 synthesizer. The DW-8000 was an eight note Polyphony hybrid Digital synthesizer-Analog synthesizer synthesizer instrument....
    : 8-voice polyphonic, user selected two digital waveforms out of 16 total. Used an analog filter.
  • 1985 - SuperDrums and SuperPercussion: Low-cost digital drum machines
  • 1986 - Korg DSS-1
    Korg DSS-1

    The Korg DSS-1 was a 12-bit polyphonic sampling synthesizer released in September 1986. It came out at a time when many of the popular synthesizer companies were beginning to get into sampling, an area of sound design that had previously been left to a handful of fledgling companies such as Fairlight, E-mu Systems, and Ensoniq....
    : Sampling keyboard with additive synthesis, waveform drawing and effects, with some similarities to the DW8000
  • 1988 - Korg M1
    Korg M1

    The Korg M1 was the world's first widely-known music workstation. Its onboard MIDI sequencer and palette of sounds allowed musicians to produce complete professional arrangements....
    : PCM rompler
    Rompler

    Rompler is a nickname for an electronic musical instrument that playbacks digital samplings stored in Read-only memory chips to generate sound....
     with built-in effects and sequencer, the M1 introduced many to the concept of a Music Workstation, a keyboard that could handle live performance, MIDI, sequencing, expandable sound banks, effects, and more in a single package.
  • 1989 - Korg T series (T1/T2/T3): Some improvements over the M1 with added features.
  • 1990 - Korg Wavestation
    Korg Wavestation

    The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004....
    : Vector synthesis
    Vector synthesis

    Vector Synthesis is a type of Synthesizer introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986. The concept was subsequently used by Yamaha in the SY22/TG33 and similar instruments and by Korg in the Korg Wavestation....
     and Wave Sequencing
  • 1991 - Korg O1/W: PCM rompler
    Rompler

    Rompler is a nickname for an electronic musical instrument that playbacks digital samplings stored in Read-only memory chips to generate sound....
     with more waveforms and effects than the M1
  • 1991 - Korg Wavestation EX
    Korg Wavestation

    The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004....
  • 1991 - Korg Wavestation A/D
    Korg Wavestation

    The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004....
  • 1992 - Korg Wavestation SR
    Korg Wavestation

    The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004....
  • 1993 - Korg X3
    Korg X3

    The Korg X3 is a synthesizer produced by Korg in 1993. The X3 features 200 Programs, 200 Combinations, 32-voice polyphony, a 32,000 note, 16-track sequencer with 100 patterns and 10 songs and a double-sided, double-density 3.5 inch floppy disk drive for song and other data storage types....
     / Korg X2 / Korg X3R: Music Workstation
  • 1993 - Korg i3 Interactive Music Workstation
    Korg i3

    The Korg i3 is a keyboard instrument introduced by Korg in 1993. Known as an "Interactive Music Workstation", the i3 broke new ground for Korg, and defined a new type of instrument - the professional auto-accompaniment workstation....
    : Korg introduced its first professional arranger in 1993 with the i3 model, which proved to be the first in a huge series of Korg 'interactive' products. Until that time the auto-accompaniment keyboards were designed primarily for home use, but i3 changed that. Its tone generator was an AI2 engine coming from the renowned Korg synths, which made it a perfectly usable 'pro' keyboard. Once again, a Korg keyboard succeeded because of the quality of its factory voicing. It also retained a multitrack MIDI sequencer, Styles and Arrangements that allowed players to use it as a band-in-a-box or compositional tool, improved chord recognition with a big graphical display, a joystick and analog volume controls for each accompaniment section. A new Backing Sequence feature provided also for easy creation of new songs based on styles.
  • 1994 - Korg X5
  • 1994 - Korg i2: Korg introduced the i2, an i3 "on-steroids" with a 76-note keyboard and a new Piano sound.
  • 1995 - Korg i1: In 1995 a further improved version of i3 was introduced: the Korg i1, that included an 88-note weighted keyboard, a huge piano sample, and built-in speakers. Other features were similar to the i3, even if new styles were added.
  • 1995 - Korg i4S: The i4S (where "S" stays for "Speakers"). This keyboard was something like an i3 with speakers, but with a smaller feature set.
  • 1995 - Korg i5S: The i5S was a scaled-down version of the i4S, with a plastic chassis and a reduced set of features. Some new sounds and styles were added.
  • 1995 - Korg i5M: A module called i5M was also introduced, with specifications similar to the i5S, but with no amplification and, obviously, no keyboard and joystick. This product was really appreciated by accordionists, happy to discover at its heart some added traditional styles and sounds (shared with the i5S).
  • 1995 - Korg ih: In 1995, singers also welcomed the "ih Interactive Vocal Harmony", that allowed for creation of vocal harmonizations, starting from chords played live in Style mode, or recorded in a Song's track. This unit is still a best-seller on the second-hand market, thanks to its excellent price/quality ratio.
  • 1996 - Korg Prophecy
    Korg Prophecy

    The Korg Prophecy is considered one of the earliest "virtual analog" synthesizers, although its synthesis capabilities went beyond many of its VA contemporaries....
    : One of the first successful virtual analog synthesizers
  • 1996 - Korg Trinity
    Korg Trinity

    Korg Trinity is a commercially successful synthesizer music workstation released by Korg in 1996. It was also the first workstation to offer modular expansion for not only sounds, but also studio-grade feature such as SCSI, ADAT, various sound engine processors, audio recording capability, and more....
    : The most important workstation release since the M1 almost 10 years earlier.
  • 1996 - Korg N364/264: Introduced RPPR
  • 1996 - Korg X5D
  • 1997 - Korg Z1: Providing a new technology: MOSS (Multi-Oscillator Synthesis System)
  • 1997 - Korg iX300: The iX300 Interactive Music Workstation was introduced, back to a unit without speakers but offering new sounds and more than 100 styles.
  • 1998 - Korg iS40: iS40 included new sounds (among them, a gorgeous stereo piano sample), new styles (128), and several new features. One of the most appreciated new features, Keyboard Sets, allowed for immediate recalling of keyboard track settings.
  • 1998 - Korg iS50: iS50 was the low cost version of iS40, lacking just a minor number of features from its bigger sibling.
  • 1998 - Korg i30: The i30 Interactive Music Workstation was introduced, claiming to be the first arranger featuring a Touch Screen Display. This model was speakerless, 64 notes of polyphony, and included some more sounds compared to the iS40.
  • 1999 - Korg Triton
    Korg Triton

    Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
  • 1999 - Korg Kaoss Pad
    Kaoss Pad

    The Kaoss Pad is a touchpad MIDI controller, sampler , and effects unit for audio and musical instruments, made by Korg.The Kaoss Pad's touchpad can be used to control its internal effects engine, which can be applied to a line-in signal or to samples recorded from the line-in....
    , Electribe
    Electribe

    Electribe is the name given to a group of electronic musical instruments by Korg. From its beginnings with the Electribe R to the ESX-1, this series includes both analogue modeling synthesizers and sampling drum machines that can be programmed the same as a drum machine....
     dance synthesizers
  • 1999 - Korg i40M: Korg introduced a successor to the i5M: the i40M module. Specifications were similar to the iS40 (obviously, with no keyboard or joystick), but included a Vocal Harmonizer as standard. Furthermore, the module included 3 different pre-programmed MIDI setups, to make connection with various accordions even easier.
  • 1999 - Korg iS35: iS35 was a new version of the iS40, featuring the same specifications, and adding a Vocal Harmonizer as standard.
  • 1999 - Korg iS50B: iS50B boasted the same specs as the iS50, but in a Dark Blue chassis.
  • 2000 - Korg MS-2000
    Korg MS-2000

    The Korg MS2000 is a virtual analog synthesizer produced by the Japanese electronic musical instrument manufacturer Korg....
  • 2000 - Korg Pa80: A new range of arranger from Korg was introduced in year 2000: the Pa Series. Pa80 was the first model introduced in December 2000 with a stunning sound inherited from the award-winning, Triton, a wide selection of highly-musical Styles made by some of the best musicians in the world, a Multitasking Operating System and a revolutionary Dual Sequencer design. This new keyboard brought the benefits of Korg's stunning songwriting and music production/performance to a whole new generation of musicians.
  • 2000 - Korg Pa60: The new Pa60 Professional Arranger was introduced. Apart from fewer features like sampling and Harmony Board compatibility, it is same instrument as the "top-of-the-range" Pa80.
  • 2001 - 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....
     featuring a form of arpeggiator
    Arpeggiator

    An arpeggiator is a feature available on some hardware synthesisers and virtual instruments. It allows the player to automatically step through a sequence of notes based on the player's input, most often from a keyboard MIDI controller, thus creating an arpeggio....
     more elastic and musical than previous forms
Korg Karma
* 2001 - Korg Triton Studio
Korg Triton

Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
 featuring an onboard cdr drive
  • 2002 - Korg MicroKorg: A portable version of the MS-2000 synthesizer
  • 2002 - Korg Triton LE
    Korg Triton

    Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
  • 2003 - Korg Pa1X Pro: During this year, a new line of professional arrangers debuted, starting from the flagship - the Pa1X Pro Professional Arranger. Including some ot the most advanced technologies available in the musical instrument world, it marked the return of Korg to the speakerless, studio-oriented interactive composer type of arrangers. It also marked the beginning of a factive cooperation with the renowned studio gear manufacturer TC-Electronic.
  • 2003 - Korg MS-2000B
    Korg MS-2000B

    The Korg M00B is an analog physical modelling synthesis synthesizer made by Korg. The MS-2000B, released in 2003, is a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic....
    : new version of the MS-2000 synthesizer with updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic; Korg MS-2000BR: rack-mount version
  • 2003 - Korg microKONTROL: portable MIDI keyboard controller
  • 2004 - Korg Legacy Collection: Includes software emulations of three famous Korg synthesizers: the MS-20, Polysix, and the Wavestation
  • 2004 - Korg Pa1X: Short after the launch of the Pa1X Pro, the Pa1X Professional Arrangers was introduced. This is the speaker-fitted, shorter-scale version of the Pa1X.
  • 2004 - Korg Pa50: After the top-of-the line, ultra-luxury Pa1X Pro, Korg release its most inexpensive arranger ever - the Pa50 Professional Arrangers. Despite the low purchasing price, it boasted most of the same features of the revered Pa60, making it a true bargain.
  • 2004 - Korg Kaoss Pad KP2, an improved re-release of the original Kaoss Pad, is released.
  • 2004 - Korg Triton Extreme
    Korg Triton

    Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
    : An updated version of the Triton is released to a highly-anticipating public. It boasts many new features. Most notable is the Valve Force circuity, or, the integration of a 12AU7 tube into the workstation. Nicknamed "Russian Bullet," these tubes are rumored to last a minimum of 10 years. Another notable feature is the drastically increased ROM size: 160 MB, featuring 32 megs of all new acoustic samples.


  • 2005 - Korg Oasys
    Korg OASYS

    The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton. Unlike the Triton series, the Oasys is implemented on a custom Linux operating system and is designed to be arbitrarily expandable via software updates, with its functionality limited only by the Personal computer-like hardware....
     (Open Architecture Synthesis Studio workstation)
  • 2006 - Korg TR
    Korg Triton

    Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
    : enhanced Triton Le music workstation
  • 2006 - Korg RADIAS
    Korg RADIAS

    Korg Radias is a virtual analog synthesizer, released by KORG corp. in 2006.Radias' MMT engine was based on Korg's Oasys AL-1 synthesizer module, which means that it can do several synthesis types at the same time....
     massive re-tooling of the Korg MS-2000B
    Korg MS-2000B

    The Korg M00B is an analog physical modelling synthesis synthesizer made by Korg. The MS-2000B, released in 2003, is a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic....
     analog-style synthesizer
  • 2006 - Korg PadKontrol
    Korg PadKontrol

    The Korg PadKontrol is a USB MIDI controller manufactured by Korg. The PadKontrol was released in 2005 as a competitor to the Akai MPD and the M-Audio Triggerfinger....
     drum-trigger style MIDI controller
  • 2006 - Korg D888 8-track digital recorder
  • 2006 - Korg Kaoss Pad 3
  • 2006 - Korg MicroX compact X50, half sounds from the TR, half new, with the X50's software capability
  • 2006 - Korg X50 a stripped-down Korg TR with no sequencer
    Sequencer

    A sequencer is something that either generates or analyzes a sequence, or triggers events in timed fashion. The term may mean or refer to:* Sequencer, a 1976 electronic music album by Larry Fast...
     but a software-linking editor librarian
  • 2006 - Korg Pa 800 Successor of the awardwinning Pa 80 but boasted with features like in the Pa1X Pro
  • 2007 - Korg M3
    Korg M3

    Korg M3 is a music workstation synthesizer manufactured by Korg and introduced at the Winter NAMM show during January, 2007. It hit the streets 4 months later....
     newest flagship workstation, diverging from the famous Korg Triton
    Korg Triton

    Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital Sampling and Music sequencer created by Korg. All Tritons use Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator....
     line, often called a "mini-Korg Oasys
    Korg OASYS

    The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton. Unlike the Triton series, the Oasys is implemented on a custom Linux operating system and is designed to be arbitrarily expandable via software updates, with its functionality limited only by the Personal computer-like hardware....
    "
  • 2007 - Korg R3 A portable version of the RADIAS synthesizer.
  • 2007 - Korg mini-KP - At 4.25" x 4.5", this smallest installment of the KAOSS series products packs all the punch of its larger brethren and offers both battery and AC power.
  • 2007 - Korg ZERO Mixers - Console style (Zero8) and DJ style (Zero4) mixers. Each incorporate a multi-channel FireWire audio interface and full DSP with a customizable MIDI control surface. Interfacing and performing with all types of software become seamless. Both mixers have received Traktor Scratch
    Traktor Scratch

    Traktor Scratch is a computer hardware and software package for hands-on control of digital audio playback. It functions as vinyl emulation software, but is also capable of control through time-coded CDs, or plain software-based audio playback....
     Certification.
  • 2007 - Korg KM Mixers - KM202 and KM402 are Korg's 2 and 4 channel DJ Mixers. They feature the full Korg MiniKP interface and effects, which can be applied to selected channels. 8 different EQ models (including full cut isolator), selectable by a large dial on the panel, are another unique offering.
  • 2007 - Korg Kaossilator
    Korg Kaossilator

    The Korg Kaossilator KO-1 is a portable Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer manufactured by Korg. It is capable of producing a wide range of sounds and can be tuned to various keys and scales....
     - Extremely compact dynamic phrase synthesizer which features 100 programs including acoustic
    Acoustic music

    Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses musical instrument s which produce sound through entirely Musical acoustics means, as opposed to electronic means....
    , percussion
    Percussion instrument

    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
    , and electronic sounds, a gate arpeggiator, 31 scale types ranging from Chromatic and Blues to Egyptian and Gypsy, and an 8 layer 8-step sequencer
    Sequencer

    A sequencer is something that either generates or analyzes a sequence, or triggers events in timed fashion. The term may mean or refer to:* Sequencer, a 1976 electronic music album by Larry Fast...
     for producing loop-based music. Following in the footsteps of Korg's KP technology, it features a touch pad where the horizontal axis varies in pitch and the vertical in tone. Released January 2008 in the US.
  • Toneworks-Guitar Effects and processors
    • AX10A - Modeling Signal Processor for Acoustic Guitar
    • AX1500G - Modeling Signal Processor for Guitar
    • AX3000B - Modeling Signal Processor for Bass
    • AX3000G - Modeling Signal Processor for Guitar
    • AX3A - Modeling Signal Processor
    • AX3B - Modeling Signal Processor
    • AX3G - Modeling Signal Processor
    • AX5B - Modeling Signal Processor for Bass
    • AX5G - Modeling Signal Processor for Guitar
    • PX4A - Pandora: Acoustic Personal Multi-Effect Processor
    • PX4D - Pandora: Personal Multi-Effect Processor
  • 2008 - KORG DS-10
    KORG DS-10

    KORG DS-10 is non-game music making software for the Nintendo DS that emulates the Korg MS-10 synthesizer. It was released on July 24, 2008 in Japan, October 10, 2008 in Europe, and November 4, 2008 in the United States....
     - Music program for the Nintendo DS
    Nintendo DS

    The is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 in video gaming in Canada, the United States, and Japan....
    .
  • 2008 - Korg M50 - Music workstation
  • 2008 - KORG Nano Series - Slim-line controllers (nanoPad, nanoKey and nanoKontrol)
  • 2009 - Korg microKORGXL - An updated microKORG
    MicroKORG

    The microKORG is a MIDI-capable virtual analog synthesizer/vocoder from Korg featuring high-quality Digital signal processing analog modelling. The keyboard is built in such a way that it is essentially a Korg MS-2000 with programmable Arpeggiator , a less advanced vocoder , lack of motion sequencing , lack of an XLR microphone input, and in...
     featuring the MMT (Multi Modeling Technology) sound engine as well effects processors from their KAOSS line products.


See also

  • Electronic tuner
    Electronic tuner

    An electronic tuner is a device used by musicians to detect and display the Pitch of notes played on musical instruments. The simplest tuners use LED lights or a needle to indicate approximately whether the pitch of the note played is lower, higher, or approximately equal to the desired pitch....


External links

  • Pictures and films of one of the most famous korg synths, the MS-10
  • - A decade old online resource hosting photos, product info, effects, mailing list and manuals for Korg's A1, A2 and A3 effects processors.
  • - Official brand website in spanish, maintained by spanish distributor Letusa,s.a.