#KORG POLY 800 WITH AUDIO INTERFACE SERIES#
Triton series became the most commercially successful and was based on Trinity workstation capabilities. Trinity models included flash memory for storing new sounds. Its interface offered ADAT I/O, SCSI and S/PDIF. The peculiar feature of Trinity is that the synth had a touch screen TouchView which made the work with the instrument much easier. The famous Trinity series was launched by Korg in 1995. Each series got their polyphony increased, sound library memory enlarged, got some additional input/output options (floppy disk drive) – so to say the interface optimization and logical functionality. The technologies which proved to be worthy and efficient passed to such brand series as T, 0, X.
#KORG POLY 800 WITH AUDIO INTERFACE GENERATOR#
Rompler M1 with the sound generator based on PCM with recorded realistic timbres occupying 4 Mb of memory, offered 61 keys, comprised a built-in sequencer and MIDI implementation. The series M1 launched the production of the workstations becoming the greatest series in the Korg history together with Korg Triton which was put into production in 1999. Anyway these synths had quite limited MIDI support. The units are monotimbral and feature special fastenings which allow them to be used as a guitar instruments during live performances. The synthesizers are equipped with digital oscillators, 3 envelope generators. Module MS-50 combined with MS-20 gives an impressive bass sound.Īnalog synthesizer Korg Poly 800 and its elaborate version Poly 800-II appeared to be the first fully programmable synthesizers costing less than $1000. It doesn’t have a keyboard and features ADSR, AHDR envelope generators as well as an LFO. Expansion module MS-50 was meant to serve MS-20 synthesizer. There were also low pass and high pass resonant filters.
The second version of MS-10 offered extended functions (you could increase the number of keys up to 37) and two envelope generators: AHDSR and ADR which allowed to track sound and make some interesting results of it creating effects.
The series included MS-10, its improved version MS-20, MS-50 and as an addition to them a vocoder VC-10 and a sequencer SQ-10. Staggering success came to Korg in 1978 and it was brought by MS monophonic synthesizers. In 1973 the first synthesizer was presented – mini Korg 700 with such specs as 2 oscillators and 3 modulators for new sound effects creation or throwing in some extraordinary noise low pass and high pass filter. Together they launched a successful drum machine unit called Donca matic DA-20 and got down to some serious work on Prototype I electric organ which marked the release of the first synthesizers – actual basics of further Korg products, those flagship products we know today because they keep on conquering the music market. The story of the company started in 1962 after Tsutomu Katoh, an owner of a nightclub, and Tadashi Osanai, a noted Japanese accordionist, who used to frequent this place as a performer, decided to join their forces in order to create an elaborate rhythm machine version. Korg is a Japanese brand which received lots of positive reviews among electronic musicians thanks to featuring great sets of unique sound effects as well as unlimited sound transformation possibilities.