Musikmesse Videos on Moogulator

Title link takes you there.


Jörg at the Radikal Spectralis

CS01 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by JSRockit.

Tsutomu Katoh and the History of Korg

Title link takes you to Part 1 of an excellent three part series by Gordon Reid on the history of Korg and its founder, Tsutomu Katoh. Part 1 starts in the early 1960s with the DoncaMatic rhythm machines and ends with the DW Series in 1986. Here are links to Part 2, Part 3. Fascinating reads if you haven't read them before.





Their first synth? The Minikorg 700


Image via Sequencer.de's Korg page.

Via SOS:
"Whether by luck or genius, Katoh and his team produced something truly innovative. Taking many of the concepts from the 1970 organ prototype, they broke numerous unwritten rules that decreed that synths should have multiple oscillators, self-oscillating filters, and variable parameters for all the functions on the panel. Instead, the 700 offered oscillator settings such as 'chorus I' and 'chorus II' (which produced rich, swirling tones), and its strange percussion/singing controls created envelopes quite unlike those of the competition. But the little synth's greatest strength was its 'Traveler', a low-pass/high-pass filter section that proved to be extremely intuitive and manageable. Sure, there were limitations, but to concentrate on these was to miss the point entirely. The 700 was stable, it was affordable and, most important of all, it sounded great, eventually numbering players as respected as Kitaro and Vangelis among its users."

Korg Professional Laboratory Systems

Click here for a full sized image of the ad to the left on Korg Kornukopia. The ad is for the Korg PS3100 and PS3300 fully polyphonic analog modulars. Yep, fully polyphonic. Each offered full polyphony at a stagering 48 voices - you could press every key down and they would all play. They used divide down circuitry for the oscillators but each note triggered its own dynamic filter, envelope and VCA. The PS3100 featured 32 patch points and the PS3300 featured over 60. The PS3300 was in essence three PS3100s in one.

Read the ad for more followed by this Sound on Sound article on 40 years of Korg by Gordon Reid. Do a find for PS3100 to jump to it's section when you get there.

R@F's TR-909 Page

Home to miscellaneous info on the TR-909 including a mug shot of Atsushi Hoshiai, a list of hardware changes, some schematics and more.

Korg Radias Sample

Title link takes you a 5.68M sample of six minutes and twelve seconds of the Radias. It's a good demo, showcasing individual patches rather than the typical dance track samples.

EFFEXON - New Flickr Shots

flickr by unyo303. Title link takes you to more.

CEM3340-3 - New Flickr Set

flickr by flowthrough. Title link takes you to more. Unfortunately there are too small to read. : (

Update via Jack Astro in the comments: "Here are a few I have found on PDF."

Korg MS10 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by jjohanne.