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.
AnalogueHaven.com recently sold a PS3300 for around $3000.
ReplyDelete$3000 seems fair.
ReplyDeleteEhhh....I dont know. The maintanance on those things must be horrible. I would only buy one if I was an electrical engineer, or had one in the family.
ReplyDelete$3,000 seems cheap to me, they usually are at least £3k in Europe, usually higher
ReplyDeleteThree grand is a steal. Maintenance issues on PS keyboards are mainly about replacing old components, of which there are zillions. That said, a well cared-for 3300 cuts like a knife through any mix & if you leave it on you don't have to adjust the tuning for weeks.
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