MATRIXSYNTH: Korg Maxi-Korg K3 (800DV) Vintage Synthesizer 1975


Friday, September 28, 2007

Korg Maxi-Korg K3 (800DV) Vintage Synthesizer 1975

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"This is a unique vintage 1975 Korg Maxi-Korg synthesizer - serial number 0594! This synth is also known as the Korg 800DV and Univox K3 but was sold in the US under the name Maxi-Korg K3. The power of the Maxi-Korg lay in the way it could create and play sounds. In essence, it was two Korg 700S synths in a single box, so you could treat it as two distinct synths, creating two different sounds, and then playing them independently. Some other mid-'70s synths allowed you to play two notes, but these used the same patch parameters for both. Only the Maxi-Korg could produce two sounds that you could play as a composite, or as two independent synths. Yet this was only half the story, because the 800DV allowed you to allocate the voices in a huge variety of ways. This made it possible to program more realistic, more expressive, or more off-the-wall sounds than was possible on other monosynths. The Maxi-Korg was, and remains, one of the most impressive, flexible and articulate synths ever built."

3 comments:

  1. Obligatory Sound on Sound retro about the 800DV and its predecessors: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr98/articles/mini_korgs.html

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  2. Here's a list of some notable users of the Korg 800DV/Maxi-Korg K3:

    Dave Ball (Soft Cell, eg on the early demos and Memorabilia)
    Kitaro
    Vangelis
    Kaipa (Swedish prog group)
    The Cure

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  3. my maxi Korg K3 will not power up any trouble shooting ideas? Chris

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