MATRIXSYNTH: Korg MS20 Including Schematics, Manuals and Setting Examples


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Korg MS20 Including Schematics, Manuals and Setting Examples

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Note the following documents are from the seller. You can check the seller's listings here or contact the seller on Ebay. Do not contact me.

"includes Schematics, Manuals and Setting Examples... My 75-page Information Packet is the definitive collection of MS-20 documentation. It includes a photocopy of the hard to find Service Manual that tells you exactly how to align keyboard intonation. It contains physical and schematic drawings of the entire instrument, a complete parts list, and circuit board layouts in case you have to repair something. As a musician/engineer, I wanted ALL the paperwork, so I schmoozed copies out of the factory guys. The Owner's Manuals are first generation copies and include many notes and hand-written custom voicings I developed. The Service Manual was already a copy when I got it from the Korg repair shop. Since 1999, I have sold over 300 sets of these documents to buyers around the world... Im including a copy of the original Owner's Manual which has all the basics, like a block diagram and signal flow chart, patching tricks, and many basic sound patches. It also has a scary looking "CAUTION" warning you to never, EVER open those secret rubber plugs!

There's a 30-page Setting Examples manual, with lots of instrumental and effects patches ... many of my own design, including SFX like endless wind, surf, distant trains, dive bombers, earthquakes, explosions, helicopters, lazers, and UFO's.

There are tricks for using the External Signal Processor, so you can plug in your guitar or microphone and create control voltages which in turn control the synth. Remember: the MS-20 was designed by Yasuhiko Mori, who also created the famed Vocoder! Very cool effects!

A Supplemental ESP Manual elaborates on pitch to voltage and expression pedal control. As an engineer, I often used my Korg like a broad-band signal generator for machine setup, creating tones from 20 to 12 kHz ... so there are patches for that too.

And there's that hard to find Service Manual with the crucial VCO Alignment Procedure ... the "secret" process that lets you pop open those rubber plugs without fear. You'll never get caught "playing in the cracks" again ... unless you really want to!"

1 comment:

  1. quite expensive...
    I have the same documentation which came along with my mint MS-20. I got everything for the equivalent of 500 euro in 1997.
    The example patches are extremely naive, however I strongly recommend to have the service manual. You never know...

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