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"Includes Box and Manual, no AC power adapter (I believe the part number is KAC-303 for that) but can run on double A batteries"
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Korg PSS-60 Programmable Super Section Sound Module Drum Machine
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"The Korg PSS-60 Programmable Super Section is a badass old drum machine released in the 80's. It was intended for use by songwriters and home recording for song sketching and accompaniment. It offers 3 available sections with drums, bass and chord accompaniment
Ready to jam. Input your chords and select a style and start jamming. The PSS60 has 70 preset patterns and 50 user patterns as well as 10 songs. One song can hold up to 9,703 notes. Patterns can be arranged using the pattern arrangement function. An on board Mic/Line input allows for connecting a microphone or line level instrument for further expansion possibilities."
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Check out a demo of one here.
"The Korg PSS-60 Programmable Super Section is a badass old drum machine released in the 80's. It was intended for use by songwriters and home recording for song sketching and accompaniment. It offers 3 available sections with drums, bass and chord accompaniment
Ready to jam. Input your chords and select a style and start jamming. The PSS60 has 70 preset patterns and 50 user patterns as well as 10 songs. One song can hold up to 9,703 notes. Patterns can be arranged using the pattern arrangement function. An on board Mic/Line input allows for connecting a microphone or line level instrument for further expansion possibilities."
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Korg PSS-50 Programmable Super Section
Sunday, January 22, 2023
KORG PSS-50 Super Section SN 006658
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"The Korg PSS-50 Super Section basically is a drum machine groovebox with 40 preset patterns and 8 interchangeable fills/ endings, making 16 of "your very own" variations storable. Variations are composed of drum sounds, bass and accompaniment, each volume level being separately controllable. The membrane keys, offering 12 different types of chords, can be used to transpose variations to different pitches.
One of the best features of this machine is the backing chords, which kind of sounds like an Omnichord, or a nice Casio chord, but with a lot more control, and variation because each chord can be played 12 ways (MAJ, MIN, 7th, DIM, AUG, etc..)! It has a very nice, warm analog feel to it. It has a bunch of different rhythms and styles ranging from Rock, Reggae, Latin, and Heavy Metal.
The bass drum, snare, rimshot, open/closed hihat, hi/lo tom and handclaps sound like early PCM samples, just with their own, peculiar charm. The warm, analog-like bass and chords synth sounds could originate from a simplified subtractive synthesis similar to the Korg Poly 800!
FEATURES:
• TONE GENERATORS: RHYTHM x 8 (bass drun, snare drum, high-hat open, high-hat close, tom high, tom low, handclaps)
• ACCOMPANIMENT (piano, electric piano. honky-tonk piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, jazz guitar, banjo, brass, synthesizer, organ, strings)
• RHYTHM PATTERN: 48 pattems (8 beat I-II, 16 beat I II, new wave, electro pop, disco I-II, rock'n roll, boogie. ballad I-II. hard rock I-II-III, heavy metal, jazz waltz, 4 beat I-II. big band, fusion I-II-III-IV, bossanova. samba, cha-cha, mambo, merengue, latin rock, reggae I-II, 2 beat. 3 beat, march, folk, country, bluegrass, shuffle 1-11, break & ending x 8)
• ARRANGEABLE AREA: 16 Patterns
• CHORD: Maj, m, m6. ,m7 ,m9, 6, 7. Maj , 9, dim, Aug, sus4 on, each root (C — B)
• PROGRAMMABLE BANK: Song bank x 8 (maximum 80 bars/bank). Song chain
• INDICATOR: Chord name display, Song/pattern display, conductor display, Chain step/bar number, Song number Pattern number
• MIXER: Rhythm volume. Bass volume, Accompaniment volume, Exrernal input volume, Stereo volume"
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One of the best features of this machine is the backing chords, which kind of sounds like an Omnichord, or a nice Casio chord, but with a lot more control, and variation because each chord can be played 12 ways (MAJ, MIN, 7th, DIM, AUG, etc..)! It has a very nice, warm analog feel to it. It has a bunch of different rhythms and styles ranging from Rock, Reggae, Latin, and Heavy Metal.
The bass drum, snare, rimshot, open/closed hihat, hi/lo tom and handclaps sound like early PCM samples, just with their own, peculiar charm. The warm, analog-like bass and chords synth sounds could originate from a simplified subtractive synthesis similar to the Korg Poly 800!
FEATURES:
• TONE GENERATORS: RHYTHM x 8 (bass drun, snare drum, high-hat open, high-hat close, tom high, tom low, handclaps)
• ACCOMPANIMENT (piano, electric piano. honky-tonk piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, jazz guitar, banjo, brass, synthesizer, organ, strings)
• RHYTHM PATTERN: 48 pattems (8 beat I-II, 16 beat I II, new wave, electro pop, disco I-II, rock'n roll, boogie. ballad I-II. hard rock I-II-III, heavy metal, jazz waltz, 4 beat I-II. big band, fusion I-II-III-IV, bossanova. samba, cha-cha, mambo, merengue, latin rock, reggae I-II, 2 beat. 3 beat, march, folk, country, bluegrass, shuffle 1-11, break & ending x 8)
• ARRANGEABLE AREA: 16 Patterns
• CHORD: Maj, m, m6. ,m7 ,m9, 6, 7. Maj , 9, dim, Aug, sus4 on, each root (C — B)
• PROGRAMMABLE BANK: Song bank x 8 (maximum 80 bars/bank). Song chain
• INDICATOR: Chord name display, Song/pattern display, conductor display, Chain step/bar number, Song number Pattern number
• MIXER: Rhythm volume. Bass volume, Accompaniment volume, Exrernal input volume, Stereo volume"
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Korg PSS-50 Programmable Super Section Portable Synthesizer & Drum Machine SN 004924
Thursday, January 20, 2022
KORG PSS-50 Super Section 80’s Synthesizer Drum Machine w/ Original Docs
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"Includes original instructions, pattern chart booklet, schematic sheet, power supply adapter, and spare fuse"
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"Includes original instructions, pattern chart booklet, schematic sheet, power supply adapter, and spare fuse"
Thursday, October 14, 2021
KORG SUPER SECTION
video upload by THIS MUSEUM IS (NOT) OBSOLETE
View of the inside.
And the Bad Gear video he referenced:
Bad Gear - Korg PSS-50 SuperSection - Ultimate 80s Cheesebox???
video upload by AudioPilz
"In this episode of Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools, we are going to have some clean 80s fun with the Korg PSS-50 SuperSection. Did we find the ultimate 80s cheesebox? Do you know any bends or mods for it?"
AudioPilz Bad Gear posts
Thursday, February 11, 2021
KORG PSS-50 Super Section
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"Great shape, tested and working! Includes original instruction booklets!! A must for any serious vintage drum machine or synth collectors!"
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Check out the recent demos of one and additional posts here.
"Great shape, tested and working! Includes original instruction booklets!! A must for any serious vintage drum machine or synth collectors!"
Monday, February 08, 2021
Korg PSS-50 chord progression 2 with Alesis Midiverb (avant-prog/free improvisation edition)
video by acreil
"You can make unusual time signatures by switching between patterns.
Chord progression:
First part: F m7, B m6, D M7, G# 7, A# m9, E 6, G m6, C# 9
Second part: C# m7, C M7, E m7, G M7, G# m7, B M7, A# m7, F# M7, F m7, E M7, D# m7, A M7
Third part: F M7, A m7, A# M7, B m7, D M7, F# m7, D# M7, D m7, C# M7, C m7, G# M7, G m7"
Friday, October 02, 2020
Korg PSS-50 Programmable Stupor Section chord progression
acreil
"This thing isn't as useless as I thought.
Chord progression: G 9, D# M7, C m9, F 7, F 6, G 9, D# M7, C m9, G# 9, B m9, G# 7, G M7, C 6, D# M7, F 9, B m9, G# 7, G M7, C 6, D# M7, F 9, B M7, F# M7, A# m7, C# M7, E 6, B M7, F# M7, A# m9, A 9, E m9, D m6, C# m9, F# m7, F 6, E m9, D m6, C# m9, F# m7, F 6
Pattern: Bass 25 (Hard Rock I), Accomp 14 (16-Beat II), Rhythm 11 (8-Beat I), Fill In 17 (Disco I)"
Saturday, June 20, 2020
KORG PSS-50 Super Section synthesizer original sales brochure
Thursday, March 26, 2020
KORG PSS-50 Super Section 80's Programmable Portable Synthesizer & Drum Machine
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
KORG SUPER SECTION PSS-50 PORTABLE SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINE w/ ORIGINAL BOX
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Korg PSS-50/Poly-800 Demo Song (1984)
Published on Dec 14, 2019 jd wall
“The PSS-50 Programmable Super Section was released in 1984. Different chordal accompaniment patterns/sounds, bass lines, and drum patterns could be combined into custom machine-music combinations. In this lo-res video it’s providing the backup for a Poly-800 routed through some PME-40X effects. (The keyboard-guitar thing was definitely a phase, and the vibrations from Al Di Meola’s Tour-De-Force LP were still in the air.)
Cheers,
Don M”
Monday, November 11, 2019
KORG SUPER SECTION PSS -50 PORTABLE SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINE
Friday, September 06, 2019
KORG PSS-50 Super Section Programmable Portable Synthesizer Drum Machine SN 002941
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Chord memory - AX80 + Juno 6 and Korg PSS 50
Published on Dec 4, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira
"Noodling around with chord memory function to beef up sounds - all mashed via a Korg Super Section PSS-50
MiniBrute added on bass.
Was aiming for a Super Mario trip on mushrooms but not sure I got there."
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
KORG PSS-50 Programmable Super Section
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Korg PSS-50 Vintage Groovebox SN 006385
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Groovosaurus: Korg PSS 50
Published on May 24, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira
"First 5 minutes with this lovely dinosaur.
Korg PSS-50 Super Section - from mid 80s (I think)
I wish I could do all my scores on this thing."
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