Supporting member Electropict wrote in to let us know about their website Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance, and specifically an interesting project they took up during the lockdown.
"Whilst under pandemic lockdown last year, I started compiling information on early Korg serial numbers, which has gradually turned into a group of pages with about two thousand of them, of which about eighteen hundred have Matrixsynth references. (I think my curiosity got the better of me.)
There are, at last count, forty-four potential corrections, some of which are very interesting imho, and many of which are only obvious once you've understood the early Korg systems. (Hopefully these pages will be a useful reference in future, for anyone interested.)
The main page of all early Korg serials Iʼve found, which I'm updating about once a week: https://zasm.earth/korg-serials
The original idea, considering MS-20s in more detail, in its own page: https://zasm.earth/korg-ms20-serials-characteristics
And a page about one of the more interesting corrections - two MS-20s with the same serial number. https://zasm.earth/twynthesisers"
Be sure to see the rest of Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance for additional synth resources while there.
