Great Synthesizers is an online magazin with reviews, pictures, documents and soundfiles of analogue and digital synthesizers & related music gear
A new analog era? Well, maybe! “These instruments are capable of sounds that go beyond existing analog synthesizers” … Korg’s own words. They sound promising. The Prologue-16 and Prologue-8 look extremely… Read More
First, the title is not quite correct. The Emperor in H. C. Andersen’s famous tale is … well, naked. Anyway, “new clothes” is what our story is about. Second, this… Read More
No matter which way you look at it, Korg is Korg! State of the art. Ok, ok, maybe the MS-20 revival boom has overpeaked, considering that there are now the… Read More
Some might consider the Korg PS-3100 synthesizer as an oversized MS-20. But this polyphonic instrument is – like its monophonic colleague – in a class of its own. Korg’s PS-series… Read More
Even if it’s already a couple of months old, a MUST for this summer is the interview with Fumio Mieda (engineer of the original MS-20) and Hiroaki Nishijima (chief engineer… Read More
Following in the footsteps of the Monotron, Monotribe and MS-20 Mini analog synthesizers, Korg announces the Volca series. Volca is a new lineup comprised of three distinct models: the Volca… Read More
This is one of my favorite videos. In this example Korg’s Polysix sounds like a string machine and that is what I like a lot about it. There are not… Read More
As usual, what you hear is a multitrack recording. Korg’s Mono/Poly offers excellent and fat Bass sounds. By using Crossmodulation and Oscillator Sync you can get interesting EFX sounds. The… Read More
One of the most successful workstation/synthesizers in the last 3 decades. A beautiful sounding and State of the Art music machine, that gives you everything you need to expand your… Read More
The Korg MS-20 synthesizer was released in 1978. This landmark indicated to American synthesizer manufacturers the coming dominant factor in the synthesizer field: Japan. In its brief life span (production… Read More