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A couple of weeks back, I added another new keyboard to the arsenal. It wasn't exactly a planned purchase, but I was able to pick up a brand new Korg Wavestate at a price I couldn't refuse.…
Here's a dude who still tours with "real" keyboards ... well, mostly real. Top notch digital stage piano, Hammond B3, Hohner D6 Clavinet, and a Wurlitzer 200 electric piano. I…
What's really impressive is that Kronos family has been the top of Korg's heap since 2011. Again, rightly so. There's not really much it can't do. It is quite literally, a complete music workstation and recording studio in a single box.…
With the Kross 2, Korg have made a fairly complete workstation for someone on a really tight budget. It relies on Korg's EDS-i sound engine to produce over 1,000 sounds, and has an additional 128MB of PCM memory dedicated to pianos.…
Of all the keyboards I've owned, Korg or otherwise, the PS60 is probably the most uniquely performance-oriented keyboard I've ever owned.…
Anyway, I'd promised myself that I'd never own another Korg after the disappointment of the X2, and it was with some trepidation that I considered the X50. But, my friend Steve Rosch of the band The Janglebachs had one, and he loved it.…
The X2 was the big brother to the X3, and in addition to another 15 keys, it had an expanded sample ROM featuring a nicely multi-sampled grand piano, and it also had two independent audio outputs in addition to the standard left and right main outputs. Many of the sounds were derived from Korg's T3…
The first Korgs in my life were the DS-8 digital synthesizer and SQD-8 8-track MIDI sequencer. The DS-8 was an interesting synth. It was an attempt, I believe, to be a simplified 4-operator FM synthesizer that was simultaneously a multitimbral performance synth. It was even based on an enhanced Yama…
...at the risk of "burying the lead" too deeply, I did a thing, and brought home a 61-key Korg Kronos 2.…
I've added a few new items to my musical arsenal. Two of the three are capable of all sorts of sounds and rhythms, while the third offers some really fun control options. They are, clockwise from…
Demise of an old friend... It's appearing as though the time has come to replace my Casio Privia PX-310 stage piano. The reason has nothing to do with the sound, or the capability, or the playabi…