Korgs I’ve Owned Part 8 — Opsix: A New Approach to FM
This is post 8 of 8 in the series “Korgs I've Owned” On numerous occasions, I’ve alluded to having a love/hate relationship with Korg keyboards. With the exception of a few scant hours with a modular Moog in college, and some experimentation designing various circuitry of my own shortly after, my synthesis adventures in general,…
Korgs I’ve Owned Part 7 — Wavestate: A Most Versatile Sound Creation Tool
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.
My Perfect Synthesizer
Over the years, I’ve given a lot of thought to my idea of the “perfect synthesizer.” Although some have come close, it has yet to come along. Let’s lay out my criteria for a perfect synth: 3 Digitally Controlled Analog Oscillators Each oscillator has Sine, Triangle, Saw, Super-saw, Square, and Pulse waveshapes plus white/pink noise…
Korg KRONOS 2 Discontinued?
It appears that after 11 years, Korg have decided to discontinue the KRONOS line of music workstations, leaving the Nautilus as their new “top of the heap.”
Korg Kronos Manuals
This is post 6 of 7 in the series “Kronos Chronicles” The Kronos Chronicles documents my experiences with the Korg Kronos 2 Music Workstation. Tapping in this box will unfold an index with links to all posts in this series. Keyboard Shake Up Korgs I’ve Owned Part 6 — Kronos 2 Kronos’ Public Debut Necessity’s…
Kronos Accessory DVD-ROM Images and Kronos OS Updates
There seem to be a lot of people who have difficulties downloading the ISO files used for reimaging a Korg Kronos from the official Korg support web site — Korg’s site is very slow to load and a bit cranky when it comes to downloads. A lot of times it just plain fails. Since I have a complete set of DVDs from my Kronos 2, I thought I’d make some ISOs and upload them to my Google Drive for folks who can’t make the Korg site work.
Kronos’ Public Debut
This is post 3 of 7 in the series “Kronos Chronicles” The Kronos Chronicles documents my experiences with the Korg Kronos 2 Music Workstation. Tapping in this box will unfold an index with links to all posts in this series. Keyboard Shake Up Korgs I’ve Owned Part 6 — Kronos 2 Kronos’ Public Debut Necessity’s…