120 Years of Electronic Music
Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990
Korg Synthesisers Keio Electronic Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan


The Korg MS10 Analogue synthesiser (1975)

The MS10 was Korg's entry level monophonic synthesiser. The MS10 had 1 VCO that was patchable through Korg's standard 1/4" jack front panel patchbay to the VCF and VCA and mixable with a noise (white/pink) generator.


The Korg MS20 Analogue Synthesiser

A dual VCO version of the MS10.


The Korg MS50 Analogue Synthesiser

The Korg MS50 was a modular monophonic analogue synthesiser, the flagship model of the MS range


The Korg PS 3100 polyphonic Analogue Synthesiser

The PS 3100 was a modular analogue polyphonic synthesizer designed for "high playability and flexible control".The PS-3 100 had a built-in VCO, VCF, VCA, and EG for each of the keys on the keyboard for a total of 48 synthesizer circuits and included a ring modulator, tremolo modulator and three resonating filters. The modules of the synthesiser were completely separate and routed by using Korg's standard patching system.


The Korg PS 3300 polyphonic Analogue Synthesiser (1977)

The PS 3300 was the top of Korg's polyphonic PS range and was sold as the worlds first completely polyphonic synthesiser. The PS3300 was similar to the 3100 with independent VCO's, VCF's, VCA's, and EG's for each note on the keyboard which was microtonally tuneable. The 3300 had a mixing module, general envelope generator, sample and hold patchable through the SG, DLPF, EM, and RESO modules for glides, polyphonic glissando etc.


The Korg VC10 vocoder (1978)

The VC10 was an affordable and easy to use polyphonic Vocoder/synthesiser


The Korg SQ10 analogue sequencer

The SQ10 was an analogue 24-step sequencer/synthesiser.


The Korg MonoPoly Analogue Synthesiser

The MonoPoly was a 4 VCO analogue synthesiser with 44 note keyboard, it was 4 voice Polyphonic with a built in basic step sequencer and arpeggiator. The MonoPoly had Portamento, arpeggio sync, CV/Gate, VCF and VCO mod inputs.


The Korg PolySix Synthesiser

A 6 note polyphonic analogue synthesiser with a built in chorus effect unit and 64 patch memory bank.


The Korg Poly800 mkII synthesiser

The Poly800 & Poly800 mkII were 2 VCO , 8/4 voice polyphonic 'affordable' and portable synthesisers, cheaper versions of the larger DW-8000. The poly800's had a built in 1000 note step sequencer and in the mkII a digital delay and were equipped with MIDI in/thru/out ports.

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