A new direction for Korg

[shefu]

It might come as a shock to you that you're not the only Korg customer in the world for which they design sounds or produce new products.

I personally love the new unique sounds in the Nautilus and there's a multitude of areas that they could be used in, from scoring for film/video games to producing pop/rap/edm and so on.

But the good news is that it might not be too late for you to apply for a job at Korg, then if u do get in, u have to opportunity to design their products.

Best of luck.

And it might come as a shock to you that I create sound libraries for the Korg Kronos since years, designed mods to tilt the Kronos LCD screen at any angle, created a special op-amp circuit to improve the aftertouch on the Kronos and written how to achieve several other improvements for that great instrument. So I don't need to work for them to improve their products.

So you can keep your disrespectful ad hominem sarcastic comments for yourself. Enjoy your Nautilus and best of luck.

Having worked for Korg in the past doesn't take anything away from my reply to you. They don't make products exclusively for you, the products they do make are enjoyed by millions around the world, that's why they keep making them. Are their improvements to be made? Sure. But to rage out just because you don't like some sound libraries it's just comical.

[shefu]

Folks, let's take a deep breath.

KORG is a large company that can do multiple things at once. While I agree that they've been losing direction in their workstation category for a while, this accordion isn't a crazy idea. As I pointed out above, Roland has had electronic accordions for a while, and they're still in that market. Obviously that market is a real thing, and KORG wants a piece of that action - I can only approve. It would have impressed me even more if they'd turned this into a workstation proper as well, but even as a synth and controller interface, this is a desirable item and I hope that they succeed with it.

I couldn't agree more! To say that accordions are not popular anywhere is just tragically uninformed. The Balkans (south east Europe) is just one of the many areas around the world were accordions are still widely used for live performances. This step by Korg was actually a very good one.

As I said, they make as many products as they can for a wide variety of performers and producers. They can't please everyone with every single product, or sound library.

[Hooked On Sonics]

Wow, this is "IMO" kind of interesting. Is this the first of its kind for the synth world?
https://korgusshop.com/products/st1k?mc ... 045cf076f9

[Koekepan]

I don't know - it's still a tuner. I've always used guitar pedals and they do a fine job.

Or my ears and a reference tone. That works too.