50 Years of KORG (1963-2013)

AlchemistMusicStudio · Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:01 pm

Korg the Great! Congratulations! All the best for the future!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 6dfsNHXlYw

1963 - Donca Matic DA-20
1973 - Korg Mini-Korg 700
1981 - Korg Polysix
1983 - Korg SAS-20
1986 - Korg DS-8
1988 - Korg M1
1990 - Korg Wavestation
1991 - Korg 01/W
1993 - Korg i3
1996 - Korg Prophecy
1996 - Korg Trinity
1999 - Korg Triton
2000 - Korg PA80
2001 - Korg KARMA
2003 - Korg PA1X PRO
2005 - Korg OASYS
2006 - Korg Radias
2007 - Korg M3
2007 - Korg PA2X
2011 - Korg KRONOS
2011 - Korg PA3X
2013 -

Ojustaboo · Post by **Ojustaboo** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:28 pm

Hope the future is better than that YouTube clip

I expected to see a clip showing the various synths from the first to the Kronos, not a 16 sec clip just saying 50 years.

Not even a bit of text at the end teasing us about what 2013 might bring

AlchemistMusicStudio · Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:12 pm

Ojustaboo wrote:Hope the future is better than that YouTube clip

Do you know the movie: Christmas Vacation (Clark ''Mark Frank'' Griswold)? His father said the famous sentence: (...) a little lights are not twinkling (...). You know, what I mean?

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:53 pm

I thought last year was KORG's 50th, but it turns out their first release was in 1963, even though the KORG team began in a factory in 1962.
There's a nice article series on KORG's 40th at SoundOnSound with a more comprehensive overview of the various instruments KORG built.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:20 pm

Congratulations .... slow start but since the 80's very productive.

AlchemistMusicStudio · Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:51 pm

Jan1 wrote:I thought last year was KORG's 50th, but it turns out their first release was in 1963, even though the KORG team began in a factory in 1962.

Yes. The company's first product released in 1963, called the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm Machine DONCA MATIC DA-20.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:55 pm

Wow, 10 keys! I wonder what the polyphony was?

Vadim · Post by **Vadim** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:20 am

I wish 2013 would be the year of 01/w and Trinity VSTi

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:38 am

50th anniversay is a good time to make a MS20 50th anniversary edition

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:48 pm

Congratulations to Korg and to everyone working for them past and present. I hope 2013 is a good year for Korg and that you have another 50 successful years ahead.

Kevin.

billysynth1 · Post by **billysynth1** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:14 am

I'm assuming that video clip is like thier count down to NAMM lol.

I speculate that something big in the form of a synthesizer is coming lol

They have to give something to mark the big Five O....

Billy

DH56 · Post by **DH56** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:19 am

Remember when the M10 became the 01/W?

Their new workstation will be called the SONORK!

Congrats to Korg for Five Zero!

Vadim · Post by **Vadim** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:08 am

billysynth1 wrote:
They have to give something to mark the big Five O....

hmm.. maybe 05/W vsti or Trinity V05 vsti

Crystalmsc · Post by **Crystalmsc** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:37 am

Vadim wrote:hmm.. maybe 05/W vsti

the N1r vsti might do the job

cello · Post by **cello** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:59 pm

Congratulations to Korg for 50 years of instrument making! They have indeed broken new ground several times and no doubt will again.

They're bound to bring out something to mark the anniversary - a Trident 50 perhaps?