New Full Sized MS-20 D.I.Y. Kit

narf · Post by **narf** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:46 pm

http://www.jrrshop.com/namm-news/korg-ms-20-kit

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:56 pm

Interesting. There was a huge debate going on at gearslutz.com about this. A lot of folks were quite adamant that this wouldn't be released, but lo and behold!

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:05 pm

Lol...everything is there...why they wouldn't just assemble the thing, LOL.

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:16 pm

I thought the kit was a joke...

Bald Eagle · Post by **Bald Eagle** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:44 pm

BasariStudios wrote:Lol...everything is there...why they wouldn't just assemble the thing, LOL.

Korg is having trouble keeping up with production of all the recent products so this should speed things up a bit. Plus it saves you the trouble of disassembling it if you want to mod it.

In any case if this is real I think I want one.

metallo · Post by **metallo** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:46 pm

Love it....it will be mine

censustaker · Post by **censustaker** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:37 pm

Hmm.. it seems more like buying a synth from Ikea than a kit.

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:39 pm

seems slightly over priced

Akos Janca · Post by **Akos Janca** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:57 pm

On Synthtopia:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/ ... h-classic/

I like it very much.

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:11 pm

however, wats really nice is that you can switch between the early and later models' filters!

Akos Janca · Post by **Akos Janca** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:42 pm

Real metal nuts + Anybody can assemble + Comments from the sympathetic developers etc. = Brilliant idea, bravo Korg!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cue1LX0jxVg

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:06 pm

Sorry to be negative about this but -

1. It will never work reliably. I would _never_ buy a kit and expect it to work. I say that from experience.

2. It's far too expensive.

Kevin.

Akos Janca · Post by **Akos Janca** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:16 pm

Hi Kevin,

This kit seems to be really easy to assemble, it's almost done already. No soldering needed. Few nuts and connectors - a bit like "IKEA".

So I guess it would work for you.

The price is another question. Yes, it's not cheap. But it's a full size limited edition.

el_hombre · Post by **el_hombre** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:59 pm

This looks awesome! If I didn't already have the mini and/or plans to go ahead with a modular this year, I'd totally be in on this!
Wish they'd released something else from the MS line, but the fact that this is pretty fricken cool is pretty hard to deny.
Love it!
Only question I have is does any calibrating need to be done once these are assembled?

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:06 pm

I wonder if this stores patches in it...MIDI...e tc...or is it 100% replica.