Korg keyboards come with cutting-edge technology and amazing ease-of-use, making them suitable for every application. Keyboards for Professionals & Beginners. Here we take a look at Korg’s various keyboard series.
Irrespective of whether you are a professional musician or a beginner trying to learn the ropes, you can choose from a variety of Korg keyboard instruments depending on your needs.
Korg Keyboards: Cutting Edge Products
Korg is a fairly young company, compared to Yamaha and Roland, but it makes some of the most amazing professional arrangers, top-quality workstations and synthesizers – especially the analog ones.
Korg has a full line of keyboard Instruments to suit every application, be it on stage or in the studio. Korg keyboards have always been popular for its techno sounds and its synthesizers & workstations are a favorite with people who make dance, trance, and hip-hop music.
However, besides making great keyboard instruments, Korg is also one of the leading brands when it comes to producing equipment, both hardware and software, for audio recording and music production.
Here are some of their product categories.
- Professional Arrangers
- Digital Pianos
- Workstations & Synthesizer Keyboards
- Digital Tuners & Metronomes
- Digital Drum Products
- Amps
- Guitar Effects
- KAOSS Products (portable phrase synthesizers)
- Controllers & software
- Stereo Recorders
- Various Production Tools
And various Accessories such as Expansion options, Adapters & powercords, pedals & switches, sound samples, and more.
Limited Options For Beginner?
If you are a beginner looking for an arranger keyboard, I will suggest you check out Yamaha or Casio keyboards. Korg arranger keyboards would be heavier on your pockets and you will not get enough options at the lower end.
You should be fine if you are looking for a digital piano though. Korg has some excellent digital stage pianos that will suit beginners as well as seasoned players.
Korg Arrangers
Korg arranger keyboards (PA series) are renowned for their stunning sounds, effects, world-class styles and ease-of-use. They are one of the preferred keyboards, be it for onstage performance, or for use in the studio or at home. You can use these for composing, songwriting, as an accompaniment keyboard or even as a one-man-band. Read more…
Korg Stage& Home Digital Pianos
Korg brings high level of realism and feel to its digital pianos. Their vintage stage pianos are quite popular. Enhance your live performances and practice sessions with their top-quality digital pianos and organs. If you prefer uncluttered looks, authentic piano sounds and keyboard touch, check these out. Read more…
Korg Synths
Korg Synths are known for their distinctive sounds, easy and intuitive operation, Their Synthesizers are suitable for both stage as well as studio use. Experience the ease of operation and power in all their keyboard synthesizers; be it sample playback or analog synths. You can expand your potential with their innovative music workstations. Read more…
Korg Expansion Boards
A Korg expansion board gives you the flexibility of adding a synth engine and helps you access addition programs and music samples from your Keyboard. Read more…
Great For Contemporary Music
Korg has made synthesizers and workstation that have always been a hit with musicians, because of its superb sound engine, availability of a huge palette of sounds, and it’s extreme ease-of-use.
The stunning loops, arpeggiator, and effects, especially of their analog-synths, have been used extensively for making some great techno and dance music tracks.
Their target market is usually the professionals who perform and record, no wonder it keeps on introducing models with cutting edge technologies.
Great Workstations
Korg has always been a major force in the workstation market by delivering a full line of powerful, lightweight, and interactive music workstations that produce powerful performances with each and every use.
Korg has always responded to whatever Yamaha & Roland has thrown in the market, with its innovative products. The M50, which is based on their flagship Oasys sounds, is available at almost one-third the cost of the Fantom G…and it comes with a touch screen too.
Note – KARMA (Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music Architecture) is the patented algorithmic music generation system developed by Stephen Kay and licensed to Korg, who included it first in their award winning Karma music workstation.
Korg Triton Family
Introduction to the korg Triton family, and why some of these still continue to be popular in-spite of being replaced with newer models.
Talk about the Korg Triton, and in spite of being replaced with newer models, musicians would jump at the opportunity to own these keyboards. There are many for who, this still form the basis of their music creation set-up.
History
Korg Triton was a music workstation synthesizer that featured digital sampling and sequencing. All Tritons used Korg’s famed HI Synthesis tone generator. In no time, it became the go-to keyboard among musicians who used it prominently for music videos and live concerts.
It soon became a benchmark of keyboard technology.
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The Triton evolved out of the Korg Trinity, the first synth to have a Touchview screen, which is standard on the Triton Extreme and Triton studio, but not the LE, TR or rack.
These are aesthetically and functionally very similar to each other. The Trinity had similar naming conventions with the Triton Classic, with Pro and Pro X being designated to models featuring 76 and 88 keys respectively.
The Triton Rack (now discontinued) had all of its keyboard counterparts’ sonic power, sampling functionality, intuitive operation, and expandability.
It was during the NAMM 2007 show that Korg announced the successor to the Triton: the Korg M3 which is another outstanding board.
Buying Used
If you keep your eyes open, you may be able to land up some crazy deals on these keyboards. I have seen Triton LE’s go for as little as £250 on eBay, which is peanuts, for this beast. But then you should also know how to use it and incorporate in your setup.
There are many pro musicians who use this as the sequencer to quickly come up with some music ideas and as their song sketch-pad.
If buying a used one, its best to buy the Triton Extreme or a triton that is SCSI fitted (for faster loading of samples). The Triton Studio only comes with a 48MB Rom. Compare that to the Triton Extreme which costs less and has a 160 MB Rom. Also, the Triton Extreme has 2 USB ports on it for use as a MIDI interface and for data exchange.
Here’s a video that shows how to use the sampling record function on the Korg Triton Studio keyboard synthesizer
KORG Triton EXTREME Video:
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Conclusion
Korg are primarily known for their synthesizers and workstations, but they do have some good quality digital pianos.
When it comes to pianos, their product offerings may not be as huge as that of Yamaha or Roland, but they definitely have good quality pianos to cater to a wide spectrum of piano players. So a Korg Piano could be the option you’re looking for.
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Hello, I guess I’m confused I’m looking to have my Korg R3 Synthesizer repaired, do you folks repair them and how exactly does this work. I have a Korg R3 that is in need of repair, the select Dial for A thru P is not working, two LCDS are not readable and two of the LCD light are out, what would you suggest I should do or where to have these items repaired.