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All your Korg synths and keyboards.
Popular synthesizers and workstation from Korg that excel in many different roles – in the recording studio, stage or home.
Korg m50 Workstation
The Korg M50 Workstation is a serious workstation from Korg that is priced well within the reach of the working musician, yet delivers incredible sounds and a great playing experience.Pros
Rich sounds, Excellent for the PriceCons
No built-in speakersThe Korg M50 workstation is apt for working musicians on a stretched budget. A small investment that will pay you back many times in terms of inspiration, fun, self expression and lots of great music.
This workstation from Korg excels in many different roles! Be it the recording studio, stage or home, you can depend on the Korg M50 to deliver every time and everywhere.
Another point in its favor is its cost; it is extremely difficult to find a workstation that delivers all these features at a price of around 1200 bucks.
When it was launched, there were many who were trying to compare it with the likes of the Yamaha Motif, and obviously the Motif XS had some amazing sounds, it was about three times more expensive.
And that is why the target audience of the M50 is the working musician on a budget. And it still has some excellent drums and beats, piano patches, and effects. Not really mind-boggling, but it does get the job done.
This other popular products around this price range are the Korg PA-50, Yamaha MOX 6 and the Roland GW-7, but they’re made of arrangers where this is a budget workstation.
If you are a non-piano player, you’ll find the M50 easy to use and you can get some great sounds out of it in no time. The combi-mode is quite powerful and you can get immense soundscapes with it.
If you are a Korg fan and have a bigger budget, then you might want to consider the M3.
The Korg M50 is available in three sizes:
Korg m50 61 – 61 key great feeling semi-weighted keyboard
korg m50 73 – 73 key semi-weighted keyboard
korg m50 88 – 88 graded hammer action piano keys
Specs
Here are the salient features of the Korg M50 Workstation.
Super lightweight / portable. Suitable for Stage, Studio or Home
Uses the same Synthesis / Effects as in its larger sibling – the M3
Rich expressive sounds of authentic instruments; Amazingly realistic and dynamic orchestra; Lush strings and pads
Synth sounds are typical Korg – Powerful and endlessly Tweak-able
Touch Display – incredible at this price
Backlit joystick – very helpful for onstage performances
Combi mode – gives you upto 16 programs that can be layered, split and velocity switched for the stunning sonic landscape that you expect from Korg
One touch record feature for recording your ideas anywhere
16 track sequencer – if you want to start from scratch, available with all the editing features. Customisable templates to get you started quickly.
Connect to computer using USB. Comes with an editor librarian that lets you control every aspect of the keyboard, acting as a virtual instrument from within your favorite software sequencer
Use it as a controller – Gives you direct control of your studio. You can choose from a variety of control templates
If this is going to be your first synth keyboard, by all means go for it. Very expressive, easy to use, and you can come up with great stuff in no time.
Here’s another video that shows its capabilities.
Korg M3 Keyboard
The Korg M3 Keyboard is a sleek-looking, great-playing, and an easy-to-learn Workstation that combines the best of their earlier keyboards – the KARMA and the OASYS. Its excellent for making electronic music as well.Pros
Easy to create beats, Great organ sounds, Oasys technologyCons
Okay acoustic instruments
The M3 is a perfect mix of a sampler and synth, and provides you with everything that you need to create finished audio tracks, all under one roof.
Though it’s beat making features are well-known, these have some amazing Organ tones available on a workstation. You also get access to the most premium sounds and realistic-sounding acoustic instruments that Korg has to offer. The intuitive and easy-to-use control layout and its full-color screen makes it easy to access all the features.
This is your stand-alone production studio with mixdown and mastering tools and a variety of expression controllers, built with the KARMA Performance Engine and sounds that are derived from OASYS. All this, but at a fraction of the cost!The Korg M3 is great for making beats and using the on-board sequencer is very easy, compared to some of its competitors. You can even use it as a controller keyboard and DAW control surface, if you use it with your computer via USB. This one comes with multiple USB connecters, which can be used for flash drives, hard drives, and even a CD burner.
Even if you’re only interested in making electronic music, this one lets you do that with ease. Creating beats is easy and the Karma function allows seemingly infinite variations. You have hundreds of combinations of drums and styles and tempo can be controlled at the touch of a finger. Besides, you can easily sample in whatever you like.
This is perfect for House, Trance, and Electronica music. You could easily drive a party wild using only this machine.
Specs
Korg M3 Keyboard features include:
KARMA-fied with Programs & Combis from the OASYS, and many new ones
Control surface
23 sliders & switches available for KARMA Realtime Control
KARMA Wave-Sequencing
Drum Track
Radias Option
Open Sampling System
170 Dynamic Effects
Hi-Resolution SequencerIf you’re looking for an all-in-one instrument that can replace your piano, something that comes with a sequencer, synth, sampler and gives access to a number of high quality sounds and tools, this is the one. With the Korg M3 you get most of the OASYS technology built-in, without having to pay the premium for it. The M-3 is perfect for the road or for the studio.
Korg X50 61 Key Music Synthesizer Keyboard Review
The Korg X50 61 Key Music Synthesizer Keyboard is apt for home based studios, as well as for onstage performances.
The sound is absolutely stunning anyways, it uses the same engine as some of the top Korg keyboard workstations.
The keys of Korg X50 61 Key Music Synthesizer Keyboard are synth style plastic keys, NOT weighted ones so if you have been used to playing piano, you need to keep that in mind.
Price-wise this is inexpensive compared to some of the front line Korg synth keyboards. That’s because it is less customizable. The editing, customizing features are not as easy as on the top workstation keyboards including the Triton.
But the voices are just stunning. The acoustic instrument section, especially the Piano, Organ, Flutes, and strings voices are particularly strong. So if you intend to use classical sounds in your compositions, you will be more than pleased.
The Korg X50 is portable and sturdy. It will be great for gigs as well, besides for studio use.
Overall, it’s a great synthesizer keyboard, considering the price and the voices that are available (I think they are worth a lot more).
I strongly recommend the Korg X50 61 Key Music Synthesizer Keyboard.
I bought a Korg X-50 synthesizer keyboard because I wanted the great sounds of a Korg Triton, without having to burn a hole in my pocket.
The programs and combis in this Korg synth are just out of the world. If you have experiencing in voicing, then you will find the piano, strings, guitar sounds very impressive.
The Korg X-50 synth keyboard can be quite handy for a live performance as well. The knobs are convenient to use and you can do all the adjustments needed for a live performance by using the standard programming.
If you want something better, you will have to go in for the Korg M50 workstation which has some killer sounds, 16-track sequencer, touch screen, etc., but it is priced around $1000.
On the other hand, Korg X-50 synthesizer keyboard continues to sell for cheap, which I think, is a great deal.
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