The ability to physically interfere with the acoustic element can really open up a level of expressive control that could close the gap between guitars and keyboard-based synths. Excited to see where they go with this, hoping for different ways to physically interact - plucking, tapping, scraping, all bringing different expressive sounds
I like that it's an analog and digital emerging technology, this will give infinite organic sound which could spawn a new type of music. Good job engineering team it's impressive work.
It isn't analog and digital emerging technology. It is acoustic/electronic hybrid instrument, and functionality is similar to acoustic-electric guitar. Electronic part of it could be analog or digital, but it really doesn't matter. What does matter is a concept. I think that the most important aspect is that everything is under one enclosure. That makes a difference.
This is so exciting. Even if it is just an experiment the day we will be able to produce convincing realistic sounds on such a tiny space is getting closer.
@@zipperton If you are talking about physical modelling synthesis, yes, that came quite some time ago. I'm talking about a small factor (polyphonic?) synthesizer that uses real resonators instead of physically sampled oscillators, now that's the real deal I haven't seen yet. I know that I'm talking about. What is the point of your "lol"? There is no need to play it smart in here...
@@asdszf physically modelling isnt sampled. its a algorithm. and real resonators always need room. there is no way to size them down. the resonance frequency is defined by its volume. welcome to physics
@@brainslayer666 yes it uses algorithms which is a fancy word for a set of rules of how a model should act. for example, how a "steel string" should physically deform based on the external energy applied. but you always need a model, which in the real world are the driver and resonator (both are one, not separated entities like it is emulated in analog synthesis where the oscillator is your driver and the filter works as a resonator but there are separated hardware units). But real instruments are more complicated than this. a piano hit will never sound the same in the microscopic level: there are many factors that alters its physical shape like the atmosphere, the hammer pieces getting old, the strings gradually losing tension, your fingers not hitting with the same force... the older the instrument gets the "different" it sounds. sorry for the long comment, this is just an example as to why we still don't have the perfect algorithm to fully emulate your grandad attic's piano. as to resonators always needing room: as long you have the fundamental frequency calculating the overtones is straight up simple. read more about how tape echoes pedals/emulators works an how they can emulate a huge metal room without actually needing to have one inside of them. Frequency has nothing to do with volume, that is a subjective term to describe the amount of 3D space an object takes.
Looking forward to a demo of the final product. Hopefully you'll be able to activate through MIDI - playing a set piece would be much easier from a keyboard.
The Basic idea is pretty interesting and i'm glad that electro-acoustic instruments are actually approached more. I did not expect Korg doing that of all people but i am glad they do and I'm and very curious. Especially since Korg actually manages to deliver at a good and reasonable price-range. Pretty sure the whole thing might probably result in VERY customizable kits that Korg might sell as Entry, Midrange and Expert level kits and perhaps even various modules you could add into your Acoustic Synthesizer system. Kinda like a Modular System but for an Electro Acoustic system. There's a LOT of potential coming from the usersbase too that Korg might even adapt. I can almost see them perhaps doing a guitar-string based Instrument as well and basically turning the concept of an E-Guitar and turning it more into a Synth. Especially with a little built in sampler/looper.
Bravo to Korg for once again reminding us that they're not just all about vintage, nostalgia-based design, but are also a team of forward-thinking innovators looking to create new and more unique ways of experimenting with sound.
The future really is in the digital domain and it's not being explored nearly enough: most companies just stop at wavetables and call it good. There's just a lot more to do and to explore, especially with the advent of AI. This new Korg thing just seems sonically very limited and uninteresting to me, like a gimmick. I could not think of any area of my music production where I'd actually want to hear this, so I won't be buying it. To each their own, but it's just in no way sonically satisfying to me. Maybe my mind will change, but I can already hear this on some hipster-adjacent music I'll probably not like.
Love the concept, we need more interactive instruments! Reminds me a bit of the Moog guitar with the whole feedback sustain/damp thing, but this seems way more interesting!
Tats is great… he’s like, current generation heir to Moog/Buchla/Perlman/Zinoffiev. Wonder if they are going to make a larger, like 49-key or 61-key version. Can’t imagine it would be cheap to do so. But very new and unique concept. Very exciting!
Please do alla of the versions, drum machine, strings, and one that needs air to work, I’ll buy all of them straight away, this idea is really cool !!!
This is *more warm* than those analogue synths, I can tell tell already, I spend all my day in front of those *analogue* systems and when I go home I just want to relax with this acoustic synth.
Very very cool. I could see this playing in a similar space to an Ondes Martenot. It does have glass harmonica vibes too. Being able to physically interact or interrupt the tines system sounds like a good time.
So it's like an electric thumb piano with split tines, very specifically excited by electromagnet, with a pickup, feedback system, and synth on the back end. That's awesome. Serious outside the box thinking.
If you examine the device from the top, each individual note producing plate seems to have a screw on it which allows you to lower/raise the element in small amounts. I assume this allows you to tune or re-tune each individual note plate by using a tuner device like you would use an electric tuner device to tune a guitar properly... Then again, it's not explained in the video and I'm just speculating here... I'd love to see a finished product with maybe 2 or even 3 octaves of plates/notes, MIDI input and some digital or analog processing to make the sounds more varied and apply per-note effects... eg, you use the plates as the OSC section of an subtractive analog synth, and have all the other stuff onboard like filters, LFOs etc... that every full subtractive synth has...
This is one of the most interesting concepts for a synth that I've seen in a long time. I generally consider myself as having all the synths I need, but I would make a point to get something like this if the final product had just a couple more octaves to play with.
I remember thinking - when Tats did the granular convolver for RedBull - i wish he'd be back with Korg. Not only is he back with Korg, he heads the Korg Berlin and gets the freedom to explore his ideas - this is AWESOME. Hopefully whatever they'll come up with as an end product, will not be as expensive as Cicada Acoustic Synthesizer.
What a fantastic concept 💡 I love the fact you have so many different sounds coming from 1 sound and especially if you can use effects and manipulation. KORG forever leader's and pioneers of sound.
It seems like the best format for something like this would be the keytar, with the board you can interact with where the frets would be and the buttons on the main body.
Now, the game is getting,...iinteresting. THANKS so much for the excellent presentation of this prototype. It definitely has my attention. It's like AAS Chromophone 3, Ableton Collision/Tension/Corpus, etc physical modelling synth but in Hardware! Korg should definitely run with this. 🙏
It's funny and cool that contemporary instrument designs are going back to electro-acoustics with a twist. Love it! Especially the mechanical resonance
This and Erica Synths Strampipe are highly intriguing for me. I also want to add in the GameChangerAudio Motorsynth Mk2. Highly innovative pieces of gear.
Radical Concept... i like the tuned percussion sounds... sounds sort of like some of the more complex sounds you could get out of an FM synth, but strait out of the gate, so it is intriguing to think; where from there ? and i am sure this is just scratching the surface of the potential, something new to watch for.
You know what would be cool? Something similar to a CV control, where you can use a dynamic mic to introduce a vocal signal that you can blend into the resonator, or on the pickup end of it. I just kind of think that if a person were to get really into getting a feel for the instrument, it would be very cool to have them sort of guide the behavior of it through singing or humming or whistling or beatboxing. One of the great things about acoustic instruments is that it doesn't have quite as distinct capabilities as for what it can and cannot do. They may have different approaches that may be optimal or not optimal as far as the behavior based on how you use them, but you can ultimately use them in a lot of creative ways, provided you have the patience and a certain amount of openness toward the alternatives.
I think it'd make sense for this to be something that can be added to acoustic instruments, or aid in creating a DIY synthesizer using random acoustic objects. It would be an easier entry into extended recording/performing techniques for those on a budget.
What if you made a MIDI core-keyboard system with those tines, and then create add-on's like a rhythm one, and also the air resonant one. On the rhthm one, you could add a looper with multi-tracks. These add-on's could also attach physically to the core keyboard unit.
you could modulate this one by wiring up the metal strips with some wire or something right? Like use the C to modulate the C # just by taping them together?
It'd be interesting to add metal tabs that actually Touch the vibrating reeds for an interestiing dampening. (although over time I think they'ed wear and change) Also mic's at different points OR tiny mic's Attached at different points. (Also try to get radical with different shaped reeds and extra pickup's at different points (multi-tabs?) (multi-taps??)
This is a truly a beautiful idea and prototype. The applications are immense. It's sort of similar to a Rhodes piano as they have tines (a thin metal rod) with a small spring wrapped around the end for fine tuning, a pick up an inch or so away where the spring is and hammer hitting it to make the sound. I could imagine them being quite expensive as it's harder to mass produce than a baked bored and a box. Still, an innovative idea that has lots of potential.
Mr. Takahashi's explanation of this amazing device is so clear and concise. So cool!
Bravo to Korg for trying new musical paths and to the young engineer for implementing this new synth.
That's Tatsuya Takahashi the creator of the Volca series, minilogue etc... Not sure how young but a big name in the field already for a while
It seems like they're going for a similar principle to what the Motorsynth does.
👏🏽Well said!! Its too rare amongst the BigThree!
@@damnfractal More like a fender rhodes with filtered feedback.
@@atovproject He’s Asian, so he probably 53 lol
The ability to physically interfere with the acoustic element can really open up a level of expressive control that could close the gap between guitars and keyboard-based synths. Excited to see where they go with this, hoping for different ways to physically interact - plucking, tapping, scraping, all bringing different expressive sounds
you can do that with pianos and electric pianos already
check out the expressive e osmose
@@vidkarsrudgreksa1363 I am so psyched about that thing after Benn Jordan's video on it, can't wait to try it
I like that it's an analog and digital emerging technology, this will give infinite organic sound which could spawn a new type of music. Good job engineering team it's impressive work.
It isn't analog and digital emerging technology. It is acoustic/electronic hybrid instrument, and functionality is similar to acoustic-electric guitar. Electronic part of it could be analog or digital, but it really doesn't matter. What does matter is a concept. I think that the most important aspect is that everything is under one enclosure. That makes a difference.
Love everything about it. The drum machine and plate effects have got to be seen through!
Always trust an engineer who ages backwards.
So cool! Tetsuya is a freakin' genius mad scientist. I love it!
Yes! And so good at explaining!
Seems like an interactive spring reverb would be a nice addition to this instrument.
Then combine it with the drone motor synth and some Theramin-like + capacitive controls for the ultimate hands-on sound machine! 😃
This is so exciting. Even if it is just an experiment the day we will be able to produce convincing realistic sounds on such a tiny space is getting closer.
@@zipperton If you are talking about physical modelling synthesis, yes, that came quite some time ago. I'm talking about a small factor (polyphonic?) synthesizer that uses real resonators instead of physically sampled oscillators, now that's the real deal I haven't seen yet.
I know that I'm talking about. What is the point of your "lol"? There is no need to play it smart in here...
@@asdszf physically modelling isnt sampled. its a algorithm. and real resonators always need room. there is no way to size them down. the resonance frequency is defined by its volume. welcome to physics
@@brainslayer666 yes it uses algorithms which is a fancy word for a set of rules of how a model should act. for example, how a "steel string" should physically deform based on the external energy applied. but you always need a model, which in the real world are the driver and resonator (both are one, not separated entities like it is emulated in analog synthesis where the oscillator is your driver and the filter works as a resonator but there are separated hardware units). But real instruments are more complicated than this. a piano hit will never sound the same in the microscopic level: there are many factors that alters its physical shape like the atmosphere, the hammer pieces getting old, the strings gradually losing tension, your fingers not hitting with the same force... the older the instrument gets the "different" it sounds. sorry for the long comment, this is just an example as to why we still don't have the perfect algorithm to fully emulate your grandad attic's piano.
as to resonators always needing room: as long you have the fundamental frequency calculating the overtones is straight up simple. read more about how tape echoes pedals/emulators works an how they can emulate a huge metal room without actually needing to have one inside of them. Frequency has nothing to do with volume, that is a subjective term to describe the amount of 3D space an object takes.
Looking forward to a demo of the final product. Hopefully you'll be able to activate through MIDI - playing a set piece would be much easier from a keyboard.
E-bow Kalimba!!! Nice!
The Basic idea is pretty interesting and i'm glad that electro-acoustic instruments are actually approached more. I did not expect Korg doing that of all people but i am glad they do and I'm and very curious. Especially since Korg actually manages to deliver at a good and reasonable price-range. Pretty sure the whole thing might probably result in VERY customizable kits that Korg might sell as Entry, Midrange and Expert level kits and perhaps even various modules you could add into your Acoustic Synthesizer system. Kinda like a Modular System but for an Electro Acoustic system. There's a LOT of potential coming from the usersbase too that Korg might even adapt. I can almost see them perhaps doing a guitar-string based Instrument as well and basically turning the concept of an E-Guitar and turning it more into a Synth. Especially with a little built in sampler/looper.
Really hope Korg is reading this!!!!
I like everything about this. The "acoustic" animation books are an excellent touch.
Bravo to Korg for once again reminding us that they're not just all about vintage, nostalgia-based design, but are also a team of forward-thinking innovators looking to create new and more unique ways of experimenting with sound.
I think this is more backward-thinking. Just not buying it, figuratively or literally.
@@YourMom-zt5zj what about it exactly is "backward-thinking"?
The future really is in the digital domain and it's not being explored nearly enough: most companies just stop at wavetables and call it good. There's just a lot more to do and to explore, especially with the advent of AI.
This new Korg thing just seems sonically very limited and uninteresting to me, like a gimmick. I could not think of any area of my music production where I'd actually want to hear this, so I won't be buying it. To each their own, but it's just in no way sonically satisfying to me.
Maybe my mind will change, but I can already hear this on some hipster-adjacent music I'll probably not like.
Love the concept, we need more interactive instruments! Reminds me a bit of the Moog guitar with the whole feedback sustain/damp thing, but this seems way more interesting!
very much like the moog guitar!
Tats is great… he’s like, current generation heir to Moog/Buchla/Perlman/Zinoffiev. Wonder if they are going to make a larger, like 49-key or 61-key version. Can’t imagine it would be cheap to do so. But very new and unique concept. Very exciting!
Please do alla of the versions, drum machine, strings, and one that needs air to work, I’ll buy all of them straight away, this idea is really cool !!!
A little acoustic drum synthesizer. That would be so cool.
In my mind I have already purchased this
This is *more warm* than those analogue synths, I can tell tell already, I spend all my day in front of those *analogue* systems and when I go home I just want to relax with this acoustic synth.
Very very cool. I could see this playing in a similar space to an Ondes Martenot. It does have glass harmonica vibes too. Being able to physically interact or interrupt the tines system sounds like a good time.
So it's like an electric thumb piano with split tines, very specifically excited by electromagnet, with a pickup, feedback system, and synth on the back end. That's awesome. Serious outside the box thinking.
So excited for what's to come from this amazingly creative team!
Korg is one of me most innovative companies! Cool video!
Temperature variation concerns and the resonators alignments seem like interesting challenges here. Can’t wait to see how this all works out.
If you examine the device from the top, each individual note producing plate seems to have a screw on it which allows you to lower/raise the element in small amounts.
I assume this allows you to tune or re-tune each individual note plate by using a tuner device like you would use an electric tuner device to tune a guitar properly...
Then again, it's not explained in the video and I'm just speculating here...
I'd love to see a finished product with maybe 2 or even 3 octaves of plates/notes, MIDI input and some digital or analog processing to make the sounds more varied and apply per-note effects... eg, you use the plates as the OSC section of an subtractive analog synth, and have all the other stuff onboard like filters, LFOs etc... that every full subtractive synth has...
Quirky, innovative and inspiring.
Amazing concept, cant wait to see where this ends up.. Thanks for the walkthrough.!
The eneloop pro, colour matching the battery holder at 3:15, was a nice touch
Just bought my first Volca sample 2 !!!! - soooo excited!!!! 🙂 -FACT !!!!
Cheers! - Judson & Buddy!! - God Bless You ALL !!!
That’s so cool. It’s so much of a prototype the knobs text is drawn on with a marker
Good on Korg for really trying to do something innovative here. This is the path forward.
Tatsuya Takahashi is a legend of the instruments design, I love this guy !
omg hey! I thought Takahashi left Korg! This is so exciting, I love his work
Very exciting. I would definitely be interested in getting this once it’s available.
This is one of the most interesting concepts for a synth that I've seen in a long time. I generally consider myself as having all the synths I need, but I would make a point to get something like this if the final product had just a couple more octaves to play with.
really cool and love the drum machine angle for this approach.
Those flipbooks are an awesome way to show how the various vibration modes!
One of the most interesting things we've seen in years. Bravo Korg. I hope this comes with keys!
Now this is bloody interesting. Best thing that I’ve seen from all the Superbooth stuff.
I remember thinking - when Tats did the granular convolver for RedBull - i wish he'd be back with Korg. Not only is he back with Korg, he heads the Korg Berlin and gets the freedom to explore his ideas - this is AWESOME. Hopefully whatever they'll come up with as an end product, will not be as expensive as Cicada Acoustic Synthesizer.
Tatsuya Takahashi is really a treassure engineer of the modern music instrument development, and a wonderful person 🙏❤🎹
Love this! Something different. Please make it👍👍🤘😃😎
I love you Korg, Tat is the man!
Thoroughly interesting, without distractions, pro.
KORG are awesome.
Really new idea, love it. Interview needed more playing it though!
WOAH!!! IT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE!! love the natural element!!
This is wild. So many possibilities.
i appreciate this video deeply
Very well explained by this young fellow ! Interesting instrument, will follow it !
I'm sure the MPE crowd will be all over this. Cool instrument, for sure!
Incredible. I need several of these instruments that don't exist yet. The bass model will be larger, but damn it's gonna sound amazing.
JEEZUS, throw some reverb on it and it's a monster for things like horror/cinematic atmospheres
Amazing! I’ll start saving for the gadget. It’s probably gonna be very expensive. But I still enjoy old fashioned acoustic keyboards.
What a fantastic concept 💡 I love the fact you have so many different sounds coming from 1 sound and especially if you can use effects and manipulation. KORG forever leader's and pioneers of sound.
It seems like the best format for something like this would be the keytar, with the board you can interact with where the frets would be and the buttons on the main body.
Now, the game is getting,...iinteresting. THANKS so much for the excellent presentation of this prototype. It definitely has my attention. It's like AAS Chromophone 3, Ableton Collision/Tension/Corpus, etc physical modelling synth but in Hardware! Korg should definitely run with this. 🙏
Yes. I'd love one.
Wow. I hope this comes to fruition. Drum machine, keyboard? I vote for all!
It's funny and cool that contemporary instrument designs are going back to electro-acoustics with a twist. Love it! Especially the mechanical resonance
This and Erica Synths Strampipe are highly intriguing for me. I also want to add in the GameChangerAudio Motorsynth Mk2.
Highly innovative pieces of gear.
Would be coole if this had audio in and some wavefolder or distortion
Wow, innovation. I was starting to forget that it existed, it's been so long. This is really cool, I can't wait to see where it ends up.
Brilliant. Well done Korg; a fascinating concept. I'm very interested in seeing how this develops.
Radical Concept...
i like the tuned percussion sounds...
sounds sort of like some of the more complex sounds you could get out of an FM synth, but strait out of the gate, so it is intriguing to think; where from there ?
and i am sure this is just scratching the surface of the potential, something new to watch for.
I see good things in Korg's future.
Very well explained by that brilliant young engineer. Cannot wait to see the final version they release.
I love the flipbooks.
Very impressive!
Awesome!
Looks very interesting, but we need more of a demo than a couple notes.. hello?? Using it in musical way woul,d have been nice lol.
Very cool! As a guitarist and not pianist, I’m glad they’re not just looking at a standard piano keyboard layout.
What a beautifully complex sound! Love it!
SSSSSSOOOOOOOO Awesome!
💙KORG!
Also, that guys a damn audio genius
This is very interesting. Also nice presentation.
Very cool concept. I look forward to seeing where this goes.
Cool stuff. I dig it
its like a very complex kalimba, very nice
That sounds so damn good, also who got the plug-in version made already
You know what would be cool? Something similar to a CV control, where you can use a dynamic mic to introduce a vocal signal that you can blend into the resonator, or on the pickup end of it. I just kind of think that if a person were to get really into getting a feel for the instrument, it would be very cool to have them sort of guide the behavior of it through singing or humming or whistling or beatboxing.
One of the great things about acoustic instruments is that it doesn't have quite as distinct capabilities as for what it can and cannot do. They may have different approaches that may be optimal or not optimal as far as the behavior based on how you use them, but you can ultimately use them in a lot of creative ways, provided you have the patience and a certain amount of openness toward the alternatives.
I think it'd make sense for this to be something that can be added to acoustic instruments, or aid in creating a DIY synthesizer using random acoustic objects. It would be an easier entry into extended recording/performing techniques for those on a budget.
What if you made a MIDI core-keyboard system with those tines, and then create add-on's like a rhythm one, and also the air resonant one. On the rhthm one, you could add a looper with multi-tracks. These add-on's could also attach physically to the core keyboard unit.
As a certain Vulcan would say…. Fascinating.
BRILLIANT...........................
Revolutionär!
super cool!
Great really original idea
this is sick as hell
YES PLEASE.
I need one!!!!
you could modulate this one by wiring up the metal strips with some wire or something right? Like use the C to modulate the C # just by taping them together?
I LOVE THIS!!!
Neat idea.
SO COOOL. i want a whole piano. somewhere between an organ and a rhodes. I almost want the feedback loop to encompass polyphonic notes
It'd be interesting to add metal tabs that actually Touch the vibrating reeds for an interestiing dampening. (although over time I think they'ed wear and change)
Also mic's at different points OR tiny mic's Attached at different points.
(Also try to get radical with different shaped reeds and extra pickup's at different points (multi-tabs?) (multi-taps??)
Hurrah, it’s a spring reverb!
i want this badly :)
This is a truly a beautiful idea and prototype. The applications are immense. It's sort of similar to a Rhodes piano as they have tines (a thin metal rod) with a small spring wrapped around the end for fine tuning, a pick up an inch or so away where the spring is and hammer hitting it to make the sound. I could imagine them being quite expensive as it's harder to mass produce than a baked bored and a box. Still, an innovative idea that has lots of potential.
Genuinely groundbreaking stuff.
What's the thing he's holding halfway the interview and why is not appearing in the rest of the demo?