Don't understand all the negative comments. A big, wealthy corporation is funding a crazy and lovely reseach & development side project - that's what ALL corporations should do! And this is what all corporations _used to do_ before the bean-counters started running the show. How do you think most of your "classic synths" came into existence? Precisely by giving talented people the space to create something. Perhaps this won't become a classic, but then it might lead to something else, just like the countless failed experiments you never heard of that lead to classic synths. A little less cynicism would do us all some good. Kudos to Korg for funding this. I'm happy this exists.
Top comment, this is excellent to see, super positive 🎛🎹❤👍🔊 Tatsuya doing great stuff since the Monotron, great to hear he got back together with Korg. People on the ground doing real things carries so much more weight than grumpy comments on youtube.
was expecting something more innovative considering over two years of research This is a primitive synth with even more primitive resonators and don’t hear anything special from this garbage
Wow, okay haters. What does an electric guitar sound like when you plug it in directly to a mixer? Not impressive is it? You put an electroacoustic instrument into preamps, amps, effects etc. Just wait in a couple years when it’s out… i’ma make some sick records with this instrument. ✌️
Every time I hear anything about Korg Berlin my days gets substantially better. 16 minutes there was a little like heaven. Super excited about the randomise feature on the sequencer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a gr8 guy Tats is.....I remember his volca demo's, which has led me to acquiring four of them. I immediately liked this new instrument when they demonstrated the first prototype. Looking forward to getting my own. Even a 4 or 5 octave version with weighted keys would be amazing, if the 88key proves too difficult.
This is pretty cool man. I been enjoying my Prologue 16 of late. It's a pad machine. That's what I use it for mainly. In conjunction with the Model D which is the backbone of everything I do. And that's it. Just those two synths. I like the way the Prologue mixes. It is easy to slot it into any production. Minimum effort. Usually just works with only minimum treatment needed sometimes. Cool to see Korg doing other things though.
The Prologue is a beautiful polysynth in a market otherwise overcrowded by feature packed poly's tryjng to hide that most of them sound (and always have) 80% the same. Its stripped back compared to the competition, but it does what it does really fkn well. Its a shame that the actual release of the thing went so topsy tervy
it seems a bit weird to get back into this electromechanical stuff in the 21st century again, but if it works! that’s why stringed Instruments, especially the guitar, are still so popular, because you you have such an immediate access to all kinds of of sound parameters right with your fingers. with electronic instruments you have to go great lengths, to approach anything similarity profound.
For the first time in almost 20 years I'm excited, finally there is a new real electronic instrument, not a Raspberry Pi like computer digital synth with knobs and a screen that does the same as a Reaktor or Max VST.
Korg has succedeed in making analog synths, old and new, there's proof of that success, they're not going to be focusing in just making analog synths imo (as some people want), this is part of a new stage. Maybe for some people this is just a crazy engineering project, but this is how companies innovate, this could turn up into a great product or a flop or.. the start for a new type of instrument that could change at how we look at electronic instruments. You need to let people do things, either if it's failing or succeding at something. I think it's quite common in this industry
Looks beautiful and it probably would become and amazing kalimba of some sort, I can’t seem to grasp the musical utility of the sound pallet, since I have literally a luthier next to my home that build stuff like this from guayacan wood and the material seems to be more powerful amplifying the resonance of the body
This would make for an amazing scanned synthesis or modal synthesizer.. hope they will spin off a few prototypes in that direction.. would be the next evolution of oscillators and being able to interact with its nodal points in real time / audio rate would be quite fun
There is a version of Korg Gadget for VR, but it was developed (or ported) by a different company than the iOS version and was a bit buggy last I tried it. But definitely cool in concept.
I want one, looks inceedible. Is it stuck as an 8 step seqeuncer? Can it save sequences, will it be able to connect with midi in to make longer sequences?
I can’t stop thinking that Tats somehow tricked Korg into financing his 5 year glorified kalimba project so he can basically hang out in Berlin and have fun along the way ;) well played mister!
Yeah, I said that last year but I was half-joking. Like some VP from Japan had visited the Berlin office and caught the nerdbros screwing around and said they were all fired if they didn't have something to demonstrate at SuperBooth, so they threw together a ridiculous box of fixed-scale tuning forks that everybody knew was bad but they had to demo it as punishment. But then they barely made any progress in the past year, so now it seems more serious LOL. For two years the best sales pitch they've had for the project is "You can INTERACT with it PHYSICALLY!" but then the only example of said interaction is muting the tuning forks with random foreign objects - something they avoid actually demonstrating because it definitely sounds bad.
@@RaquelFoster to be honest phygital is the next stage of electronic music, plus Berlin has legal weed which allows Japanese stakeholders to steam off some of the corporate BS. It’s a synergistic win-win situation in my book. God speed!
Berlin is the main center for a lot of electronic music technology. Be it Ableton, native instruments, bitwig, ton of smaller companies and a ton of parties and concerts that push the boundaries of electronic music.
at this point they should be designing like an arturia polybrute 16 or something like that for 2000 usd less, with extensive modulation matrix, 4 parts multi timbral, digital FX, one wavetable oscillator, etc
“Er war Superstar, er war populär Er war so exaltiert, cause er hatte flair Er war ein Virtuose, war ein Rockidol Und alles rief: "Come and rock me Amadeus" Falco
I'd buy this iteration right now and never look back !!!! Tats is our Moog /Buchla/Arp/ Smith... etc. Korg you better continue to fund him because he is your/ our musical future! additionally I'd be totally ok with euro rack versions of the monotrons/ monotribe/ minilogue and the volcas! I think that would be huge!?!?!
Korg is priming us with the video for it to be at least 1,000 USD. It is brand new tech with significant R&D and precision machining. First gen of new tech is always pricey. I hope you are right though.
The office is beautiful and the instrument looks nice. I am all for creativity and developping new instruments. But I just dont get that this thing is the result of all Korg Berlins work. It is just a Kalimba with a sequencer. There is no tonal variation in the sounds this thing is producing, which could make it interesting. This is just so clearly a case of the emperor that has no clothes that I am kind of questioning my own sanity watching this but I think I am sane, this is a good looking Kalimba without any change to what a kalimba sounds like. But there seems to be a burning desire of people that makes them want to like anything that is somehow new. But i doubt that a lot of people will buy it so it would be much more honest to call it out for what it is. A not very good idea and a failed passion project.
Making something because you can - without asking who it is for/whether you should - is something you only do on a multinational’s salary, and with their resources … … … Who is this Phase synth for? Yoga studios? Cyber-monks? Seriously ?! … … … It’s not like ‘vibrating tines’ is a new sound/timbre … … … Seems they just want to corner some imagined niche, rather than competing where the action is (Prologue was their best shot at that?!) … … … I’m worried for Korg. 😏
Making something because you can without asking who it's for is literally what every truly creative person does. Tatsuya is clearly a talented creator of musical equipment and instruments. If you don't like it just don't buy it! This is the guy who got me buying korg stuff in the last decade and a half.
@@Schizopantheist Don’t worry, I won’t (buy it). Would just be nice to see Korg making something good, instead (or, as well, even), for us to buy and for them to keep going. Trying to sell expensive raspberry pi s, and this kind of sidetracking, doesn’t bode well for the future of Korg synthesizers.
As much as I love this it’s been a pattern of lots and lots of talk about the machine but barely any raw sound. I know it’s in development but still. Six minutes in and they are talking about “ wow we have a book of our custom shelf designs”. “ it’s free” what?
Yeah he seems like a mad genius that kinda got stuck inside his own head... Don't get me wrong, it's cool stuff - but the progress seems difficult/slow. Like, he seems overly conscious about his craft
This is beautiful engineering, but I am not sure it will have much of an impact on music. An old dictum about dogs and engineers comes to mind. I may be wrong though. Only when these things are put in the hands of musicians will we know.
It's incredibly creative and innovative work. I like the idea a lot. But it seems to have limited applications in sound design, and I'm not even sure I like the sound of it that much.
who should buy this terrible sounding marimba with an amp? 🤷🏼♂️ a 2 years Berlin office - a diversionary tactic for their current overpriced recycling devices?
I kinda like how the regular old Minilogue drifts slowly in its tuning... and you hit this sweet spot of "just right out of tune"... and then, if it drifts too far, you either hit the key combo for tuning (I think it's Enter + Write? It's muscle memory, I don't read the labels) or don't play for a bit and it tunes itself. I'd look to Novation or Sequential if you want an analog polysynth with the tightest tuning. IDK about Arturia, maybe them too? There are options, if you want that. I think Dreadbox and Moog usually have wonkier tuning than Korg, which is in between IMO.
Korg is wasting the vast amount of money on this guy and Korg Berlin. He has spent a year on improving this ridiculous electric kalinba and no progress at all.
@@bakerbakerbaker305 It won’t be the one. That Kalimba thing is so limited as a synth and it is no volca. Also expected the price to be boutique synth high
Watching second time but this guy has an inflated ego but not much creativity Spending more than two years and just coming up with this Kalimba disguised as an analog synth? It is a piece of garbage.
Don't understand all the negative comments. A big, wealthy corporation is funding a crazy and lovely reseach & development side project - that's what ALL corporations should do! And this is what all corporations _used to do_ before the bean-counters started running the show. How do you think most of your "classic synths" came into existence? Precisely by giving talented people the space to create something. Perhaps this won't become a classic, but then it might lead to something else, just like the countless failed experiments you never heard of that lead to classic synths.
A little less cynicism would do us all some good. Kudos to Korg for funding this. I'm happy this exists.
well said!
Top comment, this is excellent to see, super positive 🎛🎹❤👍🔊 Tatsuya doing great stuff since the Monotron, great to hear he got back together with Korg. People on the ground doing real things carries so much more weight than grumpy comments on youtube.
was expecting something more innovative considering over two years of research This is a primitive synth with even more primitive resonators and don’t hear anything special from this garbage
@@user-rh2csk you are not a shareholder of Korg, what exactly do you think you are owed by these guys?
Wow, okay haters. What does an electric guitar sound like when you plug it in directly to a mixer? Not impressive is it? You put an electroacoustic instrument into preamps, amps, effects etc. Just wait in a couple years when it’s out… i’ma make some sick records with this instrument. ✌️
2010s we had the genius of Tatsuki. 2020s is the era of Tatsuya!
2030s will be the era of Tatat Sukisuya
Korg hit the nail on the head hiring this guy
Remember how korg was before this guy? Remarketing the microkorg over and over
Well it worked 😅😅😅
@@wolfgangwiesinger9502 and still does, lol
@@martinjara7347 heheh, yes and i admit i am really interested in the MK II.
Bruh they're still selling that POS
Highly articulate. Creative, tean player, musician-engineer. One of a kind.
Every time I hear anything about Korg Berlin my days gets substantially better. 16 minutes there was a little like heaven. Super excited about the randomise feature on the sequencer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He has the greatest job in the world. And I love Korg, one of the best in history.
@@InFamousProductions no doubt about it
Always loved Korg for doing crazy things and packaging them as usable products.
So cool, looks like an amazing place to work and be creative.
So cool and so nice to see there are still places where creativity can evolve and bring out new stuff! Love korg for this and Tats is an amazing dude!
Thank you Korg! We needed this!
Awesome. Thank you for the reissues, really keeps the fire of analog alive. Very interested in what you are doing in Berlin. Cheers!
What a gr8 guy Tats is.....I remember his volca demo's, which has led me to acquiring four of them. I immediately liked this new instrument when they demonstrated the first prototype. Looking forward to getting my own. Even a 4 or 5 octave version with weighted keys would be amazing, if the 88key proves too difficult.
Fantastic video!
that was absolutely amazing to watch, thank you so much
It's fantastic to see new ideas, building on old ideas, pushing the range of sounds and expressivity.
Korg really priming us for this new instrument to be $$$$. That said, it is beautiful and inspiring.
Korg should keep letting these geniuses do what they wanna do in Berlin, and the future of synthesis will be bright
Truth. Bell Labs took that approach after WWII and their research changed the world. Corporate Management take note!
very excited for this project! reminds me of the weird gadgets Korg was releasing in the early 00's. That chrome/gray skin is superb!
Thank you for opening my eyes to this! Very exciting!
Tatsuya is the real deal
This is pretty cool man. I been enjoying my Prologue 16 of late. It's a pad machine. That's what I use it for mainly. In conjunction with the Model D which is the backbone of everything I do. And that's it. Just those two synths. I like the way the Prologue mixes. It is easy to slot it into any production. Minimum effort. Usually just works with only minimum treatment needed sometimes. Cool to see Korg doing other things though.
The Prologue is a beautiful polysynth in a market otherwise overcrowded by feature packed poly's tryjng to hide that most of them sound (and always have) 80% the same. Its stripped back compared to the competition, but it does what it does really fkn well. Its a shame that the actual release of the thing went so topsy tervy
it seems a bit weird to get back into this electromechanical stuff in the 21st century again, but if it works! that’s why stringed Instruments, especially the guitar, are still so popular, because you you have such an immediate access to all kinds of of sound parameters right with your fingers. with electronic instruments you have to go great lengths, to approach anything similarity profound.
Not of your talented. I’ve been playing guitar since age 5. I can do even more with synths. Way more expressive
Can imagine the pneuma of creative and genius residing there, that lets them brew unique stuff out of from
Danke für diese evidente Info, Jungs🎉
For the first time in almost 20 years I'm excited, finally there is a new real electronic instrument, not a Raspberry Pi like computer digital synth with knobs and a screen that does the same as a Reaktor or Max VST.
Been waiting for some actual products since they announced Kork Berlin. Come on, Tats! Get this stuff to market!
Acoustic tone generator synth !!! -its gonna be a blast !!! wow for shure !!
Korg has succedeed in making analog synths, old and new, there's proof of that success, they're not going to be focusing in just making analog synths imo (as some people want), this is part of a new stage. Maybe for some people this is just a crazy engineering project, but this is how companies innovate, this could turn up into a great product or a flop or.. the start for a new type of instrument that could change at how we look at electronic instruments. You need to let people do things, either if it's failing or succeding at something. I think it's quite common in this industry
Looks beautiful and it probably would become and amazing kalimba of some sort, I can’t seem to grasp the musical utility of the sound pallet, since I have literally a luthier next to my home that build stuff like this from guayacan wood and the material seems to be more powerful amplifying the resonance of the body
Thanks for sharing!
Cool .. I like the Customization .. Be interesting when it comes out !!
This would make for an amazing scanned synthesis or modal synthesizer.. hope they will spin off a few prototypes in that direction.. would be the next evolution of oscillators and being able to interact with its nodal points in real time / audio rate would be quite fun
Amazing look into the shop / the engineer!
this would be the coolest place to work
Tats... a hint.... it starts with E, ends with E and have a number 3.... still waiting!
Da heck?
@@milk_bath Electribe 3
maybe he’s no good at riddles?
With the recent releases maybe let's wait a little longer
@@indigo988 it's been 10 years...let's give it another decade!
I want one of those acoustic grooveboxes!
All i and very many people want to see is the continuation of the Korg Kronos. More powerful with more hands on controllers.
AMAZING VIDEO!!
Id like to see Korg get into VR. They are the company to do it. They are always pushing boundaries.
There is a version of Korg Gadget for VR, but it was developed (or ported) by a different company than the iOS version and was a bit buggy last I tried it. But definitely cool in concept.
Very nice insight !
So that’s why we stopped getting new volcas…. Ah ha
That's why we got the Volca mixer.. the worst reviewed volca lol.. No leadership on the project
I want one, looks inceedible. Is it stuck as an 8 step seqeuncer? Can it save sequences, will it be able to connect with midi in to make longer sequences?
i really really wanna work there
EpilogueXD 16. Flagship synth. I want it now.
Where can you get the book mentioned at around 1:39 it looks cool!
Tats has a nice British accent
What an amazing place, I wished I worked there!
Am I tripping or is the music a cover of Doll’s Polyphony from the Akira soundtrack? Ace if so
I can’t stop thinking that Tats somehow tricked Korg into financing his 5 year glorified kalimba project so he can basically hang out in Berlin and have fun along the way ;) well played mister!
Yeah, I said that last year but I was half-joking. Like some VP from Japan had visited the Berlin office and caught the nerdbros screwing around and said they were all fired if they didn't have something to demonstrate at SuperBooth, so they threw together a ridiculous box of fixed-scale tuning forks that everybody knew was bad but they had to demo it as punishment. But then they barely made any progress in the past year, so now it seems more serious LOL. For two years the best sales pitch they've had for the project is "You can INTERACT with it PHYSICALLY!" but then the only example of said interaction is muting the tuning forks with random foreign objects - something they avoid actually demonstrating because it definitely sounds bad.
@@RaquelFoster to be honest phygital is the next stage of electronic music, plus Berlin has legal weed which allows Japanese stakeholders to steam off some of the corporate BS. It’s a synergistic win-win situation in my book. God speed!
@@RaquelFoster i bet this is how it happened for real
Berlin is the main center for a lot of electronic music technology. Be it Ableton, native instruments, bitwig, ton of smaller companies and a ton of parties and concerts that push the boundaries of electronic music.
Very interesting 👍
I will buy one for sure.
I am not sure, Fender Rhodes already exists
at this point they should be designing like an arturia polybrute 16 or something like that for 2000 usd less, with extensive modulation matrix, 4 parts multi timbral, digital FX, one wavetable oscillator, etc
“Er war Superstar, er war populär
Er war so exaltiert, cause er hatte flair
Er war ein Virtuose, war ein Rockidol
Und alles rief: "Come and rock me Amadeus"
Falco
nice instrument
I'd buy this iteration right now and never look back !!!! Tats is our Moog /Buchla/Arp/ Smith... etc. Korg you better continue to fund him because he is your/ our musical future! additionally I'd be totally ok with euro rack versions of the monotrons/ monotribe/ minilogue and the volcas! I think that would be huge!?!?!
Hey! Please make a midi controller with 2 or more XY-Pads. But make the size of the 10x10 cm or larger.
Brilliant
Nice space
This music is giving me the brown note fr
Best job ever, talk much and say nothing .
Does the Commercial Unit comes with a stick too?
who designed the electribe 2
自分が制作しているヒーリングミュージックに合いそう。販売価格は幾らかな？
Here's hoping for a sub 200usd pricetag. Probably gonna be around 499, though.
Korg is priming us with the video for it to be at least 1,000 USD. It is brand new tech with significant R&D and precision machining. First gen of new tech is always pricey.
I hope you are right though.
At least 1.5k I believe. Very boutique and niche
Hope I'm able to afford it lol
Was at superbooth, heard from 2 different devs they’re aiming for under 1k. Think around 800 if I remember correctly
@@tomk303 the real scoop is always in the comments.
Anyone else was hoping to spot a prototype of an Electribe 3 laying around somewhere?
Thanks for mention it! Korg left alone Electribe fans.
The office is beautiful and the instrument looks nice. I am all for creativity and developping new instruments. But I just dont get that this thing is the result of all Korg Berlins work. It is just a Kalimba with a sequencer. There is no tonal variation in the sounds this thing is producing, which could make it interesting. This is just so clearly a case of the emperor that has no clothes that I am kind of questioning my own sanity watching this but I think I am sane, this is a good looking Kalimba without any change to what a kalimba sounds like. But there seems to be a burning desire of people that makes them want to like anything that is somehow new. But i doubt that a lot of people will buy it so it would be much more honest to call it out for what it is. A not very good idea and a failed passion project.
It’s cool. But a bit confused why so much is being done for this when you have the new kinglets that is sooooooo limited at a high price ?
As much as I love all of this, I don’t think the resonator unit has a broad enough appeal
Also the Wurlitzer has a capacitive pickup
where are the grownups?
Looks Korg want to have a place where their customers are..to be connected to the 'young cool people"
Niceeeeeeeeeee ✅
PR exercise?
Please release some new affordable exciting synths
Like👏👏
Making something because you can - without asking who it is for/whether you should - is something you only do on a multinational’s salary, and with their resources … … … Who is this Phase synth for? Yoga studios? Cyber-monks? Seriously ?! … … … It’s not like ‘vibrating tines’ is a new sound/timbre … … …
Seems they just want to corner some imagined niche, rather than competing where the action is (Prologue was their best shot at that?!) … … …
I’m worried for Korg. 😏
Making something because you can without asking who it's for is literally what every truly creative person does. Tatsuya is clearly a talented creator of musical equipment and instruments. If you don't like it just don't buy it! This is the guy who got me buying korg stuff in the last decade and a half.
@@Schizopantheist Don’t worry, I won’t (buy it). Would just be nice to see Korg making something good, instead (or, as well, even), for us to buy and for them to keep going. Trying to sell expensive raspberry pi s, and this kind of sidetracking, doesn’t bode well for the future of Korg synthesizers.
Uli Behringer watched this video 3000 times and is taking notes, by December he is going to release the clone.
You mean in December he will make an announcement that they will release one in 5 years..And then probably sue any one who has a negative response.
Hopefully! So it will be affordable and the same quality.
Nice Datron 😛
As much as I love this it’s been a pattern of lots and lots of talk about the machine but barely any raw sound. I know it’s in development but still. Six minutes in and they are talking about “ wow we have a book of our custom shelf designs”. “ it’s free” what?
Yeah he seems like a mad genius that kinda got stuck inside his own head... Don't get me wrong, it's cool stuff - but the progress seems difficult/slow. Like, he seems overly conscious about his craft
This is beautiful engineering, but I am not sure it will have much of an impact on music. An old dictum about dogs and engineers comes to mind. I may be wrong though. Only when these things are put in the hands of musicians will we know.
Give us 5 new Volcas, weird stuff like the Drum and Modular. Not interested in an expensive electronic Kalimba.
Little toys ! Real is Moog *
yep, thats gonna tank.
His other work has been succesful but that was done in Japan.. This looks dodgey though!! lol
It's incredibly creative and innovative work. I like the idea a lot. But it seems to have limited applications in sound design, and I'm not even sure I like the sound of it that much.
Incredibly creative and innovative? I don't think it's incredibly either. It's basically putting pickups on a kalimba.
don't be pessimistic! :( it's cool that something new is being tried instead of the same pool of recycled ideas since the 70's - 80's
Are you ok?
"welcome to korg berlin", first shot is of a mini moog... hipsters can't do anything right ❤
Next to a PS-3100 tho
Still sounds bad. Jeeezzz. What a waste of resources.
Keep your words soft and sweet as you may have to eat them.
@@milk_bath Just get a kalimba...
who should buy this terrible sounding marimba with an amp? 🤷🏼♂️ a 2 years Berlin office - a diversionary tactic for their current overpriced recycling devices?
cult vibes all around
What a dork
Wish you guys would stop dropping acid and work on a proper analog synth that stays in tune.
There are hundreds of analog synths to choose from. Why haven’t you bought those?
I kinda like how the regular old Minilogue drifts slowly in its tuning... and you hit this sweet spot of "just right out of tune"... and then, if it drifts too far, you either hit the key combo for tuning (I think it's Enter + Write? It's muscle memory, I don't read the labels) or don't play for a bit and it tunes itself.
I'd look to Novation or Sequential if you want an analog polysynth with the tightest tuning. IDK about Arturia, maybe them too? There are options, if you want that. I think Dreadbox and Moog usually have wonkier tuning than Korg, which is in between IMO.
Someone needs to sample themselves saying this and turn it into an analogue beast of a synth tune
Korg is wasting the vast amount of money on this guy and Korg Berlin. He has spent a year on improving this ridiculous electric kalinba and no progress at all.
one good instrument can change the world
@@bakerbakerbaker305 It won’t be the one. That Kalimba thing is so limited as a synth and it is no volca. Also expected the price to be boutique synth high
@@user-rh2cskI wish it was more of an advancement on the Wurlitzer/rhodes concept than the kalimba direction.
Watching second time but this guy has an inflated ego but not much creativity Spending more than two years and just coming up with this Kalimba disguised as an analog synth? It is a piece of garbage.
lol and you're wasting your life posting angry youtube comments
Not impressed with this Kalimba Thing either.