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He started with designing the Monotron. He literally reinvigorated the love of analog synthesis for the masses. Korg wasn’t really that interested in going back to analog at the time. Under rated guy for sure.
Tatsuya Takahashi is brilliant, sharp, witty. A beautiful mind! Having him interviewed by Cuckoo (an equally sharp dude) was a treat! Viva Korg-Berlin!
It sounds so good! I hope they make an electric piano-inspired instrument with weighted keys out of it. It would be crazy to have something sounding so organic and potentially feel like a Rhodes to play but yet control the envelope manually to literally turn into an organ when you need to. Both the attack and sustain part of that sound is so good
Honestly I have been dreaming of something like this! Something with many manipulable bands and that is all about playing with the full spectrum of sonic vibration in a direct way.
thanks @True Cuckoo for a cool interview with the legendary @Tatsuya Takahashi from Korg - I'm excited to see how this evolves, as a sort of portable "Rhodes meets Marxophone" device for lots of ambient and percussive output I've been a fan of his work with Korg for a long time - keeping things fun, portable, and sounding good 🙂
Best demo yet! But the addition of samples, as it sounded like was suggested, would definitely be to the detriment of the product, as would take away from a fully analog signal path.
If it was only the option of a DAC into the energiser coil, the analogue signal path from pickups into feedback etc is still fully analogue. Plus, who knows if they’re generating those energiser pulses with analogue circuitry - they could be using a sample of a quick pulse. He did say a lot of the control circuitry was digital for prototyping purposes.
this thing is beautiful! interesting(to me at least) how the focus on resonators in the last few years seems to be more dominant. I was relatively ignorant to resonators and overtones until the a few years ago but I am totally on board!
idea: they could keep the metal parts in the coil and pickup but have the rest of the tine made of wood and use different tonewoods. may sound like a xylophone vs glockenspiel or rhodes ... yeah definitely a harmonic reverb could be made for it, kinda like the palm sympathetic string speaker for an ondes martenot.
Very nice! Imagine you could "modify" the shape of the forks separately with these "keyboard knobs"also , so they all could sound with a different character... So many possibilities... and looking forward too! Greetings!
another idea i thought of is you could have multiple resonators per tine, with mix for each voice, and the secondary resonators would play harmonics of the fundamental... just a thought.
Once they showed him touching the resonators I was sold. I hope they develop towards creating the sound through physical interaction with the resonators.
If the feedback control mechanism can be somehow reactive to our playing, I think that would be good... not necessarily in a linear relationship... but some sort of connection that's more intuitive than choosing harmonics by thinking about it and selecting which ones. It should be "by feel", like a guitar.
When I write "should", I'm really just beginning to think about this, so "should" isn't really the right word. What I really mean is "I THINK I'd like it to be this way". But I haven't tried it, so IDK for sure.
If you try to control it with a keyboard then you won’t get the kind of expression that woodwind instruments have. Hooking this up to a Yamaha WX-7 would allow for much more expressive control over volume, vibrato, harmonics and more.
Like geometric acoustic system, even that it exists. Does it play more than one note at a time? Evidently not. If it’s not polyphonic, you might as well sample each note for poly playback. Or do I not get it?
There isn't a product yet... this is more like a successful demonstration of this "acoustic synthesis" idea, of what they've been working on. He said they have ideas of how to develop it, but no definite products in the pipeline yet.
Actually it doesn’t seem to allow any expression whatsoever, unlike a guitar. Shame. It needs work on the human interface regarding expressive playing dynamics.
I do wonder why they aren't using the term "electro-acounstic" since that's exactly what kind of instrument this is. Trying to coin a new term for a class of intrument that's been around for decades seems a bit disingenuous.
For me, that implies I’d be plucking or hitting something by hand and just picking it up electrically. Also I’d expect a piezo pickup rather than a capacitive one, tbh. The purely-magnetic exciter combined with the feedback circuit take it a step beyond that imo, though certainly it’s using electro-acoustic techniques.
-1 cooko asks fluff q's - can u ask if korg refresh the wavedrum every millennium or so & no more plastic or external psu.. . what korg "berlin" what a bunch of aholes
