Tantalizing first glimpse. What a great design. I recall playing paul Epworth’s and it being one of the most magical synth moments I’ve had. This design is bonkers in a very good way. Peak poly. I’d love to see that come back. Imagine a UDO synth with 50 notes poly. Makes the mind and wallet boggle (can a wallet boggle?)
I love how familiar that whole thing looks. ❤️ As a blessed MS20 owner back in the day, I always thanked KORG for allowing me to walk up to just about any other synthesizer and know how to use it. I’m sure the basics learned with operating an MS10 or 20 carried many a keyboardist into a session career playing all the favored analogs of the day. Thanks KORG!!
Jaw dropping stuff...and I always love his demoes too, for an employee he shows a real passion for the product, very relatable. And doesn’t infuriate Nick much ;)
Yeah it sounds great, and it's not a great value proposition. It's so different from the other current analog polysynths that it would make sense for someone who likes nice things, even if they already have a Moog One, P10, Rhodes Mk8, Minimoog, and so on... it fits right in. You and me, we're not gonna get one, but that's okay. I don't have the room for it... so.eone else could dedicate a room to it, and a few other synths. Everyone's on a different path in life.
That is an awesome thing 😁👏....the “littlest “ of the Japanese synth companies showing its so aware of its legacy! & what a commitment 😮well done to Korg🎉
That really is a fantastic synth. I’m happy Korg isn’t shying away from reissuing old classics in full analogue glory unlike Roland. Too expensive for me I’m afraid but I hope it brings happiness and creative joy to whomever acquires one.
Yeah, Roland is just pissing me off with their resistance to analog reissues. Everyone has done it but them. Korg, Moog, Sequential, Oberheim, ARP…all the old classics back for at least a short while. Real analog synths don’t require a GD subscription to operate, nor disappear when you quit paying for a subscription.
@@entropybentwhistle Behringer is the one doing the Roland reissues, just ignore Roland themselves? 30+ years of irrelevance (towards analogue) and counting.
Oh my goodness, a synth geeks dream synth. I can only hope they produced plenty of them over the years for those of us who might one day be able to afford one.
I had a PS3100 In the early eighties, and had a dream in 1983 that I was able to save the patches on a button! Imagine such a thing!!...Been missing it since I sold it in the mid nineties. Got the Cherry Audio version now, but this has actually made me drool!
MONSTER synth. It sounds amazing. And I’m hearing it on my iPad, imagine being in a studio with monitors, actually playing this thing. Out of my budget, but happy this beast exists. Well done, Korg.
Is it not only a reproduction of the PS3300, but also an additional memory feature of the PS3200? Excellent. Respect to Korg for bringing back to life a dream machine from the late 1970s.
The full polyphony of an organ , with the octave divider, but the power of a semi modular polyphonic synth. This is a beast with some good good sounds.
Sounds lush - 49 voice x 3 , I’m thinking Steve Davis will be wanting one. And because Nick didn’t mention it . . . the PWM Intensity control is situated just below the Signal Generator (waveform) control - you’re welcome : )
Heavenly stuff. Got the MS10 and MS20 but this is a whole different cookie. So lush. Thank you Korg and thank you for not making the mini-mistake again!
It sounds absolutely delicious, and it looks impressive. I think Richard D James has one (he may have all three of the ps synths), and perhaps Will Gregory. They're rare as rocking horse excrement, and I can't ever remember seeing / hearing one in the flesh.
You can hear massive pads from this monster in Klaus Schultze's X and Dune CDs. No other synth could come close to those wonderful pad5. I strongly recommend everyone to listen to those albums.
Does anyone know anything about the "stereo" aspects of this synth? I can't seem to find much about it... I'd expect with the different sections you could perhaps pan them?
On the original you did have access to the individual outs, so you could pan them how you want in your external mixer. If Korg are sticking to the original design with this one then that's what you'll get.
Polyphonic modular on the road. Love the verticality, with modern features, one or two spliteable keybeds, It's the way I think as if I will never have this one, this open the new road trip I think is the Future of Music, as if some sees it as a nostalgia. They are wrong❤
Can’t make out what wood the cabinet is made from. I’ve just looked at a couple of pictures of the original and ‘shock horror’ it was constructed from mahogany veneered chipboard, looking closely it appeared to be a brand called ‘ContiBoard’. I know because in 1979 I made a hi-fi cabinet of the very same material in school woodwork lessons.
I would use this for sound design purposes only and making fully use of its polyphonic power. I have played with Cherry Audio’s VST version of the PS3300 and it clearly gives a great insight to how the actual PS3300 works in its workflow and its patch points. Nothing beats the analog Korg PS3300 !!!!
So the most exiting synth of NAMM 2024 is almost 50 years old and sounds “kaput” in exactly the right way. Makes you think, doesn’t it? Still I’d love to own one.
People/entities who will buy these will not be asking how much it costs. It's not for whining youtube commenters - for those there will be a BS3300 courtesy of Uli's manufacturing conglomerate 😜 It's great that Korg has got the courage and willingness to experiment with the revival of their own classics - bring it on! (how about it Roland? Too busy "not chasing ghosts"? I see 😆.)
Yeah...built to order too. Hmm. I hope they are willing to send a tech to the owner's studio any time there is a problem, because I do believe there will be issues with such a complex piece of gear.
Like the PS-3200. you can't of course store the actuall patch cables in memory. It'll be interesting to see how they deal with that issue (maybe they don't)
There is one more significant difference between the reissue and the original not mentioned anywhere atm: Korg changed the design of the Envelope Generator 1 to ADSR, at the original it was an ADS envelope with switchable Release, that made the Sustain knob control the Release instead of Sustain. But I always thought that the EG1 is the weakest part of the synth and appreciate that Korg changed it to a more usual and handy ADSR.
Looks and sounds amazing. Of course, far out of most people's budget but if you can afford one, all happiness to you, enjoy it! What I'd like to see now is a synthesiser that uses these electronics in a more modest affordable package, say no more than £1500? Perhaps in the vein of the 2600 M but of course in this instance the voice count would have to come right down. Either that or a Polysix & MonoPoly reissue!
$13,000 is almost half what it sold for in 1977 (in today’s currency). They could always bring back the PS-3100 for those of us who can’t get the big one.
Will Gregory showed his off in his YT studio tour maybe, or another similar multi voice vintage Korg. And patch 14 clicked like processor overload in a VST which was kind of weirdly familiar.
Would be nice if each voice (or at least on the master module) had the ensemble effect of the PS3100. Would be also interesting if each PS3010 could be addressed on an individual midi channel.
Thank you again, Korg. Is the new PS-3300 Monaural? I think there are just 1 x 1/4" and 1 x XLR outputs. On the Korg UK website, however, the Demo is in Stereo. So, it was overdubbed and panned, I take it?
This is so beautiful, it's laughable. Not just the synth itself but the fact that exists. Imagine a car show when they straight-faced announced a reissue of the most iconic 1950's tailfin automobile.
Maybe its my headphones and the presets, but it does not sound that good :/ it does not sound terrible either of course, but its not $15k good. Still I love the design!.
I feel with most audio of straight synth sounds from youtube are lack luster. There are a handful a synths that have sounded OK in a youtube video, but when you plug in your headphones directly to them you get blown away. I assume if you were hardlined into this badboy you would be losing your mind, lol.
