The Korg Triton Pro X in 2022 | The Ugly and Heavy '00's Icon 

So now everyone is using a touch screen on their phones, but Korg had this figured out more than 20 years ago! That's innovation in my book!

Am I the only one who actually think this is a beauty? I actually love the look of this “tank”. I have started to collect these mid/late 90s synths! 😎

My beloved silver surfer! Very special synth for me. I own the studio 88. Top of the line. Even if you don’t care for the sound, it makes a great keyboard to go with whatever modules you enjoy. The arpeggios are really unique, and you can even write your own. My only gripe is that the filter is a bit thin. The triton also has so many single cycle wave forms that programming on it can be very complex if you want it to.

@alamomusic, I disagree. I like Triton which is the korg Triton studio 88. And the classic Triton is not ugly it's good. I still love it.

Korg has been the king of workstations since the M1, in my opinion. They had touchscreens 20 years before Roland and Yamaha, user sampling, VA, physical modeling and digital audio in a workstation before anybody else(major)I will give it to the Kurzweil K2000 for its early VA and user sampling.

I feel like by the early 2000s, keyboards no longer had a distinctive 'sound' that was recognizable from popular songs. The synths of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s all had unique filters and oscillators and architectures that gave them each a distinctive sonic fingerprint. But once high-quality samples became the norm, everything just sounded like a rompler. Combine that with the bland visual aesthetics and uninspiring performance/sound design controls, and I have a hard time seeing these 00-year workstations coming back into fashion. Totally prepared for the obnoxious gearhead kids of the 2030s to prove me wrong however.

I bought one from a friend for 150$. He got it from a thrift store for 50! It's amazing and the reason its so heavy is because of the weighted keys.

I owned both a Trinity and a Triton and I honestly thought that the Trinity had more high end, not to mention its superior multiband filters. Everything else was better on the Triton including increased polyphony, much improved more responsive touch screen user interface, much improved sequencer and fx routing, sampling, dual arpeggiators and extra outputs and better output routing amongst other things. I used just my Triton Classic with fully expended sample RAM, MOSS board and PCM01 and PCM02 expansion boards to do full music productions using just its excellent built in sequencer!

I’m totally with you on your assessment, KORG, darker, grittier more bass heavy. Yamaha, all about the brights, highs, sparkly. Roland, right there in the middle. Personally, of the big three Japanese manufacturers, I’m a KORG guy. Side note, the MS series from Korg SHREDS! Lots of highs, but still (good n) dirty.

I still have my Triton Studio. It’s an awesome machine, but you better be a weight lifter if you’re going to gig with it. It’s sitting along side a few other heavy beasties…..a Yamaha SK-50D, and Yamaha CP 30, an SY77, and a Roland JV 1000 and a few others besides. Oh yeah, and then there’s the 32 note pedal board that sits below the Triton. I used all of these on stage over the years, and love them all. Take them out and gig with them today? No thanks!

The 88 key versions of any korg workstation from that era were always ugly and bulky, not the same story with the 61 and 76 keys versions, those were the sexiest and best good looking keyboard you can ever buy on that time. Also it was the most popular. Still got mine.

Triton was an extremely successful line for Korg. Original Triton (later known as the Classic), Triton LE, Triton Studio, Triton Rack, then Triton Extreme. There was also the Karma, which was based around the HI engine, but with a mutant arpeggiator on steroids. I had an Extreme 76 for a while, and I too, found the overall tone really bass-heavy, almost thin in a way. It did have the 12AU7 "Valve Force" tube, which to me, didn't quite help much in warming up anything. I did like the pads and strings more than anything else. A lot of the multisamples sounded like they were recycled from the Trinity (guitars, some strings, brass.)

I never owned a Triton but i tried the vst and thought the sounds were really good.

Had one when they came out! Loved it! At the time it was pretty amazing, but not as cool as the Trinity. Silver synths were pretty awesome.

Great workstation. I've got the korg micro x is a 2 octave keyboard with all the triton sounds. Its a beast

To my ears I loved the sounds that came out of the Korg...I would pick one up for cheap and I'm not even a pianist

Bruh crazy. That keyboard looks awesome. All of Korg boards be looking good. This must be a Yamaha guy

Triton forever has a place in my heart, every studio can use a triton rack imo. Great vid as always

They are so heavy because the keybed is mounted on a thick slab of particle wood

I rather like the clean silver look of my Triton Studio ST 88... However, he's not lying, down mixing this thing has always been a chore because the mid to low is SO heavy and often you can't even EQ it out! But, that said, what it offers as a sounds palette is amazing and yes, it weighs about 80 pounds... Built, indeed, like a tank. I think that's because of the way Korg designed the chassis. They knew this thing was gonna be toted around and it had to be tough. I've seen various Korg boards get dropped, get soaked, and even in one case, get airborne, and.... They. All. Still. Worked. *PERFECTLY*. I love my silver tank!

This SYNTHS Samplers are no to cheap nowdays..my friend. On the contrary they had become collector music gadgets and Many still using for retro classic real sound and tones... I tell you as a Musician - producer and looking around I assure its difficult to find those Korg as "CHEAP". Mines are very well keep it and for sure are not in my mind to let them from the music station. Thanks for your great videos and continue your great content. YUK01

I think it's beautiful, at least to my eyes, I like it!

This Keyboard it's extremely beautiful.

Got the motif 88, and I can agree on that, it's just monster size and weight. Metal box on wooden plate with hammer keys.

I disagree I love the way it looks. Early 2000 keyboards are the best

One of the best synth ever build! You must understand sound to appreciate this synth! Play cover songs than you will understand more!

It's a great looking synth if the unsexy benchmark is the presenter's appearance.

I had a Triton, and you're right... it weighed a ton. On top of that I hauled it around in an SKB flight case that added to the weight. So unwieldy. Another interesting Feature that you didn't mention, was that you could get it with a CDR built in, so you could output CDs from the synth. Mine had that option. I also do recall the sounds being very dark. Before that I had a Korg X3... That synth was brilliant! I wrote so much music with that synth. I was hoping to continue that with the Triton, but I just didn't feel it. Unfortunately, my Triton was stolen from me, but luckily the place it was stolen from had insurance... So I was reimbursed. However, I didn't buy another one, picked up a Yamaha Motif ES instead, and never looked back. The Motif, was lighter, and had a better sound set for me.

Nice video. Thank you. 👏🏻

Whats heavy for you? 30 lbs?

I have a Triton Rack which I purchased a couple of years ago for $500 Australian with two surprise expansion cards in it that weren't mentioned in the listing. It was a popular synth amongst metal bands with symphonic or electronic elements in the early 2000s, I wanted one then but couldn't afford it so I got one now. I think it has a sound. I also have a Roland U-220, JV-880 and Yamaha MODX and I think it slots between the 880 and MODX aurally in terms of the complexity of the synthesis and sterility of the conversion. It gets used for sure. Can't say whether if I had an XV-5080 from the same era I'd still use this or not, but I have my eye out for one so I plan to find out.

I love it 🙌🏽

So, are there any regular piano sounds (grand, etc)?? Is it weighted keys?

88 weighted keys are going to weigh a ton, full stop. These had fantastic expressive capabilities despite being "unsexy". I had a T1 workstation which is the predecessor to the X series and Tritons.

I remember back in 2002 I wanted a triton studio, but could not afford it, so I got me a triton Le instead ...

Oh you haven't met the Korg 01/w ProX. Its sheer death wish to gig with. I used to have one and now loaned it to a talented starter who can't afford a 88 key workstation yet. But it has some sounds that no korg has yet been able to match up

The sight of it isn't of much interest to me, it's the SOUND... Thomas Dolby is probably watching this video smiling. Haven't been over there to N. Main and Martin in years, used to get bass strings and 1/4 jack cables there. I remember when Alamo sold vacuum tubes, yeah I'm that old.

Another comment. I had a Triton studio 88 which I believe had some other programs and such in it. I still love the sound of the Triton and the Trinity. I had a Trinity version three pro X as well. I have both smaller versions of it now having a Rack version of the Trinity and the micro X, which is like a little desktop 25 key version of the Triton. And yes, the Triton studio 88 and the Trinity Pro X were both heavy instruments. I have a nautilus 88 and even though the build quality is still really good on that instrument, it is much lighter and easier to transport than either of these units were. And I definitely agree with what you were talking about the digital analog converters and such. I have played around with software and emulation of the Triton sounds before, but it just for some reason doesn’t sound quite as good or quite as original as coming through Triton hardware. When I had my triton studio, I played in the worship team at my colleges, campus group, and everyone hated it when I would bring up sounds like the romance piano or the Phantom of Tyne or the 90s piano. Which, by the way, those were three presets that I probably overused. But then again I’m that weird ball that still thinks a Yamaha DX seven has a place in new recordings as well. By the way, that is something I truly love about the nautilus. Incorporating the mod seven sound engine so if I combine it with the micro X, I pretty much have modern pianos, modern emulations of electric pianos organs, and such, those wonderful Triton sounds, some nice analog synth sounds, And of course those beautiful DX seven electric pianos. Oh yes, and I do have Roland RD 1000 and Yamaha CP 70/CP 80 expansion banks installed into the nautilus as well. Those are some more piano sounds. I can’t get enough of.

It's a beautiful piece of equipment still is

I have always preferred black equipment, back in the day I wasn't keen on that fake silver and light grey although I have slightly warmed to silver over the years however I do like the styling of the Yamaha Tyros keyboards as I am considering possibly buying maybe a Tyros 4, Tyros 5 or Genos. But personally if I wanted a Korg I would choose the 01/W over any Korg keyboard. If I was buying a Korg Triton I would definitely choose a module version, same for the 01/W or even an M1 but with the 01/ and M1 modules versions are rare.

Sold my Pro X today because I didn’t use it enough but the keyboard is woah!! I’m planning to get a studiologic sl88 for a master keyboard. I have other synth which are sufficient

I LOVE my M3!

I have a 76 key that I hardly use and I just can't bring myself to sell it. I came here for inspiration to make it my main Studio controller

That's kind of funny I came across this video I was trying to get rid of Mines but I'm going to keep it because I have something vintage and something new sounds on a korg unbelievable and it will come back in style so it's nothing wrong with having vintage and that thing is going to be worth some serious dollars give it time that's a fine wine

I have over 30 keykeyboards I like the deferent individual sound keyboards have thats inspires me to write songs I don't like every song to sound the same

Great piece of kit.

The Pro X is ridiculously heavy, that is correct, but the regular version is much smaller. For the price you can get this thing at today, it's ridiculous. The patchs might be dated, but the editing capabilities are amazing, some of the strings sounds in particular are gorgeous to this day, as well as the basses and the pads are phenomenal. You can get a regular one for as low as 500 CAD!!!!!! Just the sheer quality of the keybed make it a crazy deal at this price. Not really any usefulness in having 88 keys for such a distinctive cinematic and "paddy" synth IMHO

I bought a Triton rack a couple of years ago, to get a good stash of "standard" digital sounds, but already after a couple a days I started to get seasick, as there's loads of really terrible loop points in the pcm samples... Sold it to a guy who had a Moss card and needed a host for it, he probably got good use of the machine thanks to that card instead...

Personally I think ugly’s a bit of an exaggeration but each to their own of course. Now a 61-key version of this placed on a sexy Ultimate Support Apex stand is a winner! 😀

From a music standpoint it really makes you wonder why Kong made this keyboard synth because it has a lot of older sounds and that is noise but the sound profile and how based it really is makes you really start to wonder if they did this to make people decide you know if you only have this much room for a mix how much can you fit in and how much it to much for a whole mix down and what is the limit you can push it to with out going over the limits of what a mix really is but yes like you said this is the best time to get one and even just because it is old does not mean you could just get one and then just reselll it later when they get back in to style

i use one of these live and its great

I don’t think it’s that ugly. But it’s not exactly pretty. I salivated over this in the shop in my early 20’s. The whole luminescent blue display was very impressive. They cost around £2000 so it was way out of my reach. The man in the shop explained to me that it could blend two patches together to form a new instrument. So there’s a lot of potential in sound design. I tried to buy one cheap from an online auction and got tricked. I only lost £50 though.

Having only been five or six years old, when these came out, and having been a piano player/keyboardist from a young age, I always stop. I guess I could never stop because I have always respected the sound. Zach Harlan I think what you’re talking about Yamaha at 16 minutes. Cleaner sound. All the Roland, I believe yes. It’s about all the years that I’ve had, I have pretty much had HomeCourt here. Wax now. Period.

Did the Pro X have the same presets and sounds as a standard Triton (without expansion cards) ?

I saw one in my local guitar center extremely dirty, scratched up and faded for about $1,500.00 crazy.

Hello i love the Triton ProX😍, I have two of them 88 version, and i love the sound of the Korg Triton, I think it was a Masterpiece in this Aera when you have the EXB 01/08 Piano Board. Grüße aus Deutschland.

Es un hermoso tanque platino, un clásico.

Would have helped to name the patches played and effects used etc

I saw this one being sold for about 500 in the local market. Would it be crazy if I bought it as my first ever keyboard?

What's ugly about it?

Korg Triton, one of the best keys ever made!

I do want to try the Triton Rack

Please review the roland jupiter 80

Extreme with the added MOSS Board is more than capable of sounding old skool (and with added FX to blend-up those tones). As ever - ingenuity and creative thinking gets results way past Factory presets.

It's not ugly, just look at the keys from that era. Korg broke that boring trend of every synthesizer being dark. Actually futurstic, although heavy as hell..also, weighted keys and touchscreen ?

Couple hundred dollars??? Where do I sign up?

It’s great for electronic, dance, and ambient music. I have a Roland Fantom X as well, which sounds stiff and stale. For real instrument sounds, the Yamaha Motif ES was superior, but it was too hifi and trebly/sparkly. Better live instrument than for recording.

Heavy... yeah that the thing. I don't want synths to be heavy anymore, even my Yamaha montage 6 is TOO heavy for me, the MPC key 61 a little on the heavy side with its 8 kilos, but not as heavy as this 62.83 lbs (28.5 KG) monster Triton Pro X thingy. And that abysmal display, ugh. Well, 500 bucks or less IS a steal so if you got the space, why not? Not me...

I wonder if the aftertouch still works ok after 20 years ...

beauty is in the eyes of the beholder haha

I think the keyboard is from Yamaha

I had one is very sexy not that heavy. I have an oasis now both of them were 88. I’ve had a classic TR the LE still the best keyboards on the market

My man Rick Moranis with the truths

I’m sure it looked great next to a row of PowerMac G5s… Didn’t Yanni have of dozen of these on stage?

DO THE Z1!

Great Video! SUper Presentation als always!

Good demo. When I see keyboards like that I know I am soooo not the target demographic. I generally don't like ROMples because 99.9% are "close but no cigar" so out of hundreds of sounds there might be a handful I would consider using. The only ROMpler that had any sounds that actually excited me was the Roland U220. Unfortunately I made the mistake of settling for the Proteus/1 which just wasn't in the same league as the Roland - it redefined "meh". Ultimately I want to create my own sounds and ROMpling really isn't the technology for that and all the bells and whistles like MIDI sequencers and audio recording in a bloated box with more keys than I need don't compensate. I'm sure this monster will find a loving home, just not mine!

I don't think the rompler workstations will ever be worth much. Not a fun of the sound either, I prefer roland sounds, Korg always sounds thin and its a lot of work to make them not sound that way.

EPianos and wurlies are quiet nice, piano is useable, organsounds are bad except the M1 organ imo. Synth sounds and brass are ok, too.

Is the Yamaha MM8 next? lol

0:42 You’re no oil painting yourself mate 😉

It's a fantastic midi controller keybed with pretty excellent touch and responsiveness. It's a really dated rompler with (imho) shitty sounding master effects. Where the Korg sounds shine is for textural pads with a lot of movement, the onboard master EQ is really useless, but if you put this into a good mixer with three knob live EQ, these sound amazing. Sound design on these sucks. Menu diving with the crap touchscreen and the crap push buttons sucks. God's Bathtub is the killer Triton patch. It's only a two part combi. I start with that and add a few more parts and rebalance with combi level adjustments and it's an insanely great starter patch for any kind of cinematic or worship pad use. God's Bathtub plus strings. Awesome. God's Bathtub plus Analog Synth Pad. Excellent.

Since when is great music instrument judged by looks? Is that only American thing that everything and everyone is judged only by appearance ? For a musician it is important how it sounds. For a poser it is important how it looks. For fucks sake...people are just fucked up.

WHAT ABOUT ....Trinity ...Trinity V3 ....Trinity plus....the most diferend sound engine of all korg synths right?

0:41 I don't agree with you, I think exactly the opposite, I think its beautiful. Heavy? My Kawai MP8 II wants to say hi. Btw I always like Trinity more than Triton because of doubled filter architecture. And when I got V3 PBS-TRI version, I decided to not sell it and stayed with Trinity. But, UI was faster on Triton and having dual arp in Triton is something I would like to have in Trinity.

I’m not a fan of those rompler workstations. I understand that they are useful for people playing in cover bands and people who need good piano, electric piano, organ and orchestral sounds. And because they are so cheap, those older workstations might be a good alternative to a hammer action 88 keys midi controller because they usually have really good hammer action keyboards. But there’s a reason why they are so cheap, almost no one has enough space in their studio for a behemoth like that.

Not a super useful review for those of us maybe considering this as an option for purchase and wanting to know about features of the model and what it can do before buying a used one. Repeating over and over how ugly, heavy and tank like it is was not useful. Any specs regarding speakers, audio in/out, microphone capability, connectivity, etc would have be useful facts to know.

Hey now, it’s a silver beauty.

Heavy?? Ever cart a Kurz 2000 around?

Smash this vessel with a sledgehammer & do a review of the Triton Collection software...please.

Moss moss moss

Unsexy its a beauty!

Sorry Zach, I call out people when they support channels that have a negative impact on your channel. There is a certain group that attacks channels like yours, other content creators, all because the ring leader, a well known troll, wants to stir up negative narratives rather than just be a positive person in general. They are hell-bent on creating as much toxicity as they can, when they have very little to offer themselves. The old saying *if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all* comes to mind.

How dare you call the Triton ugly

This guy bascially has problem with all Korg synth. I'd rather watch demo by musictrackjp.

Why tf is he doing a review on something he doesn’t even use shit up dude

I'll take it off your hands seeing as you hate it so much.

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You sound like a hill billy when you pronounce “behemoth” as “bow-he-muth”. Don’t use words you don’t know how to pronounce Poindexter, your glasses belie your level of intelligence.