Finally a brand that doesn’t copy other products but rather tries to experiment

Always a pleasure to see Tats showing off his projects. He seems so down to earth and approachable, and so very passionate about his work.

I'm so delighted to see Korg continuing with this project, and that it's quite experimental and unique in nature. It's more kalimba than electromechanical piano currently. I'd be interested to see if/how then can introduce more notes, with midi control. Maybe using nanotechnology, tiny physical resonators, a full 8 octave range of pitches. But that's a different project, much more complex, and the simplicity and limitations around this one are part of its charm. I'd definitely want to be able to tune each note in this version, and it should be microtonal capable. An electromechanical Lyra kalimba with sequencer, packaged in a piezo noisebox

sheesh those drone holds could probably move rocks! Bravo KORG. Wow setting up as a "prepared" kalimba is superb

I absolutely love it! Tatsuya is a bloody genius, and with his team, he's exploring new ways of making musical instruments. Acoustic Synthesis is a great link between classic vintage instruments of the past and digital ones, bringing the uniqueness of the physical human interaction with the instrument to shapes the sound.

I love this guy's work. Phenomenal engineer.

This is the doorbell we waited for.

The lateral thinking used to create this is impressive love it already

Keep going Korg! This is a really interesting instrument…

Finally Tats is back... looking more Johny Depp-like than usual

At last, something new and inspiring! Credit to Korg and its design team.

I love this, and I hope they keep the aesthetic as it is. I can't wait for this to come out.

Kind of like a Rhodes with a Sustainiac. Nice!

one of the most interesting instruments ive seen in recent memory. this has incredible implications. id love to see even further "superimposed" components for processing, in addition to the vcas, such as analog filters and maybe some sort of modulation to the electromagnetic "exciter"

Thank you! I’ve been eagerly awaiting some news on this one. Was excited when Korg Berlin posted they’d be showing the new version this year. Thanks for helping us hear how it sounds!

Oh Korgy Korg Korg Korginators...run with this! So much fun :) love it

This thing would be so fun running through effects pedals. Its really cool Korg is letting them explore this kind of thing and actually innovate some unique ideas.

I want this so bad. So nice to see such a fresh idea from a big company

Looking forward to this. Well done.

Beautiful. So glad to see this idea keep being developed. I'm a huge fan of the combination of accoustic and digital elements.

Wow what a brilliant instrument!! ❤

Looks really promising. I definitely think it could be a great addition to my setup. ❤

Love the mirror finish

I think it's a great effort. I'm almost never excited about hardware things. This looks great.

I love the ideas behind it and it looks to be developing really nicely.

OMG, i can remember the first prototype presentations. This is very cool. Love the interferences when holding multiple notes.

Always glad to see Tats in another video! His MonoTribe, OG Minilogue, and Monologue are some of my favourite Korg gear of the 21st century. Really enjoy the Volca Kick and Beats as well.

Thank you Starsky Carr and KORG :)

super cool concept!

I have been wanting this since I found out about it

Fascinating!

This is SO cool!!!

This is beautiful!

Such a COOL device. I love how innovative Korg is being with this thing!

this one is so amazing and inspiring

it's cool, dont know i'd buy it. but korg does interesting things from time to time. this guys a treasure

Wow, I love this

cool idea, beautiful in chrome - almost feels like something that should have come from Soma - thanks Matt

i havnet been this psyhed about an instrument in a long time!

I for one really like the concept behind it, it really speaks to me. It's limited and flawed but that's exactly the reason I like it. There are more flexible and "powerful" options out there for more pragmatic uses but this has a very unique character to it that I would love to have in my setup

Been waiting for an update on this since last year's show. I already want one even though it doesn't exist yet and then we find out that it will feedback as well!!! :) 👍

That’s amazing

Very awesome!

this man is sooo smart !! great mind !! Also, love korg giving him the resources for all this

Looks fun!

Something different is something good. Sounds awesome

This is a cool percussive/synthesizer type device, looking forward to more developments.

This is soooo cool!

This is so cool! ^^

Now that's cool , I want one , looks beautiful

Genius product, korg❤❤❤

Having an lfo modulate the magnetic hammer at audio rate would take this to an unpredictably incredible level. Electro-acoustic FM *chef kiss*

I'll always love korg for bringing out the volca series and bringing hardware synths down to earth.

I love it.

amazing!

I'm really looking forward to further development!

super interesting module, I have been watching all the phase5 videos from last years sb, and seeing it further develop, im hopeful to hear future demonstrations of the phase8, with alternate resonating vibrations i guess it would be, to get different tambres [apart from the adsr aspects seen, which is still cool]. Thanks for showing it

Very nice instrument!

Makes me think of Scanned Synthesis and Column Thirteen by Autechre.. very interesting and hope they keep pushing in this direction

I used to have a door bell with 4 different tone bars in it and a selection of melodies it could play. After seeing this, now I wish it I had a chromatic door bell ...

Excellent sound

tats the man. honestly we need more volca shaped boxes asap.

Ohh yeahhh ❤

Very interesting!

Magic synth.respect

I like this!

Very cool... It's come a long way since version 5. It sounds great!

love this guy for doing the volca modular. amazing instrument. this thing looks very Koriginal. sort of handpan but compact.

brilliant.

I love that they are chronicling their journey at various stages of prototyping. I hope something production comes of this, for now we wait... gosh it's sort of like an electronic kalimba that can take midi input. Really amazing. I've loved seeing electric kalimbas used as source oscillators to feed into filter and effects boxes.

I love this, it's cute as heck.

Really cool device! I hope I can afford it when it comes out. 😻😻

Very cool.

Love it. 2 please.

So cool

I would love to have one. It is immensely cool.

I think this is cool - I'm interested!

This is the most exciting instrument I have seen in my 17 years of playing. I hope this comes out to production. Also about the choice of floating or not, you could incorporate a physical damper lever giving the user to isolate that sound or let it reverberate on the enclosure. Just a thought, this is so cool.

Bro I just got on the train I can't believe this video is already up 😭😭😭

super cool

Legend

very interesting !

Great!

this would be amazing !! no doubt !! this guy is tallented with all those volcas !!

Wow very cool

Thats cool as!

It’s amazing! You should add modulation inputs for sustain for example…

What a cute and interesting little synth, it feels like an ultraluxe Volca made love with a Kalimba. Totally something out of my range in a heavy pianoroll midi studio but feels like something that can do wonders for jams or to add during or after the mix itself. One to keep an eye on for sure!

Genious 😮😮😮

I wish Korg would make this actually in the form factor of a Kalimba (with knobs and switches in a separate box). Basically the equivalent of the Moog guitar, but for Kalimba.

Lfo, audiorate to a crawl. Envelope follower in or or audio in to use them as physical resonators,and variable state filter or filters then it would be helpful in sound design and cinematic audio. I love the prepared piano element. It needs at least some serious atonal textural capability if we are remaining in scythe same scale wonderful idea❤❤❤❤

lovely. I'd also go for a large scale unit

Unique!

i CAN't WAIT I WANT ONE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing my mind already reeling with ideas. I'm a professional Percussionist and would love to test this wonderful instrument. TAKE MY MONEY NOW LOL. Seriously though I WANT ONE NOW!!!!!!

Cool instrument

Nice shirt Tats!

tone is kind of like a love child of a kalimba and celesta very cool. velocity seems like it would bring a lot from the instrument. imagine a mechanical keybed with this tone generator , plus knobs. it would be like a rhodes with synth knobs COOL ! ! ! !

Reminds me of the electric kalimba! Like Konono did or the band from around my way, Nomo, they'd use distorted kalimba to great effect! Looking forward to seeing the development.

Yessssssssss!

Reminds me of the Rhodes piano ☺️